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

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

You may be familiar with instruments like sitar, veena, tabla, harmonium, and even the tanpura. But do you really think you know your country and its music? This article will open your eyes to the ...

The Indian stringed instrument sitar is made from gutted and dried pumpkin. It looks foreign, but the improvisational melodies its player performs is similar to the techniques used by American jazz ...

Next to the sitar, the sarod is the most well-known Indian stringed instrument of classical northern Indian music. Sarod means “beautiful sound” or “melody” in Farsi, and is thought to have have ...

The sitar — an eastern Indian stringed instrument made famous in the western world by Ravi Shankar and Beatle George Harrison — doesn’t get seen, much less heard, often on the Peninsula. Up to now, ...

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 ...