Mumbai: Actress Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in Aparna Sen's Paroma.

Actress Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in Aparna Sen’s Paroma. Recalling the ...

LOS ANGELES: Norah Jones has given up on mastering the sitar because the instrument left her father RAVI SHANKAR with a twisted back. The multiple Grammy Award winner has revealed she once took sitar ...

Dubai: Sitar, the famed Indian stringed instrument, can take a lifetime to master. Yet the resonating, melodious strains of its music, made popular by Ravi Shankar who taught The Beatle’s lead ...

Having played the sitar on numerous Lata Mangeshkar hits for close to four decades, Kartick Kumar believes that the singer deserved to be hailed as nothing less than a goddess. “She is devi to me,” ...

Interested in learning how to play the sitar, but don’t know where to go? Here’s an opportunity to learn from an experienced professional. Promenade Galley in Lakeview offers sitar-playing lessons ...

Sitarist Ebadul Huq Shaikat is a disciple of Pandit Kartik Seshadri, a senior disciple of Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar. Shaikat embarked on his musical journey by learning tabla from noted ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today praised the Singapore Deputy Prime Minister for trying to learn Sitar - an Indian musical instrument - and hoped his passion would inspire others. "May your passion ...

12 December 2012 • 8:29am Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western ...