Indira Kalakendra

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Indira Kalakendra (इन्दिरा कलाकेन्द्र) or the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts is the premier government funded arts organization in India. Its founding director was Kapila Vatsyayan.

The IGNCA was inaugurated on November 19, 1985 by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. 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 cotemporary 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; and
to conduct related research in the arts, humanities and culture.