Noted santoor player, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passes away

• Indian music composer and santoor player, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passed away at the age of 84.

• He was suffering from kidney-related problems for the past six months and was on dialysis.

•  He died due to cardiac arrest.

• He gave the santoor a classical status and elevated it along with other traditional and famous instruments such as the sitar and the sarod.

•  Earlier the santoor was a little known musical instrument of Jammu and Kashmir.

• Pandit Shivkumar Sharma was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri in 1991 and Padma Vibhushan in 2001.