Javed Akhtar Chairman IPRS Appeals To Inculcate Traditional Values In Children At IMI conference

By Priyaankaa Mathur

"From a very young age children needs to be exposed to Indian music, traditional arts and that needs to be a part of school curriculums, so that children develop a taste to appreciate Indian music, Ghazals and other genres. Indian music industry is dominated with Bollywood because it sells, and it has more buyers and that's how the business works. To bring change the society needs to show significant urge to listen to other genres too and that needs to be inculcated from a very young age amongst our children and the youth. If our arts and traditional music is given patronage and encouragement from the society,the music industry will definitely be forced to do it. It is the responsibility of the society to tell the seller what they want to buy."

The good will an artists commands in any society across the world is unparalleled.Since it's the poet, a musician or an artist that connects to a better side  or the most sensitive side of a human being. At any point of time whenever the society or the governments have needed them, the artists have always stood  by them in the midst of political situations, wars, oppositions helping the society.This is one power that cannot be substituted and is too precious to be lost. The real stakeholders are the creative people and the artists of the industry who create music,and we need to provide them with the right position and the right shares that they deserve that will make this industry more powerful.