Which of the following bodies of India organized the “Bharat Rang…

Concept: India runs several distinct national cultural and administrative bodies, each with its own institutional mandate. When a question asks which body organized a specific event, mandate alignment (matching the event’s subject domain to a body’s stated mandate) is a useful first filter, but the definitive check is the body’s own or the government’s official record crediting that body with the event — mandate alone is only suggestive, not conclusive.

Application: Bharat Rang Mahotsav is India’s flagship multi-genre theatre festival, launched in 1999 and held periodically since (the 2025 edition was its 24th, running from 28 January to 16 February 2025). Government of India records (Press Information Bureau) and the National School of Drama’s own official festival documentation credit the National School of Drama (NSD) — an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture dedicated to theatre training, production, and promotion — as the organizing body for every edition, including 2025. This official attribution is also consistent with NSD’s mandate, which squarely covers theatre production and promotion.

Cross-check — why the other bodies do not fit:

• Sahitya Akademi’s mandate covers the promotion of literature across Indian languages through publishing, translation, and literary awards, not theatre production, and no official record credits it with organizing Bharat Rang Mahotsav.

• The Indian Council for Cultural Relations manages India’s external cultural diplomacy and cultural-exchange programmes abroad, not domestic theatre festivals, and carries no official credit for Bharat Rang Mahotsav.

• The Ministry of Panchayati Raj oversees the development and functioning of rural local self-government institutions, an administrative domain unrelated to the performing arts, with no organizing role in Bharat Rang Mahotsav.

Since official Government of India and NSD records credit the National School of Drama as the organizer of Bharat Rang Mahotsav-2025 — a conclusion also consistent with its mandate — National School of Drama is confirmed as the organizing body.