Pakistani society and artists

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Re: Pakistani society and artists

@muqawwee123

Has our society accepted art as a respectable profession?

Reading an article written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz around 30-40 years ago, where he stated these two incidents:

(1) One of servant asked driver about the marriage of his daughter and asked ‘laRka kaisa hai’? He said that ‘baqi sab theek hai.. per laRka ser wer (shair o shayari) karta hai aur akhbaron main chapwata hai. Servant said to driver ’ iss main kiya bura hai? apne Faiz saheb bhi to likhte hain’. Driver said: ‘Faiz saheb to ameer aadmi hai’.

Meaning involvement of poor man was / is not acceptable in our society.. Ye bhi ammeron ke chonchle hain.

(2) Someone approached culture department for funding a program related to culture and the karta dharta there replied ’ hamare paas Agriculture ke liye paisa nahin, aur aap culture ke liye paise mangne aa gae.. pehle roti, kapRa, makaan se jaan chhote gi to culture ki bari aae gi’

Whats your views on this matter? Whether our society improved and accepted art and artists or not?

wesay in dono examples main problem arts ya iski acceptance nahi, pesa/ economics hay