James Ling
March, 1968
how the west was wonIn 1937, teenaged Ravi Shankar turned up short-haired and coarsely dressed at the home of Indian music master Allaudin Khan. Remembering two years earlier when he and Ravi, then a dancer sporting luxurious hair and Bond Street suits, had traveled together through Europe in a dance troupe run by Ravi's brother, Allaudin cried out in dismay, "Why did you do this?" "It is my sacrifice for our music," replied Ravi, who soon began a long ascetic study of the si...
