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Historians say
UNESCO's citation calls the festival the best instance of the public performance of religion and art, and a thriving ground for collaborative artists and designers.
Historians say
Thousands of temporary pavilions built by neighbourhood committees, each with a designer, a theme and a sponsor, judged and awarded, visited by millions over five nights, and then dismantled. Themes range from craft traditions across India to social subjects - slum housing, communal harmony, sustainable agriculture - to the purely abstract.