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.

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 ...

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 ...

There’s at least one thing 11-year-old Kailash Ranganathan has in common with the Beatles’ lead guitarist, George Harrison: both were influenced by Grammy Award-winning Indian musician and composer ...

Pt. Rajeev Janardan is an exponent of Hindustani Classical Music and recognised as one of the leading sitar and surbahar players of his generation. A serious musician who believes in preserving the ...