Niladri Kumar to auction his 100 year old Sitar for music education

MUMBAI: Instrumentalist Niladri Kumar, who has worked with several Bollywood composers like AR Rahman, Pritam and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, has put his 1

Post releasing 'Head to the Heart', Niladri Kumar to launch new brand 'Stay Up Rooted'

MUMBAI: 41-year-old Sitar maverick maestro Niladri Kumar, who is additionally celebrated as the inventor of the Zitar, has launched a brand new sin

Sitarist Ravi Chary will pick-up elements of Street music for his next venture

Sitarist Ravi Chary has many reasons to be proud –whether it is his title of the first sitarist to emerge from the Goan landscape or having the ch

Go Go Berlin talk India, Kanye West and Sitar

Scintillating Sitar by Zunain Khan on day five of SaMaPa Aalap 2014

NEW DELHI: Sitar maestro Zunain Halim Khan from Mumbai held a scintillating recital, mesmerising listeners, at Ved Mandir, Amphalla in Jammu during

Sitar, Flute and Ghazals enthrall audiences SaMaPa Aalap

NEW DELHI: Ustad Zunain Halim Khan, one of the foremost Sitar players of the present generation from Mumbai, and mesmerizing Ghazal vocalist Ustad

Anoushka Shankar - "I am very old fashioned and romantic about albums"

Taking up where she left off last week, Anoushka Shankar speaks her mind on changing technology and the challenges facing the music industry in a...

Anoushka Shankar - "It's confusing when you feel that you have done a bad job and the listeners walk up to you and say, 'Great show'"

Known for her distinct musical sense, Anoushka Shankar is a sitar player who is contemporary yet traditional and rooted in many ways. She has...

Niladri Kumar - 'To appeal to the audience is a big job'

One of the most prominent instruments of Hindustani classical music, the sitar has been given a new sound by sitar virtuoso Niladri Kumar, a sound...

Irshad Khan - 'Unfortunately there is some kind of racism in the music industry worldwide'

Irshad Khan is considered among the world's best Sitar players and the leading Surbahar (BassSitar) player of his generation. First recognised as a...