Our cultural destiny - by Bikash Chandra Basu (Ex-IAS officer)
We need a platform for ventilation of our sensible human thoughts, exchange of views, choice and need for a platform for future interactions to come. Let us look at the past. After agriculture the cottage and small industries generated the largest employment opportunities in India, which reminds us our responsibilities to protect and promote our pride heritage of handicrafts, handlooms etc.
Most people including customers are not artists but the ugly fingers of rural artisans continue making beautiful designs, artworks using their quality and creativity without any institutional training. Now a days we need to think about needs for newer attractive designs created by those rural artisans. Now let us exchange our knowledge, information using the social media and to make a common human platform where, " West will meet the East ".
We have varieties in textile, costumes, dresses and many attractive handy things working separately without knowing each other. Our proposed platform may work to let all such sectors to come closure or innovations and new ideas. Fashion isn't only for the present young generations, release it to all sectors and collect new ideas, forms for all sectors, age groups and let there be interactions between them. The new texture of designs, tastes, use of variety items for making their creations more attractive.
Lastly please don't forget to look at the nature who is the best Fashion designer from season to season, place to place, hills to forests, desert to sea. Nature is waiting for your creative mind. Pick up your necessities. After all Nature is the best creator of colours, designs etc. Only thing we need to use our searching eyes to find them in trees, leaves, birds, other creatures.