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Watch: This version of ‘Jamal Kudu’ is on the sitar, with trap beats mixed in
Scroll Staff
· Jan 04, 2024 · 01:29 pm
Watch: Scientist uses his sitar to teach audience to sing the ‘Interstellar’ theme music
Scroll Staff
· Jan 24, 2023 · 01:08 pm
Listen: Two sitar versions of Brazilian maestro Joao Gilberto’s famous tune ‘Desafinado’
Scroll Staff
· 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
Scroll Staff
· 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
