Mumbai: Actress Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in Aparna Sen's Paroma.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli sitting in for Terry Gross. Ravi Shankar, who popularized the sitar and Indian music in America, died this week at the age of 92. He befriended the Beatles, gave ...

For more than 50 years, Ravi Shankar has been the man responsible for bringing Indian classical music to the West. He's collaborated with a stunning array of musicians, from The Beatles' George ...

The Internet is littered with all sorts of Meshuggah covers and it's always fun to watch fans play through some of their favorite songs. Some of these videos span the range from guitar, drums, bass, ...

“We’re doing things a little differently this time,” conductor Carolyn Kuan confided at the start of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s “Scheherezade & Shankar” Masterworks concert. Next to the base of ...

Rishabh Rikhiram Sharma, a renowned contemporary Indian Sitarist, has gained immense popularity through his 'Sitar for Mental Health' series. Combining traditional Indian Classical music with mental ...

At the advent of Technicolor, movie posters were plastered with enthusiastic phrases like “Technicolor Triumph,” and “Now in brilliant Technicolor!” Iron & Wine’s discovery of musical instruments ...

Throughout her career, Anoushka Shankar has resisted people putting her music into a box. As the daughter of the legendary sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar, Anoushka is often confronted with ...