Zakir was playing a concert with Ravi Shankar in Bombay. Suddenly Alla Rakha, tears in his eyes, whispered something to Ravi Shankar, who announced from the stage that the Padma Shree had been ...

In many ways, he was the perfect successor to Ravi Shankar. In the 1960s, Ravi Shankar (with Alla Rakha) charmed the Woodstock and introduced a generation of westerners to Indian music.

The award was special for Hussain as it was also the first time when Pandit Ravi Shankar addressed Hussain ... My father, Ustad Allah Rakha, was also sitting in the front row.” ...

He Should've Lived Just To Inspire Us | EXCLUSIVE Alla Rakha, a tabla master himself, was a frequent collaborater of iconic sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Many credit him for introducing tabla ...

Eight years ago, tabla maestro Zakir Hussain had narrated how his father Alla Rakha had welcomed him into this world by putting the musical instrument's rhythms into his ears when asked to recite ...