Excelsior Correspondent
SANGRAMA, Aug 8: Minister for Law, Justice, Parliamentary Affairs, Relief and Rehabilitation, Syed Basharat Bukhari, today said Kashmir has a rich and fascinating cultural heritage which needs to be preserved for the posterity.
“It is our moral duty to preserve and promote our distinct and rich cultural heritage,” Bukhari said while speaking at the inaugural function of Festival-cum-Exhibition – Kashmiriyat, held at a private educational institution at Lalad, Sangrama.
Bukhari underscored the need for undoing the damage done to the state’s culture and language by modernization and other allied factors.
The Minister said Kashmir is losing some of its ethnicity and culture everyday because of various factors and this process has to be reversed. “While we should be open to modernization but at the same time we should ensure that our cultural heritage doesn’t get annihilated in the process,” he said.
Bukhari said it is the wisdom and intellect of our ancestors that supplemented the economy, business, art and craft even in absence of any advanced technology at that point in time, which is required to be preserved and carried forward to maintain the proud legacy.
Earlier, the Minister also went around an exhibition put up by the students of the institute depicting various facets and colors of Kashmiri culture. It recreated different aspects of rural life by including religion, agriculture, art, handicrafts etc.
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