Ravi Shankar’s daughter, the sitarist Anoushka Shankar, and Indian businesswoman Isha Ambani are set to headline a glittering fundraiser for the British Museum — even as the institution reels from thefts, scandals, and growing calls for restitution of its colonial loot.

According to the Times newspaper in London, the museum will stage its first ever “Pink Ball” on October 18, billing it as a London counterpart to New York’s Met Gala. Tickets cost £2,000 (Rs 2.38 lakh) each, with 800 guests expected to dine only yards away from the legendary Amaravati Sculptures — Buddhist treasures looted from Andhra Pradesh by East India Company forces — while being entertained by Shankar and the Jules Buckley Orchestra in the Great Court.

Ambani, daughter of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani,

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