It is horrifying to think of how our life would have been in absence of arts and literature. It is possible that the society does not give apt recognition to these artists and l iterary persons, but mankind has always given them a special place in their hearts. When Kamyu died, there was a strike on the radio station, but the employees remained present to pay tribute and telecast the program. Everybody knows about the disagreement between Poet Nhanalal and Gandhiji. The American poet and critic Carl Shapiro had a complaint that our age is mainly an age of Civility, and is an age of Arts only in a very small manner.
Civility is the result of Arts.
He has warned the artists against the Civility of today's age. Artists will have to put an effort to rediscover themselves. The literary person embraces the whole world with his sympathy. It is almost half a century since we have attained Independence, but in comparison to other societies, we have achieved very less. Gandhiji had made this statement, a short time before his death.