Pandit Ravi Shankar playing the guitar? SBI removes social media post after backlash over image

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New Delhi: The State Bank of India has deleted a social media post saluting the late sitar maestro, Pandit Ravi Shankar, on his birth aniversary, after users pointed out that the man in the visual was playing a guitar...

The image was put up on the banks social media platforms on 7 April to commemorate Ravi Shankars birth anniversary..

It had the caption: SBI pays tribute to the Sitar Maestro and Bharat Ratna Awardee Pandit Ravi Shankar along with the hashtag SBICelebratesTheLegends...

Tripathi wrote on X: When @TheOfficialSBI cant tell a sitar apart from a guitar, nor know what Pt Ravi Shankar looks like..

Some netizens also taunted the SBI over the controversy surrounding the electoral bonds scheme, which the Supreme Court scrapped in February as unconstitutional...