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Indira
Gandhi
National
Centre
for
the
Arts
(IGNCA), New
Delhi is
a
premier
government-funded
arts
organization
in
India.
It
is
an
autonomous
institute
under
the
Union Ministry
of
Culture.
It
was
established
in
the
memory
of Indian
Prime
Minister Indira
Gandhi,
with Kapila
Vatsyayan as
its
founding
director.
The
IGNCA
was
launched
on
19
November
1985
by
Prime
Minister
Shri
Rajiv
Gandhi
at
a
function
where
the
symbolism
of
the
components
was
clearly
articulated
at
different
levels.
The
elements
-
fire,
water,
earth,
sky
and
vegetation
-
were
brought
together.
Five
rocks
from
five
major
rivers
-
Sindhu
(Indus), Ganga, Kaveri, Mahanadi and
the Narmada (where
the
most
ancient
ammonite
fossils
are
found)
were
composed
into
sculptural
forms.
These
remain
at
the
site
as
reminders
of
the
antiquity
of
Indian
culture
and
the
sacredness
of
her
rivers
and
rocks.
The
Indira
Gandhi
National
Centre
for
the
Arts
Trust
was
constituted
and
registered
at
New
Delhi
on
24
March
1987.
The
Indira
Gandhi
National
Centre
for
the
Arts,
established
in
memory
of
Indira
Gandhi,
is
visualised
as
a
centre
encompassing
the
study
and
experience
of
all
the
arts—each
form
with
its
own
integrity,
yet
within
a
dimension
of
mutual
interdependence,
interrelated
with
nature,
social
structure
and
cosmology.
Its
official
goals
are:
to
serve
as
a
major
resource
centre
for
Indian
arts,
especially
written,
oral
and
visual
source
materials
to
conduct
research
on
the
arts
and
humanities,
and
to
publish
reference
works,
glossaries,
dictionaries
and
encyclopedias
to
establish
a
tribal
and
folk
arts
division
with
a
core
collection
for
conducting
systematic
scientific
studies
and
live
presentations
to
provide
a
forum
for
dialogue
through
performances,
exhibitions,
multi-media
projections,
conferences,
seminars
and
workshops
on
traditional
and
contemporary
Indian
arts
to
foster
dialogue
between
the
arts
and
current
ideas
in
philosophy,
science
and
technology,
with
a
view
toward
bridging
the
gap
in
intellectual
understanding
between
modern
sciences
and
arts
and
culture
to
evolve
models
of
research
programmes
and
arts
administration
pertinent
to
the
Indian
ethos
to
elucidate
the
formative
and
dynamic
factors
in
the
complex
web
of
interactions
between
diverse
social
strata,
communities
and
regions
to
interact
with
other
national
and
international
institutions
to
conduct
related
research
in
the
arts,
humanities
and
culture
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