Dadpur, almost 50 km from Kolkata, is a village in Uluberia where the day begins with birdsong and the notes of the sitar. Every person in the village starts their day with their thoughts attuned to ...
Pune: The handmade sitar created in Miraj in Sangli district of Maharashtra is now travelling to the US, Germany and the UK for musicians based there. The instrument was made popular by Pandit Ravi ...
An unusually red-coloured sitar, finely crafted in Vadodara six decades ago, is now part of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The sitar, commissioned by Hasu Patel's parents, was gifted to the ...
Nearly a year ago, an idea hit musician Purbayan Chatterjee — it was to create an electric sitar that would react to every note played on it. He wanted a sitar that would sound alive and at the same ...