Since 1988, New Art Players has organised a biennial lecture commemorating its founder President, Mohendra Kumar Barua, whose selfless service and able guidance across three decades laid the foundation of the organisation’s ideals and gave it a sense of direction.
The roll of speakers reads as a record of NAP’s intellectual reach — election commissioners and attorneys general, filmmakers and journalists, environmentalists and freedom fighters — each addressing questions of national and social consequence before Guwahati audiences.
| Year | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Pushpalata Das — Ex-MP, Gandhian social worker and freedom fighter | The Role of Voluntary Social Organisations and Workers Towards Integration of the Greater Assamese Society |
| 1990 | Dr G.S. Yonzone — environmentalist and Principal, Kalimpong College, Darjeeling; and Dr D.C. Goswami | Threats and Challenges Posed to Humanity in India due to Ecological Imbalances and Environmental Pollution, and How to Curb Them |
| 1992 | Nalini Singh — journalist, social worker and TV news feature producer, New Delhi | The Sociological Background of Drug Addiction and Society’s Response to the Challenges of the Drug Menace in India |
| 1995 | T.N. Seshan — former Chief Election Commissioner of India | In Search of National Values — India at the Threshold of the 21st Century |
| 1996 | Soli J. Sorabjee — Advocate, Supreme Court, and Attorney General of India | Role of the Judiciary in Restoring the Confidence of the People of India in Polity |
| 1998 | Shyam Benegal — eminent filmmaker | 25 Years in Filmmaking — Expectation, Satisfaction, Regrets and Hope |
| 2000 | Joginder Singh, IPS (Retd.) — former Director, CBI; Member (Hony.), Executive Committee, INTERPOL | India of Our Dreams — in the Present Millennium |
| 2003 | Raja Sen — eminent filmmaker and director, Kolkata | Cinema — Children’s Cinema |
| 2005 | Madhabi Mukhopadhyay — eminent film artist | Role of Cinema in the Development of Society |
| 2015 | Smriti Irani — Hon’ble Minister for Human Resource Development, Government of India | Diamond Jubilee Lecture (scheduled August 2015) |