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Ravi

[ rah-vee ]

noun

  1. a river in NW India and NE Pakistan, flowing from the Himlayas SW to the Chenab River: a headwater of the Indus River and one of the “five rivers” of the Punjab. 475 miles (764 km) long.


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Musically and spiritually, Ravi had a huge influence on George throughout his entire life.

But that role expanded as Ravi began supplying George with spiritual books to read as well.

“Almost nobody I have talked to, male or female, thinks her gender or pay were significant factors,” reporter Ravi Somaiya tweets.

First up, he got interested in Indian music and took lessons on sitar from Ravi Shankar.

For example, the recent documentary Bully depicts harassment far worse than what Ravi did to Clementi.

In the foreground are the two ravi—a man and a woman in awed ecstasy, with upraised arms—and the adoring shepherds.

Before their front stretched a tributary of the sinuous Ravi with its marshy banks.

The British frontier was extended from the banks of the Sutlej to those of the Ravi.

Fabre quaintly exclaims Jtais ravi de ce savoir assassin; jtais ddommag de mon piderme rti au soleil!

The third verse can be put,—A ravi le tonnerre aux cieux, or aux dieux.

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