When Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso, passed away last December there was an international outpouring of tributes and writings on his life and contributions to world music. The Indian maestro ...

The evolution of the Sitar itself is a process of the fusion of two musical, and religious cultures. If the Hindu Dhrupad tradition and its vehicle the Veena had not collided with the Persian ...

A sitar owned and played by George Harrison is going to be auctioned in the United States. The instrument, purchased from a shop on London's Oxford Street in 1965, was used by Harrison during the ...

The Calcutta Performing Arts Foundation and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan very graciously presented ‘Barkha Bahaar’. This Purab Anga ...

Harrison (left) and Boyd (right) went to India so he could play the sitar under Ravi Shankar (middle) A sitar owned and played by George Harrison has been sold for $62,500 (£46,581) in the United ...

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt’s new invention, the Mohan Veena, is a modified version of the steel guitar which blends the Hawaiian slide guitar with traditional Indian sitar, sarod, and vina techniques.

Veena Shankaran is co-director of the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research. Her research focuses on measuring the impact of cancer diagnosis and treatment on patients’ and caregivers’ ...

British musician Jasdeep Singh Degun has said it is "an absolute honour" to become the first sitar player to win a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. Degun, from Leeds, was named best ...

"I didn’t want to live. Not that I wanted to die. But I lost the zeal to wake up every morning,” says Raghu Dixit, opening ...

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Oct 7, 2024Salary increases in IT companies have shifted from the traditional April-June period to later in the year, influenced by fluctuating demand. This shift has led to unpredictable hikes ...