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Composer, producer, songwriter and the only female double violinist in the world, Gingger Shankar, talks about film composing, empowering girls and women, and reclaiming the unsung story of the women of the Shankar family, her Grandmother and Mother, two extraordinary artists who helped bring Indian music to the West in the 1970s along with Ravi Shankar and George Harrison. “This story has been written so many time; it’s been told so many times, but we have left out this entire lineage of women. It’s not just my mother and grandmother, there are so many women that are part of Indian classical history that we have no clue. It’s at every level. Their names are not in the archives…”
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