Ruqiya belongs to the seventh generation of a family of musicians. She has been training in Sitar for the past 30 years under the tutelage of her father and Guru Ustad Usman Khan, an internationally acclaimed Sitar Maestro. Ruqiya’s passion is music and creative arts. She has been conducting music classes particularly in Sitar for the last 20 years and is a senior tutor at NAAD, an institute set up to impart training in Sitar in the traditional gurukul style.