He single-handedly elevated a 100-string instrument little known outside Kashmir into a prominent component of Hindustani classical music. By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, an ...

JAMMU, (IANS) – Nature has equated its gift of lofty snow-clad mountains, gurgling rivers, lakes, tall swinging trees, and fruit and flowers with human talent which really mirrors the beauty of Jammu ...

In a modest workshop filled with the fragrance of seasoned wood, 78-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Zaz continues a craft his family has preserved for eight generations -- the making of the Kashmiri santoor.

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Generations of artisans in Indian-administered Kashmir have been making musical instruments such as the santoor, a zither-like, hundred-stringed instrument ...