A group of music students, some of them holding guitars and other instruments, sat in a semi-circle, listening intently for ninety minutes as the man with the sitar spoke and played for them. His name ...

Since not much has been obtained in writing over the centuries about the origin of sitar, it is but natural to find controversial versions of its origin. I only play the sitar as it exists today, and ...

NEW DELHI: Popular British singer Ed Sheeran shared a lengthy post on social media praising Bollywood musician Arijit Singh and said he learnt to sing in Punjabi and play a sitar from him. Sheeran and ...

In the mid-1960s, George met sitar legend Ravi Shankar and immediately began receiving lessons from him. Indian music took hold of George so much that he left his guitar behind. However, George ...

My uncle Ustad Khurshid Khan has been known as a prominent sitar player across the world. His playing amazed my parents, and so they wanted me to learn playing sitar. It was 1970, when my father ...

By Sonakshi Kohli: ORIGIN OF SITAR Sitar has been a part of the Indian history and culture since the medieval times. It was invented in our country itself and played extensively at the royal courts ...

Mallikarjun Hiremath/TNN A budding sitar player? A future flautist? Or a wannabe concert singer? Learning classical and folk music is the new trend among children and youths here. HUBLI: A budding ...

Ustad Rafique Khan and Ustad Shafique Khan, at a concert recently in the city, treated listeners to an evening of moody, expressive sitar music. The brothers are from a well-established family of ...

DakshinaChitra is organising a sitar concert by Saptarshi Hazra, accompanied by Jain Painadathe on the table, at 4pm on August 6. Jain Painadathe started learning the rudiments of the tabla from his ...