The document is a student's reaction paper on the life of Ravi Shankar, an Indian musician famous for playing the sitar. It summarizes that Ravi Shankar developed his own style of sitar playing based on rhythmic practices of carnatic music. While the student likes the Indian musical styles of ragas and tala, they do not like the cultural ritual of burning bodies and throwing them in the river. The student also comments that while Indian music is the oldest, Filipino music is more accurate.