Sorry Mr. JC, I beg to differ!
arts, literature, sports, etc...all these things flourish in a peculiar atmosphere...and that is a stable/normal/healthy society.
you can't expect these things to grow in a place where the very fabric of society is being torn apart!
you can't make forceful/artificial progress in these things coz it just won't work!
instead, we should focus on mitigating the mess in our society..and these things will automatically take their course..
remember, not long time ago..we used to be pretty good in sports (cricket, hockey, squash, snooker, etc), we had a great/vibrant pop music industry, a reasonable film industry (though long time back), we had poets..writers..everything! but now...nothing.....why..? becoz....jab maashrey per tabahi ati hai..tou wo uski her dimension mein reflect hoti hai...