The struggle to reconcile ancient wisdom with the new modernist idioms is most pronounced in architects who received their introduction to modern architecture via exposure to Bauhaus and the International Style. While the latter was increasingly focused on the universal visual language, the 'Aesthetic Modernity', the former still believed in the social goal of the modern movement, well-designed industrially manufactured goods for common people and low-cost housing; in other words, design as an all-encompassing way of being. This was particularly appealing to the young Indian artists and architects as a way to counter the mis-representation, by the Empire, of the ancient Indian traditions.