After Anoushka Shankar clarified earlier this month that her father, Pandit Ravi Shankar, was never Rishab Rikhiram Sharma’s guru, the Ravi Shankar Centre has also issued a clarification. Trashing Rishab’s claim to be the sitar maestro’s disciple, let alone the youngest and last one, the Centre provided a timeline and debunked pictures previously shared by the sitarist. They released a statement to ‘correct inaccurate timelines, wrong perceptions around the nature and amount of instruction given by Guruji, and confusion around the term disciple.’ Anoushka Sharma had also previously clarified that Rishab Rikhiram Sharma was not her father, Pandit Ravi Shankar’s disciple. Timeline of when Pandit Ravi Shankar met Rishab Rikhiram Sharma Providing context on the timeline of when Ravi Shankar met Rishab and his health, the Centre wrote, “On 3 January 2012, at the persuasion of Rishab’s father, and due to affection for the young child, an informal string-tying took place at the Centre between Guruji and Rishab. Such ceremony was neither conducted as a formal Ganda-Bandhan Ceremony nor was it conducted according to traditional …