hmm what does "sitara" mean you ask? well, it could mean
star in a few languages including Persian, Sanskrit, Hindi,
and Urdu.
but if you take out the last "a", you get the word
"sitar"
which is a plucked string instrument of Indian origins.
according to historians, it was developed during the Mughal
Empiric rule in South Asia 18th century by Khusrau Khan, who
is thought to have derived inspirations from an Iranian
instrument "setar" which was of Abbasid or Safavid origin,
and is also considered the inventor of the instrument.
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for me, the sound of the sitar accompanied by the drones of
a
veena
, and the rhythms of a
tabla
, is exactly how our world sounds. the way Indian classical
music captures human emotions in an expressive manner
(sometimes only with the means of instruments) is forever
fascinating to me.
the sitar is exactly how i imagine the stars to sound like.
a shiny twinkling melody, lingering through the unknown
crevices of the universe
oh my, this was quite a long ramble. well anyway, i chose
this name for myself on the web because i always adored the
word/name "tara" which means star. it just sounds very true
to it name phonetically, you know? i love the human brain so
much somtimes. um...so, maybe you can bookmark this or
something? i dont really know my way around the net, yet. so
maybe ill...