Anoushka Shankar

reel · Sep 18, 2026

Anoushka Shankar began studying sitar under her father, legendary musician Ravi Shankar, as a child. Today, she’s a 14-time Grammy-nominated sitarist and composer who has spent three decades bringing Indian classical music to stages around the world. Volume UP!

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post · Sep 2, 2026

Kinda chic … to have ADHD and take so long creating this post that the trend is apparently dead long before I’ve had a chance to post it. This took way too long to compile, so here you go!

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reel · Aug 30, 2026

Yesterday I picked up my sitar for the first time after a short trip away, and there was only one thing my heart would let me play. There are but a handful of people who impact us across generations and every kind of difference, and Dolly Parton was one of them. She managed to do it while feeling more like a cherished family member than an imposing, distant figure. I grew up listening to her on my mother’s records, dancing around our living room as a kid, then sobbing to her in the car after my

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reel · Jul 26, 2026

The importance of intersectional collective liberation is everything! Thank you, @gretathunberg The students of 🇮🇳🇮🇳 have inspired the world. #indiayouthmovement

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reel · Apr 7, 2026

Dear Bapi, Happy birthday 💫 I guess this is technically me recycling a birthday wish, since you sent this same one to me so many years ago. But it’s too perfect to resist. Look at your joy, and your sweetness. I miss seeing these emotions play across your face. You would have been a whopping 106 today! But I know you would have still played music with the open mind of a student, and approached life with the wonder of a child. Happy birthday Bapi. love you.

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post · Feb 22, 2026

Time for the annual kids’ birthday post. My Zubin is fifteen today, a fact that absolutely blows my mind, and my little Mo turned a whopping great 11 years old a few days ago! I feel reflective, grateful and absolutely in awe at the gift of parenting, both in its joys and in the rewards of its challenges. Today, my only words about parenting are that it’s my greatest glimpse into infinity. Love that was already more than I’d ever felt has only grown as time went on. Limits to my abilities as a h

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post · Feb 10, 2026

From the moment we landed in Kolkata, the final day of our India Chapters tour was the stuff of dreams. @arijitsingh, you are a giant. Performing with you is a joy and the truest honour. This was a full-circle day, steeped in nostalgia, memories of my very first concert at this same venue surfacing everywhere I turned. And to share that moment with yet another special guest- tabla maestro @bickramghoshofficial was beyond words. He has been part of my journey since my teenaged classical albums an

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reel · Feb 8, 2026

So much more to say later, but for now, my heart!!!! Hearing the one and only @arijitsingh bringing my father’s rarely heard Bengali song to life and then sharing our new music with Kolkata, was truly one for the books 🙏🏾 📹 @maan_boruah @skillboxofficial @redfmindia @kotakbankltd @acrossartists @starkkar

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reel · Jan 23, 2026

After the success of our BBC Prom last August, I’m so delighted to present the orchestral version of Chapters at @concertgebouw, Amsterdam, with @robertamesmusic and @lcorchestra this May. Together, we’ll perform the Chapters trilogy start to finish, letting it fly in a whole new guise. Link in bio to grab tickets! And to get a little taste of what’s to come, watch my BBC Prom performance over on @bbciplayer! @outermostagency

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reel · Jan 19, 2026

Listen now, Orange County featuring Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar.

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reel · Dec 3, 2025

Devastated and truly disturbed by @airindia’s treatment of my sitar. How on earth does damage like this happen without willful disregard? It feels especially sad given that I’ve flown Air India after a long time, and it seems an Indian instrument can’t be safe with them- after all the thousand of flights taken on other airlines without even a peg going out of tune.

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reel · Oct 31, 2025

India! What an immense privilege it is to be celebrating over 30 years of live performance and music-making with you in early 2026. The story that began the first time I stepped out on stage at thirteen years old, continues… I can’t wait to be with you all, performing Chapters - an album trilogy that means so much to me, and which feels like a true representation of where I am now as an artist. 🔗 Link in bio for tickets 30 Jan | Hyderabad 31 Jan | Bengaluru 01 Feb | Mumbai 06 Feb | Pune 07 Feb |

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reel · Aug 24, 2025

There’s so much to come in 2026! Can’t wait to see you at a show. ✨INDIA✨ 30 Jan | The League, Hyderabad 31 Jan | Phoenix Marketcity (Back Area), Bengaluru 01 Feb | NSCI Dome, Mumbai 06 Feb | Drome Arena, Pune 07 Feb | Yashobhoomi Convention Centre, Delhi 08 Feb | Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata ✨LATIN AMERICA✨ 18 Mar | Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico City, Mexico 21 Mar | Ópera de Arame, Curitiba, Brazil 22 Mar | Teatro do Bourbon Country, Porto Alegre, Brazil 25 Mar | Cine Joia, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2

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reel · Apr 9, 2025

All the way back in 2012 I took ‘Traveller’ to this beautiful Lyon festival @nuitsdefourviere. It’s genuinely one of my highlight performance memories and I’m so delighted to be heading back to this iconic festival on 18th July with ‘Chapter III’! For those who don’t know, we toured my Indian-flamenco album ‘Traveller’ for two years worldwide hitting a whopping 99 shows, all in the time immediately after I had my first baby! It was a mad and wonderful time and truly no joke putting a band togeth

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reel · Jan 3, 2025

A Rock Somewhere with @anoushkashankarofficial & @varijashree live in Amsterdam! Our first time ever performing it together in real life. Full performance on YouTube 📺 🪨

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