IAWW India Republic Day Celebration, January, 2012

Akshay, Nikhil, and Sahil performing Raga Adana for India Republic Day Celebration, Jan. 2012
Accompanying them on tabla is Sumi Sall. Well done boys! Thanks, Sumi, you were awesome!



As you can probably tell from the video, Nikhil and Sahil are twins, and Akshay is their cousin. Music runs in the family!

Raga Kedar

Ascend : S m-G-P, M P D N S'
Descend : S D P M P D P m, S R S

Here are some samples of Raga Kedar from YouTube recordings:

Ustad Rashid Khan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgATTQ504ew



Smt. Girija Devi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkROLKtg1Fw

Pandit Budhaditya Mukherji (Sitar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48JydDmMot0&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL32CFD3B19A3969F9


Aap Uhi Agar Hamase Milate Rahe (Ek Musafir Ek Haseena)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6xqrLzZXK4

Bekas Pe Karam Kijie (Mughal-E-Azam)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKII_hcHu7k

Rashmi Shende Presenting Raga Des on Sitar, Dec. 2011

Proud of my students!! Rashmi presenting raga Des on sitar for annual recital, Dec. 2011.



Rashmi is a busy mom running after a toddler!! She moved to Virginia last year and continued her lessons on-line.I am amazed to see her sincere efforts work despite our long-distance student-teacher relationship!! Well done Rashmi!

Seema Chaudhary singing 'Aaj Jane Ki Jid Na Karo'

Proud of my students!! Seema is a busy career woman and a mom. It is wonderful to see her finding time for music and accomplish a vocal presentation in front of the camera!! The song is originally sung by legendary Farida Khanun and the poet is Fayyaz Hashmi.




Seema heads Herbinger Group's US head office. She also serves on City of Redmond Arts Commission and pursues her passion for arts thru various channels in the business and the community.

Teaching Indian Music in USA

Most of my sitar students are children, born and being brought up in America. They came with their parents when they were very young. They had never heard sitar before or had no clue about Sa Re Ga Ma. Actually most of the parents hadn't heard me play sitar or sing before they trusted me to teach their children! Thank you friends!

When these children picked up sitar for the very first time they didn't realize how difficult this instrument is or how rare it is to play Indian Classical Music in today's pop World.

They enjoyed playing it to the point that later they stopped their piano lessons and gave that time to sitar!! Thank you my young friends!!

Akshay Belur playing Raga Yaman on Sitar, Nov. 2011

Pround of my students!!! Akshay Belur playing Raga Yaman, Nov.2011

Nikhil and Sahil's Sitar Performance

Proud of my students!!! Nikhil Shridhar and Sahil Shridhar, performing Raga Bageshri, Nov. 2011 :