Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, born July 27, 1950, in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, known
professionally as V. M. Bhatt, is an Indian Hindustani classical musician and
slide guitarist. Born into a musical family to parents Manmohan Bhatt and
Chandrakala Bhatt, he received music instruction from his parents and trained
under sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. He invented the Mohan veena, a modified
Hawaiian slide guitar fitted with sympathetic and drone strings for playing
Indian classical ragas. He achieved international recognition with his 1993
collaborative studio album A Meeting by the Rive...