The Straits Times
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Published on Dec 12, 2012
 

Photo gallery: Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies at 92

 
 

NEW DELHI (AP) - Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade career, has died. He was 92.

The prime minister's office confirmed his death and called him a "national treasure."