Pandit Ravi Shankar was unhappy as I was drawing more applause: Annapurna Devi

September 01, 2014 11:27

In the extremely rarefied atmosphere of the finest exponents of Indian classical music, she is a "virtuoso's virtuoso".

Ironically, only a handful of people have been fortunate enough to have heard her play. Now, nearly 60 years since legendary surbahar and sitar exponent Annapurna Devi completely vanished from the public eye (and ear), she has finally broken her silence on why she left her promising concert career and became a recluse: it was to save her marriage with Pandit Ravi Shankar. Read

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