On a carpeted classroom floor at New England Conservatory earlier this month, Huma Rahimi, 25, sat with her legs crossed and a sitar in her lap.
A sitar, not her sitar — an important distinction. After borrowing an instrument from her school throughout her teenage years, Rahimi had picked out a sitar for herself during her undergraduate studies in Delhi, India. She loved the sound, and the designs decorating the instrument.
But that sitar was half a world away, hidden somewhere in Afghanistan with a friend of her father’s. She had entrusted the instrument to him after the Taliban seized control […]
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