The daughter of legendary sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar sits down with Q’s Tom Power to talk about changing people’s perception of her instrument and her music.

A sitar is a string instrument that comes from Northern India. It's quite a large instrument and the musician usually has to sit down to play it. It looks a bit like a guitar, but where a guitar ...

What the 26-year-old musician didn’t expect is to be almost upstaged by his own instrument. It sounded like the sitar, but where the traditional instrument has a heavy, bulbous base, Sharma’s ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Sitarmakers of Miraj, India, have been crafting musical instruments out of pumpkins for almost 200 years. They are known for making the tanpura, a string ...