Art is as important as commerce.

Our newspapers, digital media and TV channels  don't get tired of repeatedly covering companies, CEO's business leaders, entrepreneurs and high-profile investors. How many of such companies and people do you recall from 50 years ago?  Perhaps 20.  And from 100 years ago?  Now the numbers drop to a single digit. 200 years? None! So what tells us about our history? What tells us about how we lived, the cities we planned, the battles we fought, the famines, plagues, celebrations, events from 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000 years past? It is the ART from those times. The architecture, stories, poems, folk-dances, folklore, paintings, sculptures, temples. E.g. To know how people lived in the 1950's, watch Gurudutt 's flicks for a taste of city life & Mehboob Khan's will provide insights into rural ones.  Yet there's not a page, not 5 minutes spent on the artists of today. All the money that takes up our time, all these business barons will be forgotten. But 200 years hence, on excavating the ruins of this coast, a few remaining bricks containing a street artist's paintings on the walls of Elphinstone station, will tell the inhabitants of the future world, that there once was a great city here, where  23 innocent people were killed in a mindless stampede. Value art.