Foreword THE Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) is visualized as a centre holding within itself the study and experience of all arts, each form with its own integrity, yet within a dimension of mutual interdependence, related with nature, social structure and cosmology. This view of arts, integrated with and essential to the larger matrix of human culture, is predicated upon the recognition of the role of the arts as essential to the integral quality of person, at home with himself and with society. It coalesces the holistic world view so powerfully articulated throughout Indian tradition and emphasized by modern Indian leaders and thinkers like Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. The arts are here understood to comprise the fields of creative and critical literature, written and oral; visual arts, ranging from architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.; to performing arts of music, dance and theatre in their broadest connotation. Through its diverse programmes of research, publications, training, workshops, seminars, conferences and many other creative activities, IGNCA seeks to place the arts within the context of the natural and human environment. The fundamental approach of IGNCA in all its work is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary.
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