The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), through its Kala Nidhi Division, organised the Dr Kapila Vatsyayan Memorial Lecture titled “Aatmbodh se Vishvabodh” (From Self-Realisation to Universal Awareness) on 29 December 2025 at the Samvet Auditorium, IGNCA. The memorial lecture was delivered by Dr Bhagesh Vasudev Jha, IAS (Retd.), Chairman, Gujarat Sahitya Academy. The session was chaired by Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, President, IGNCA Trust. Dr Sachchidanand Joshi, Member Secretary, IGNCA, delivered the welcome address, while Prof. (Dr) Ramesh Chandra Gaur, Dean and Head, Kala Nidhi Division, introduced the programme. Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, founding Member Secretary of IGNCA, was a distinguished scholar of Indian art, culture, and spiritual thought, and a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan. In her memory, IGNCA organises the Dr Kapila Vatsyayan Memorial Lecture annually.

Prior to the lecture, the exhibition ‘Abhivyakti: Expressions of the Loom from the Vault of a Visionary’ was inaugurated at the Darshanam I and II Galleries, IGNCA… …