Actor Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in the Bengali film Paroma (1984), directed by ...

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 ...

Miner grew up playing the classical violin, but says that as a teenager she was drawn to the transcendent music of the sitar, a long-necked lute with a hollowed-out gourd body. The instrument’s ...

New Delhi, Mar 21: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is planning to learn to play the musical instruments sitar and sarod. The 69-year-old actor, who is recovering at home from his abdominal surgery which ...

An eclectic group of people sat on floor cushions in a Los Feliz home earlier this month for a concert to mark famed sitar player Ravi Shankar’s 90th birthday. In the same room where Shankar played in ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — A few months ago, for what felt like the thousandth time, I tweaked my bedroom/music studio/office into just office for a Zoom meeting. On my trestle desk, I angled my computer so no one ...

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.