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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, the last disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar, in an exclusive interview with Deccan Chronicle talks about how he's using Sitar for mental health. This early tour show allowed us to ...

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 ...