Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the ...

Sitar player Purbayan Chatterjee talks about his love for the instrument You are known for amalgamating traditional Indian classical music with contemporary world music genres. What encouraged you ...

Of the many string instruments currently in vogue in the sub-continent, sitar is perhaps the most popular musical device for venting creative melodic expressions. It is sophisticated instrument ...

Have you ever heard a melody that made you stop whatever you were doing — and feel melancholic, sanguine, introspective and ...

A sitar expert in India valued the instrument at more than $100,000, but British Airways has offered just $1,760 in compensation, an amount that has Seshadri seeing red.

Anoushka Shankar’s experiments with the sitar Her latest single, ‘Sister Susannah’ out today, sitar exponent Anoushka Shankar talks about ‘de-exotifying’ the instrument ...

Very few rock bands feature the sitar as a primary instrument, but for Montreal’s Elephant Stone, playing at Trans Pecos in Bushwick on Oct. 22, the classical Indian instrument blends right into its ...

Although this instrument is enriched with value-added features, the sitar timbre does not get affected in any manner. It works as per the requirements of the artist.

Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the Indian musical style.