Experience a peaceful journey with this immersive meditation video, featuring soothing instrumental music inspired by Indian ...

The sitar’s metal strings result in tough calluses but yield a delicate sound. The instrument – reminiscent of its Western guitar counterpart – is a plucked instrument with strings and 20 frets, used ...

The Beatles weren't afraid to push the boundaries of pop music. A 1965 helped introduce their audience to Indian music via the sitar.

The sounds of the sitar and tabla will echo in List Art Center this Saturday, when Brown students will join in an exploration of Indian music and culture. Raagmaala, an organization promoting the ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- 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 ...

In the mid-1960s, George met sitar legend Ravi Shankar and immediately began receiving lessons from him. Indian music took hold of George so much that he left his guitar behind. However, George ...

April 7 marks the centenary of the Indian Sitar Master Ravi Shankar (1920– 2012), whose interactions with Western musicians, such as the Beatle George Harrison, have been celebrated, although the full ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over ...

NEW DELHI (AP) - 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 ...