Ravi Shankar, his Guru Ustad Allauddin Khan and Ali Akbar Khan

With his Guru Ustad Allauddin Khan, who he called Baba (literally father). Ravi Shankar first saw Baba in 1934 in Calcutta, when he was 14 years old but it was not until 1938 that he felt the strong pull of music and knew that he did not want to continue as a dancer in his brother’s troupe.