Shankar

India woke up to a happy Monday morning as desi musicians won big at the Grammys 2024. Shankar Mahadevan and Zakir Hussain`s `Shakti` band won the Best Global Music Album award for `This Moment` at the Grammys 2024. It was the first-ever Grammy award for most Indian musicians, and Zakir Hussain created history with three wins in a night. This was not the first time when our artists have made India proud on the global stage. Since 1968, we have been winning big at the Grammys. As we add another feather to our hats,…

During the Grammy 2024 night, Indian singers Shankar Mahadevan and Zakir Hussain bagged a Grammy for their fusion band “Shakti”. The singer’s band Shakti won the Grammy’s award for ‘Best Global Music Album’ on Monday for their latest album ‘This Moment’. During the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, Indian singer Shankar Mahadevan and his fellow members from his fusion band Shakti won a Grammy award for ‘Best Global Music Album’. Shakti which is a collaboration featuring Shankar Mahadevan…

It`s a proud day for India! As singers Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain`s fusion band Shakti clinched the award for Best Global Music Album for their latest release `This Moment`. Taking to X, Grammys shared the post and wrote, "Congrats Best Global Music Album winner - `This Moment` Shakti. #GRAMMYs." Congrats Best Global Music Album winner - `This Moment` Shakti. #GRAMMYs 🎶 WATCH NOW https://t.co/OuKk34kvdu pic.twitter.com/N7vXftfaDy — Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) February 4, 2024 They…

There’s a chaotic, disorienting quality to many of Adi Shankar’s short films and series like Netflix’s first Castlevania that makes it seem as if the writer / director / producer always wants his stories to leave you winded and a bit rattled. His Konami-approved take on Dracula came with the brand name recognition and exquisite action sequences evocative of the classic games, but in Castlevania, you could still see shades of the high-energy, low-budget Bootleg Universe that first put Shankar on the map. This is even more…

The Trails and Trials of Dugong ResearchFloating at the sea’s surface, equipped with just my mask, snorkel and flippers, I was engrossed in the lush seagrass meadow eight metres below. There were distinct, cleared, serpentine paths between the thread-like blades of seagrass, and I was hoping they were the signs I was looking for. The rest of my team, in an attempt to maximize our chances, were several metres away, breaching the vital buddy-system rule of the sea (always stay in a pair or group). We had been at this for…