New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- INDICA (an institute for Indian Knowledge Systems) and the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) jointly hosted a special evening in New Delhi to celebrate and felicitate historian, author, and scholar Padma Shri Dr. Meenakshi Jain on her nomination to the Rajya Sabha.

The program carried a distinctive aesthetic shaped by Dr. Jain's scholarship and persona. It was not a conventional felicitation; it was a space where authenticity prevailed, where nobody felt the need to say more than they genuinely felt. In place of a formal vote of thanks, gratitude was offered at the very outset in keeping with the Indian way, affirming that the event was as much personal as it was civilisational.

Speakers included S...