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Sitar Masters
by Ishrat Ansari

With Ustad Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shanker both of India in their sunset years, there are only three sitar players who command      a serious following all around the world:

Khan Sahib Ustad Rais Khan and Ashraf Shareef Khan Poonchwala of Pakistan and Ustad Shahid Parvez of India.

While Ashraf and Shahid belong to a younger generation, Ustad Rais Khan has no equal in his generation anywhere else            in the World. In a couple of years, when Farhan Khan, son of Ustad Rais Khan, makes his debut, Pakistan will have three       World class sitar players. This is unprecedented in our history. We must take this opportunity and present our sitar players           in the best possible settings in Washington DC and New York. We must take full advantage of this cultural windfall.

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