Sangeet Natak Akademi

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"India's precious heritage of music, drama and dance is one which we must cherish and develop. We must do so not only for our own sake but also as our contribution to the cultural heritage of mankind. Nowhere is it truer than in the field of art that to sustain means to create. Traditions cannot be preserved but can only be created afresh. It will be the aim of this Akademi to preserve our traditions by offering them an institutional form..."

	*-- Maulana Azad*
Right to Information Act, 2005 Public Information Officer(s)	*28 January 1953, at the inauguration of* *Sangeet Natak Akademi*