THANKS to her last album, Traveller, the Indian sitarist Anoushka Shankar is now an international star. When I ran into her 10 years ago, however, and despite her reputation as a child prodigy, she was still very much the daughter of Ravi Shankar, the musician taken up by George Harrison, John Coltrane and the spirituality obsessed 1960s in general, the guru described by Yehudi Menuhin as "the most precious person on earth." It was the senior musician I had been interviewing then, my research much aided by Anoushka's gushing book about him, Bapi ... The Love of My Life. In it, the then 22-year-old fretted that she would never find a man to match him - and this despite Ravi having pretty much ignored her and her mother for the first eight years of her life, the late phase of a chaotic sexual career that he admitted to me had caused others "sorrow" and inflicted "pain and torture" on himself.