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<div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><amp-img  src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/sites/media2/indiatoday/images/stories/2001October/15-metro-today_061112121608.jpg" alt = "" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img></div></div>Sitar player Shubhendra Rao, 36, a worthy disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar, and Dutch cellist Saskia de Haas, 30, an equally deserving student of Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, met and without much hesitation got married about six years ago.<p>Now they have made it a habit to play together in a curious coalescence of cello and sitar. </p><p>Last week at the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bangalore the two gave a calming duet specially composed against the backdrop of the American crisis. </p><p>The American Prez needs to hear this one.</p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Oct 15, 2001 00:00 IST</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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Sitar player Shubhendra Rao and&nbsp;Dutch cellist Saskia de Haas&nbsp;gave a calming duet specially composed against the backdrop of the American crisis at the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bangalore.

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Shubhendra Rao, Saskia de Haas gave a calming duet specially composed against the backdrop of the American crisis at the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bangalore.

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Sitar player Shubhendra Rao and Dutch cellist Saskia de Haas give a calming duet

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Sitar player Shubhendra Rao and Dutch cellist Saskia de Haas give a calming duet

Sitar player Shubhendra Rao and Dutch cellist Saskia de Haas gave a calming duet specially composed against the backdrop of the American crisis at the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bangalore.

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