For the world, Pandit Ravi Shankar meant India and vice versa. He took India overseas and brought the world to this country through his music. His death is a massive loss to not just the classical music fraternity and the country, but also to the rest of the world.

By Sidin Vadukut

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Sidin Sunny Vadukut’s middle name should have been “Funny”.
In the Twitterverse, where he has 46,909 (last counted on November 20), followers, it already is: On the microblogging site @sidin goes by “5idin 5unny 5adukut” and in 140 characters (mostly even in just one or four characters) he keeps the funny side up with his random observations and ruminations on anything and everything — current affairs, media, politics, life, culture, travel.