An Indian slide guitar player and creator of the mohan veena. He performs Hindustani classical music and won a Grammy Award in 1994.

He is best known for his Grammy winning album A Meeting By The River with Ry Cooder and other fusion and pan-cultural collaborations with Western artists like Taj Mahal, Béla Fleck and Jerry Douglas, although exposure such as an appearance on the 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival, which was organised by Eric Clapton, does allow for this side of his playing to reach a larger audience.