(AP) 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 audiences over a 10-decade ...

Drummer Keshav Batish is a third-generation musician. His father, Pandit Ashwin Batish, is a sitar player well-versed in both Indian classical music and Western rock, while his grandfather, S. B.

In 1968, the celebrated Indian musician Ravi Shankar performed for six days in Manhattan, bringing his virtuosity on the sitar to a New York audience. That year, this magazine’s reviewer wrote that ...

The COVID pandemic and lockdown walloped sitar player Anoushka Shankar hard. The isolation. The unknown. The fear of the future. “I needed a place to put some vulnerable feelings, not to get too ...

The event is scheduled to begin at 11 am at Shiv Nadar School in Haryana's Gurugram. It is open to the public and free to ...

Rishab Shetty and sitar maestro Rishab Rikhiram Sharma have reimagined the iconic ‘Varaha Roopam’ from Kantara into a mesmerizing sitar piece. Blending traditional ragas like Thodi and Mukhari with ...

It’s not surprising that Anoushka Shankar’s music is so diverse. The sitar virtuoso is the daughter of the late legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar and combines Indian classical traditional with ...

On a carpeted classroom floor at New England Conservatory earlier this month, Huma Rahimi, 25, sat with her legs crossed and a sitar in her lap. A sitar, not her sitar — an important distinction.

Skoda Auto India has partnered with global sitar virtuoso Rishab Rikhiram Sharma for a collaboration that blends modern flair with timeless artistry. The result is a film that showcases the harmony ...

The kids at first didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival in the fabled summer of 1967. As captured in D.A.