When eleven-year-old Neela’s prized possession – a traditional Indian stringed instrument given to her by her grandmother – suddenly goes missing, the young musician becomes involved in a strange ...

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 ...

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 ...