When Anoushka Shankar was 8, her father gave her a tiny sitar and began showing her how to handle and play the classical Indian stringed instrument. She slowly warmed to the long-necked sitar and to ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

The springboard for Nussbaum’s reflections on citizenship, religion, education, history-writing and public culture are the events of Gujarat in 2002, whose implications for democracy she explores by ...

Nirmala Rajasekar is one of the top performers of the veena - a South Indian stringed instrument - in the world. She makes her home in Plymouth, but spends three to four months each year on tour. When ...

Next to the sitar, the sarod is the most well-known Indian stringed instrument of classical northern Indian music. Sarod means “beautiful sound” or “melody” in Farsi, and is thought to have have ...

The Indian stringed instrument sitar is made from gutted and dried pumpkin. It looks foreign, but the improvisational melodies its player performs is similar to the techniques used by American jazz ...

India, a land rich in culture and history, has gifted the world a vast array of unique musical instruments. These instruments aren't just tools for creating sounds; they are a deep part of the country ...

When my father was a young boy in India nearly 70 years ago, he began tinkering with a veena, the classical Indian stringed instrument, that he found lying neglected at his home. He taught himself to ...

Dubai: Sitar, the famed Indian stringed instrument, can take a lifetime to master. Yet the resonating, melodious strains of its music, made popular by Ravi Shankar who taught The Beatle’s lead ...