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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

NORWALK — Milan Ganatra is at once a traditionalist and a progressive. For much of his life, the 21-year-old Norwalk man has striven for mastery of the tabla, an Indian percussion instrument comprised ...