The United Nations will launch a project to create an inventory of India’s art forms, craftsmanship and other intangible cultural heritage. The ‘wiki-style project’ will be executed through crowd-sourcing and other means engaging with UNESCO, UNDP and the Indian ministries of culture and textiles, UN resident coordinator in India Yuri Afanasiev said recently.
A number of India’s countless intangible cultural heritage forms, such as folk music, art, textile design, craftsmanship are disappearing fast, Indian media reports quoted Afanasiev as saying.The United Nations will launch a project to create an inventory of India's art forms, craftsmanship and other intangible cultural heritage.The 'wiki-style project' will be executed through crowd-sourcing and other means engaging with UNESCO, UNDP and the Indian ministries of culture and textiles, UN resident coordinator in India Yuri Afanasiev said recently.#
On October 24, the UN office in New Delhi marked the UN Day by displaying the country’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage. A total of 13 intangible cultural heritage elements from India have been inscribed till date on the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The new year-long project, tentatively dubbed ‘A snapshot inventory of intangible cultural heritage’, aims to capture those elements in a capsule, said Afanasiev. (DS)
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