Kolkata’s Durga Puja gets world heritage tag.

Why in news?

• Kolkata’s Durga Puja has been included in UNESCO’s list of ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’. PM Modi in a tweet hailed the development as a matter of pride and joy for every Indian.

About Durga Puja getting world heritage tag

• The decision to include Durga Puja in the list was taken during the sixteenth session of the annual convention of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
• An annual festival, Durga Puja is celebrated in different parts of the country, but most notably in Kolkata. It marks the ten-day worship of goddess Durga which involves artisanal sculptures of the goddess sculpted from clay pulled from the Ganga.
• Durga Puja is seen as the best instance of the public performance of religion and art, and as a thriving ground for collaborative artists and designers.