Key Points
Kumarappa, his fervent wish that Gandhiji should, while concentrating his attention in forming a crafts museum, should also interest himself in founding an Indian arts Museum, to meet the danger of indigenous arts, being lost to the nation, through neglect and perverted lasts, due to opening Western fashions...
Surendranath Kar of the Viswabharati Kala Bhavan in connection with the design of the All-India Village Industries Museum, proposed to be founded at Wardha...
The economic life of a nation is not such an isolated fact as Mahatmaji imagines, and to-day, side by side with economic poverty, we are faced with a cultural poverty, which puts us to shame -- shame, that is in no way lessened when we consider what we once were...
Our art treasures, to-day, are found in museums outside India and our village artists are dying...
Mahatmaji s men go round collecting specimens of village maassries, why may they not also look for and collect specimens of the various indigenous arts, spread all over our land and waiting to be recherished?..
