The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on Wednesday included Diwali and 23 other festivals and traditions from around the world to the representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Unesco described the Hindu festival as a “joyous occasion that symbolises the victory of light over darkness and good over evil”.

The new inscriptions to the representative list include the Tangail traditional saree weaving art of Bangladesh, Behzad’s style of miniature art from Afghanistan, Bagpipes and bagpipe playing in Bulgaria and Cuarteto, a dance music genre from Argentina.

The United Nations agency also added 11 practices to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. This included the craft of making Đông Hồ Fol

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