Shankar to create history
Anoushka Shankar becomes the first ever Indian presenter at the Grammy Awards Nominated for time fifth time. Anoushka Shankar will create history as the first Indian musician to present at the Premiere Ceremony. It’s a proud moment for India, with the recent news that Priyanka Chopra will be the only Indian woman to present at the Academy Awards. Shankar is nominated for her classical album Home. She shares the plans for the year, “I am excited to be presenting at the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony and releasing my next album just a few weeks later. I’m happy as it's always been my goal to balance a career between classical and experimental work, and that is exactly where I'm at with a classical album nominated and a non-classical album about to release.”
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After conducting a yoga session with Ramdev, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, is set to participate in XYoga Dubai Festival. Shilpa will showcase her skills for yoga alongside yoga instructor Suneel Singh. She said, “I am a firm believer in the power of yoga. It helps to develop a strong, clear, aware, and appreciative outlook on all aspects of life.” She added, “I think the festival is a great platform to promote Yoga and I’m glad that through this I can introduce the benefits of it to such a large global audience.”
legend calls for racial equality
Amid the growing diversity debate over this year's Oscar nominations, musician John legend has urged his fellow artistes to stand up and use their voice to fight for racial equality in the US while picking up the NAACP President’s Award. “We know that we stand on the shoulders of giants who risked their lives to bring us closer to true freedom. And of course, we are still fighting for freedom,” he said. legend, who also performed his hit song Ordinary people, added, “Today, communities of colour are still being crushed by a criminal justice system that over-polices us, over-arrests us, over-incarcerates us, and disproportionately takes the lives of our young people because of the simple fact that our skin conjures the image of threat and violence.”b