Some rarely seen footage of Ravi Shankar teaching The Beatles guitarist George Harrison how to play the sitar has surfaced. The footage has been shared by The Ravi Shankar Foundation alongside the BBC ...

Ravi Shankar has been playing the sitar for more than 60 years, and has long been recognised as one of the great exponents of Indian classical music. The sitar virtuoso is also credited for ...

Ahh, the sitar. You are the most popular and easily recognised of Mother India’s many hundreds of musical children. With you have great souls reached for the heavens all the easier to touch the ...

Ravi Shankar, the man who made traditional Indian sitar music popular worldwide, didn’t shoot to fame overnight. The musician—who was born on this day, April 7, in 1920—first began performing when he ...

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 ...

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 to ...

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Miraj is India’s ancient city of musical instruments. Located in the southern part of Maharashtra, the historic town has been the centre of classical music for over 150 years. Watch this video know ...

When Swayam Siddha Priyadarshi stepped on stage at Medai in Chennai last week for his solo concert Swayam, it marked his debut concert in the city and a turning point in his journey as a solo sitarist ...

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 ...