Culture

Thank you. If you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more.

Subbulakshmi, when singing, comes closer to God and the same happens to those who listen to her.

Yeh masjid hai yeh maikhana, taajub is per aata hai
Janabe-e-Shaikh ka naqsh-e-kadam yoon bhi hai aur yoon bhi

(Here is the mosque and there the tavern; What amazes me is to see
The imprints of the holy man's feet going from the one to the other.)

The Caste System is not merely a division of labour. It is also a division of labourers.

The India I love does not make the headlines. But I find it wherever I go — in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert — and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of a lifetime.

You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the State.

The Greeks, in their mythology, were only disciples of India and Egypt. It is not [for] us who were just barbaric savages, when these peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges: astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc.