A Colourful Rally was Organised in Celebration of Durga Puja in Kolkata Being Designated a Unesco Heritage Tag
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On 1st September, Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal government organized a grand rally to thank UNESCO for the heritage label given to Durga Puja in Kolkata. The next Durga Puja in Kolkata will be particularly memorable. UNESCO has recognised the event as an Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity.
The rally marched from the Jorasanko area in north Kolkata to Red Road in central Kolkata. It is anticipated that participants from more than 1,000 Durga Puja committees from around the State attended the event. Banerjee praised UNESCO for designating the Durga puja celebration as an ICH tag.
What is Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage?
Recent decades have seen a significant change in the meaning of the phrase “cultural heritage,” in part because of the tools created by UNESCO. Cultural heritage extends beyond monuments and artifact collections. It also includes customs or living expressions that have been passed down from our ancestors to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social customs, rituals, holiday celebrations, and knowledge and customs related to nature and the cosmos as well as the know-how required to make traditional crafts.
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