DK Bose has stirred a debate, and rightly so. But worryingly, the reaction is more on the hand-wringing side. Several people are holding forth on how ‘degrading’ such lyrics are to the considerable legacy of Sahir, Gulzar and Javed Akhtar. How absurd! Where were such self-appointed minders of the nation’s moral fabric when Sahir’s erotic yearning of a sex worker was put to the tune of a Vaishnav kirtan (‘Aaj sajan mohe ang laga lo’, Pyaasa, 1957)? Or when Gulzar was writing ‘…Apna kaam maal haath aye to daboch na’ (Satya, 1998)? Or when Akhtar supposedly typed in ‘I got to tell you how I feel,/Oh baby! You are the only one for me’ (Karthik Calling Karthik, 2010)?