Task Force on Cultural and Creative Industries: A discussion.
Dear friends,
Mr. Rajeev Sethi, Vice-Chairperson, Task Force on Cultural and Creative Industries had written to me asking me for comments on the Performing Arts. I had sent a few comments to Mr. Sethi, who called back and suggested we take our discussion forward and also invite comments from other artistes. He has very kindly agreed that my reply to him be made known to all of you, who, I am certain will have many suggestions and comments and questions to offer, all of which will make this discussion vibrant and meaningful. Please do write in and use this space to discuss and argue. To post comments on the blog, you will need to register once and after that you can add your comments at your convenience. Please forward this message to others who may find this discussion interesting.
I support your views, clarity and articulation Shubha. There really is not much left to say. One additional thought may be to take stock not only of numbers of performing artists in India but also of the numbers of students of these arts. It may be worthwhile to do a survey of all schools and find out how many of their students learn any performing art at all, within or outside of school. Would bodies like NCERT or NIEPA be in a position to do such a census count? (this may also have common interest with your own recommendations for arts as integral part of curriculum ref. NCF 2005). Thanks for the space on your blog and best regards.
Hi,
To count all performing artists and students in India would be surely an enormous task to ask for more. But, as a lover of this music for now many years, I feel there should be also some supervision of the artists and/or students ABROAD…there are many teachers, performers and students outside India, not to mention schools or instituions. And some times, some who call themselves classical musicians and so promote their music, are not truly and really playing classical music…some times not even near to it. And it so happens that (even though that also adds to promotion of India and Indian arts) the purity and name of ICM is distorted and confusion prevails…maybe this supervision could be done through Embassies, providing there are people with profound knowledge of Indian arts in all of them. Thank you & best regards.