Instead, they are quiet—almost hidden—where the sound of a sitar being tuned or a harmonium being tested ... Long before ...

Going beyond the adulation that Zakir Hussain will continue to receive from his seniors, contemporaries, juniors and fans, ...

IN THE Beatles’ scheme the pop quartet assigned to themselves, Ringo Starr kept the rhythm on the drums. But it was John ...

George Harrison, who learnt the sitar with Pandit Ravi Shankar, played it deftly in Norwegian ... There are left-handed players, of course, who switch the drums accordingly. My first face-to ...

Sitar master Ashwin Batish, long a fixture in Santa Cruz music, returns to the stage New Year’s Eve to headline The 418 Project’s “Gathering in Gratitude” celebration – and he’ll have his son, ...

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar clarifies misconceptions surrounding meditation on the inaugural World Meditation Day. He emphasizes meditation as de-concentration, not concentration ...

OnThursday, four celebrated artists — Sitar player Pt Niladri Kumar, percussionist Ustad Tawfiq Qureshi, flutist Rakesh Chaurasia and table player Ojas Adhiya — presented ragas and rhythms ...

Zakir Hussain, who has died aged 73, was a master tabla player whose virtuosity carried his fame beyond his Indian homeland; ...

but when Ravi Shankar died in 2012 he assumed the great sitar player’s role as chief global ambassador for Indian classical music. The tabla consists of two drums played with the fingers and ...

Global spiritual leader and humanitarian Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will give a keynote address at the United Nations on World Meditation Day on December 21. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will also guide a live ...

Sometime in the 1970s, Zakir Hussain, a young and rising tabla virtuoso, was travelling solo to Benaras for a prestigious concert with the legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Worried ...

In a landmark event, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a renowned spiritual leader and humanitarian, will deliver a keynote address at the United Nations on World Meditation Day, December 21. This follows ...