Early Life
Born in Almora in Uttar Pradesh, India, Shankar was the son of Amala and Uday Shankar, popular dancers, and also the nephew of renowned sitarist Ravi Shankar. He studied in The Scindia School. Ananda did not learn sitar from his uncle but studied instead with Lalmani Misra at Banaras Hindu University.
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