Vadodara businessman Bharat Desai's 'Bharatar', the electronic sitar, revolutionizes music with features like tonal quality adjustments. Desai's interdisciplinary research ensures the survival of ...

The sitar's distinctive sound is produced by a gently curved surface that makes each note bloom before it settles, an effect ...

Purbayan Chatterjee innovates Indian classical sitar music by blending traditional ragas with modern elements, collaborating with global artists, and utilizing cutting-edge technology. His approach ...

Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the ...

NEW DELHI – With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...

The new book "The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music: Origin, History, and Playing Styles" (published by iUniverse), from sitar player and author Dr. Swarn Lata, compiles the knowledge and ...

Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, neo-classical musician and sitarist, is all set to unveil India’s first LED-enhanced electric sitar during the India leg of his upcoming Sitar for Mental Health Tour 2026. The ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

As you probably heard by now, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. His music arrived in most American ears thanks to George Harrison and the Beatles, whose interest ...