Editing Ravi Shankar (section)

== Illness and death ==
On 9 December 2012, Shankar was admitted to [[Scripps Health|Scripps Memorial Hospital]] in [[La Jolla]], San Diego, California, after having complained of breathing difficulties. He died on 11 December 2012 at around 16:30 [[Pacific Standard Time|PST]] at age 92 after undergoing [[Valve replacement|heart valve replacement]] surgery.<ref>{{cite news |author=Allan Kozinn |title=Ravi Shankar, Sitarist Who Introduced Indian Music to the West, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/arts/music/ravi-shankar-indian-sitarist-dies-at-92.html?pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB |quote=Mr. Shankar died in San Diego, at a hospital near his home. He had been treated for upper-respiratory and heart ailments in the last year and underwent heart-valve replacement surgery last Thursday, his family said. ... |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 December 2012 |access-date=13 December 2012 |author-link=Allan Kozinn |archive-date=16 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216042946/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/arts/music/ravi-shankar-indian-sitarist-dies-at-92.html?pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/12/13/global-home/13shankar-image4/13shankar-image4-jumbo.jpg|title=Photo of Ravi Shankar in January 2012|access-date=18 October 2016|archive-date=12 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512194251/https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/12/13/global-home/13shankar-image4/13shankar-image4-jumbo.jpg|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''[[Swara Samrat festival]]'', organized on 5–6 January 2013 and dedicated to Ravi Shankar and [[Ali Akbar Khan]], included performances by such musicians as [[Shivkumar Sharma]], [[Birju Maharaj]], [[Hariprasad Chaurasia]], [[Zakir Hussain (musician)|Zakir Hussain]], and [[Girija Devi]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Classical legends leave their mark|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-08/music-events/36215627_1_pt-jasraj-classical-legends-pt-ravi-shankar|access-date=9 January 2013|archive-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121065754/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-08/music-events/36215627_1_pt-jasraj-classical-legends-pt-ravi-shankar|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|url-status=dead}}</ref>