"Design Today in Europe and America includes chairs, lamps, china, glassware, kitchen utensils, textiles and tools from 13 countries. According to Mrs. Pupul Jayakar representing the Indian government at the opening on January 16, the purpose of her government’s invitation was to focus attention on the vital problem of product design in terms of rapidly developing small-scale industry. For The U.S. and the Western world, the problem of India’s future development was recently described by C. Douglas Dillon, Under Secratary of State for Economic Affairs, ‘the most important economic project we have anywhere in the world.’" "At the opening ceremonies in New Delhi, Manubhai Shah, Union Minister of Industry praised American and European design and pointed out the lessons for India: "This does not mean that we in India should produce exact replicas of these, nothing would be farther from the results proposed to be achieved by the exhibition than to go in for blind imitation or copying. We in this country have a tradition of our own. We have to produce simple, artistic and beautiful designs for articles consistent with our way of life and suitable to our genius. The exhibition (should) ‘stimulate thinking on our part and may suggest new ideas.’"