Watch: This version of ‘Jamal Kudu’ is on the sitar, with trap beats mixed in

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· Jan 04, 2024 · 01:29 pm

Watch: Scientist uses his sitar to teach audience to sing the ‘Interstellar’ theme music

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· Jan 24, 2023 · 01:08 pm

Listen: Two sitar versions of Brazilian maestro Joao Gilberto’s famous tune ‘Desafinado’

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· Jul 07, 2019 · 01:19 pm

What I learned about (and from) Ravi Shankar as a child hanging around his music room

Chandrima Pal

· Apr 07, 2019 · 11:30 am

How Padma Bhushan Budhaditya Mukherjee became a defining sitariya of the post-independence era

Arnab Chakrabarty

· Feb 05, 2019 · 11:30 am

How classical music maestro Vilayat Khan reinvented the sitar in its modern avatar

Namita Devidayal

· Nov 28, 2018 · 08:30 am

Listen: That magical moment when sitar maestro Vilayat Khan would break into song mid-performance

Aneesh Pradhan

· Nov 24, 2018 · 12:15 pm

Listen: Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shankar present their interpretations of raag Bilawal

Aneesh Pradhan

· Jan 27, 2018 · 07:00 am

Listen: Two classic sitar recitals by Ravi Shankar in dhamaar taal

Aneesh Pradhan

· Nov 18, 2017 · 07:00 am

Sitar used by The Beatles’ George Harrison auctioned for $62,500 in United States

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· Sep 29, 2017 · 01:24 pm

Sitar maestros demonstrate how the mizrab is more than just a tool with which to strike strings

Aneesh Pradhan

· Jun 17, 2017 · 07:00 am

Listen: A young Ravi Shankar playing in his brother's orchestra during a 1937 US tour

Aneesh Pradhan

· Apr 01, 2017 · 08:15 am

The Padma Shri for sitar player Imrat Khan has caused a stir. But there's nothing unusual about it

Aneesh Pradhan

· Jan 28, 2017 · 07:00 am

Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (1927-2017): The last of the four pillars of sitar’s golden age falls

Sumana Ramanan

· Jan 06, 2017 · 11:30 am

Listen: Sitar maestro Nikhil Banerjee's unconventional, immaculate rendition of raag Bhairav

Aneesh Pradhan

· Oct 01, 2016 · 07:30 am

A trio of sitar meditations to slide gently into 2016

Nate Rabe

· Jan 03, 2016 · 08:00 am