A staunch believer in the “power of arts,” Roy said it was important for people to see art as “tangible wealth” and not something merely abstract.
“Art creates intangible wealth we all know. But, time has come to talk about and spread the word about its tangible wealth. It creates tangible wealth too just like banks, hotels and steel industries etc. This is how more people will get involved in this,” he said.
According to Gokhale, it is the “rigid” nature of any institution’s functioning that prevents it from becoming an authority of arts, which more than often transcends beyond any set definition.
“Rigidity makes government institutions irrelevant. What is required from them is more of flexibility. I find the institutions supportive and reasonable too, but with the bureaucracy you never know when it turns the other way round,” she said.
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