If we want to build Brand Bharat' we should not listen to the diktats of the west regarding what is right, said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday at the India Ideas Conclave 2024 in Bengaluru. For millennia, we've been producing products, there's never been this point of exploitation. And suddenly for a traditional industry like, let's say, carpet making, you had a diktat coming from the buyers in the West saying, Oh, no, you're using children for making these carpets. We won't buy it from you, said Sitharaman. She said in India, families are engaged in making crafts, without denying children the schooling, because unless the craft is learnt very young, a craftsman can never master it. We've not denied children education.... you are not going to be told by others, you employ children. We need to stand up and say, we take care of their education, said Sitharaman. The kind of steps that need to be taken for better ethical production, which would make products superi