India, Feb. 15 -- I ndian sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, from the Rikhi Ram lineage of instrument makers, has made a global name for himself. He has performed at the White House in the United States and has often described himself as the last and youngest disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar. However, his training lineage has now been refuted by the late sitar maestro's daughter, musician Anoushka Shankar. "Rishab is really talented, and he is clearly speaking to people in a really wonderful way. I think there is some misunderstanding about his guruship," Anoushka told Humans of Bombay recently. She added, "We knew him from childhood because he was the son of our instrument maker, Sanjay Rikhi Ram Sharma. So somehow that has blown up into a story of him being my father's last or youngest disciple, which isn't true. But he is super talented and deserves all success with or without that story." She further credited his training, saying, "He learnt very intensively with someone very dear to me, one of my father's senior disciples, Parimal Sadaphal. He also had a couple of very informal lessons with my father, with Parimal uncle in the room."...