Sitar player Niladri Kumar, who also invented the zitar, will demonstrate four ragas with different tabla players at the concert later this month

When a child grows up amid notes and cadences, he ought to intone melodies. His father, sitar player Kartik Kumar -- a disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar -- disciplined him to ensure he stood among stars. The 43-year-old Niladri Kumar made him proud; he not only made a name in Classical music, even the film industry received him with grace. Kumar also invented the modified (with fewer frets) electric sitar, known as zitar. On his father’s 80th birthday on