LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his ...

Bhagirath expressed his appreciation to the media, his teachers, family, and mentors during his acceptance speech ...

Popular sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee recently expressed his excitement over the growing presence of classical music in mainstream entertainment especially through the musical series Bandish Bandits.

When Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso, passed away last December there was an international outpouring of tributes and writings on his life and contributions to world music. The Indian maestro, who was ...

NEW DELHI - With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...

George Harrison lacked something in the mid-1960s, but legendary sitarist, Ravi Shankar, filled that void with Indian music. In 1965, nothing impressed George, not even his idols like Elvis Presley, ...

In 1968, the celebrated Indian musician Ravi Shankar performed for six days in Manhattan, bringing his virtuosity on the sitar to a New York audience. That year, this magazine’s reviewer wrote that ...

Anoushka Shankar has publicly slammed Air India after discovering her sitar had been damaged in transit. She is "devastated" and "disturbed" over the mishandling of her sitar despite paying a handling ...