{"id":1421,"date":"2001-12-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/12\/02\/2001-12-02-pandit-ravi-shankar-reminisces-about-george-harrison\/"},"modified":"2001-12-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-02T12:00:00","slug":"2001-12-02-pandit-ravi-shankar-reminisces-about-george-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/12\/02\/2001-12-02-pandit-ravi-shankar-reminisces-about-george-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandit Ravi Shankar Reminisces About George Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow.asp?art_id=1765455588\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, December 1, 2001: Ex-Beatle George Harrison, stricken with cancer, passed away to the sonorous tone of Hare Krishna chants. He was a lifelong follower of Hindu philosophy and was associated with the Hare Krishna movement. By his bedside was sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, now 82, a father figure to Harrison. Ravi Shankar, who in many ways was introduced to the west by Harrison, had an aide call with a statement. &#8220;It was my sitar and Indian religion which connected me to George in the beginning. He was a friend, disciple, and son to me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;George was a brave and beautiful soul, full of love, childish humour and deep spirituality,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;He has left us with so many moments and memories in our lives that will remain with us forever.&#8221; Ravi Shankar&#8217;s daughter Anoushka spoke of a 1995 holiday in India when they spent Christmas and New Year&#8217;s together in Rajasthan and New Delhi with Harrison. It was to be Harrison&#8217;s last visit to his spiritual home. &#8220;He was so Indian,&#8221; Anoushka recalled, &#8220;So comfortably Indian.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, December 1, 2001: Ex-Beatle George Harrison, stricken with cancer, passed away to the sonorous,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}