0Threat to indigenous craft and literary traditions-
- Modern development even prior to the stage of globalization made inroads into the traditional cultural forms and occupations based on them.
- Traditional crafts of weaving are dying out, unable to compete with power looms.
- There were a large number of suicides by traditional weavers.
- Similarly, attempts to patent the use of Haldi, rudraksh, basmati by multinational companies have highlighted the need for protecting the base of its indigenous knowledge systems.
