“This is a temple not a place of cheap thrills. This is where Saraswati resides. Not a street corner where you whistle as a beautiful lady passes. Please pay our rich culture the respect it deserves.” This is Zakir Hussain—exhorting cat-whistlers in the auditorium. It is an aspect of refined culture to preserve the sacred spaces wherever these be, including of course the psychological spaces, preserve not in a fundamentalist but in a refined and noble sense. ~ RYD   more »