Place of traditional classical literature and art in modern literature and art:---

On one side is modern and ultra-modern as well pseudo-modern art and literature,
dazzling the eyes and ears with the brilliancy of myriad stars and driving in the chariot
of fast pace of life by its incisive power ; on the other are the hopeful and strengthening
traditions of the doyens of our past centuries, in the days when literature as well as art
was at the zenith of its glory, the light of knowledge, imagination and vision have been
brought out by those laureates, artists, sculptors, writers and poets and carried forward
by those thinkers and visionaries, that run for centuries through our every vein with the
quickening of life ------ tradions that reveal unsurpassed valour and supreme
spirituality --- these inspire me not to abandon those old styles of creations in those
fields, rather combining these with our future hopes.

Barring a few microscopic minority, most of the present-day writers, poets and artists
are the title-hunters and the popularity-hunters. All we need to aim and develop are ‘pure
life’ through our art and literature, not prize, not scholarship, not honour, not mere
learning.

So in our pursuit of money, prize and popularity, we must not produce, publish or
display just ‘mindless rotes’ in assembly lines, but formulate a publishing policy that will
not force writers and poets to follow the present trends blindly altogether, but will
encourage in combining those with latest and modern styles.

If there is one place of ‘pedestal of tribute’ , where all the dreams of those laureates,
thinkers, artists and writers of yester-centuries have to be gifted a ‘home’, it is in the
modern and post-modern art, literature and other creations. Their ‘Tree of Vision’, with
all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, renews itself tirelessly, showing no
signs of decay.