The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is to meet in Srinagar on May 18 to finalise the rates on individual items and services. Hopefully, it will decide on a nil rate on the work of writers and poets, art work such as paintings and sculptures, and performances of classical music, folk dance, theatre artists and the like.
India has one of the world’s largest collections of songs, music, dance, theatre, folk traditions, performing arts, rites and rituals, paintings, sculptures and writings – an intangible cultural heritage of all humanity. Art is an expression of a person or group that are
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