Music as therapy seems to be emerging as an option, prescribed by doctors across fields. Based on medical advice, patients with arthritis, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, migraine or insomnia are ...

Ravi Shankar, the man who made traditional Indian sitar music popular worldwide, didn’t shoot to fame overnight. The musician—who was born on this day, April 7, in 1920—first began performing when he ...

Ravi Shankar did more than play music. He opened up a whole world. It’s safe to say that his pinging, quavering sitar music was the first sound many in Europe and the Americas ever heard from the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ravi Shankar was 62 when his second daughter, Anoushka, was born. He will turn 90 in a few weeks and she's 28. He's at the end of his ...

Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, recently captivated a Hyderabad audience with his neo-classical sitar music, blending mindfulness and melody. His performance featured original compositions and reimagined ...

Virtuoso sitar player, Ravi Shankar inspired a new fascination with and appreciation for classical Indian music in Western popular culture. Judy Woodruff remembers the man who tutored Beatles ...

W ith the surname Shankar comes much responsibility. The venerable Ravi Shankar, now 91 but still in the full flood of his musical powers, is one of India’s greatest ever musicians, and did more than ...

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 ...

Internationally acclaimed sitarist and a vocal mental health advocate, Rishab Rikhiram Sharma kickstarted his India tour with a spectacular sold-out show in the Indian capital city, New Delhi on April ...