Puja committees
Kolkata · Bengal · Living Heritage
Not merely a festival.
A living cultural legacy.
A contemporary digital home for the communities, artisans, organisers and stories that bring Durgotsab to life.
01 · The Forum
A collective that celebrates, curates and preserves.
Forum for Durgotsab brings together puja committees, artists, cultural practitioners and communities to strengthen Bengal's most expansive public-art celebration.
Discover our purpose ↗Scale of the celebration
Measured in people.
Remembered in emotion.
Visitors every year
Intangible cultural heritage
Artisans and workers involved
Art belongs to everyone.
Our initiatives
Community before spectacle.
The redesigned experience gives every visitor a clear path into the Forum's work — from artist support and sustainable celebrations to heritage documentation and inclusive cultural programmes.
The annual journey
One year.
Four defining moments.
A clean, narrative timeline helps visitors understand how the Forum works through the year — not only during the days of Puja.
Registrations
Committees join the Forum and become part of the annual cultural network.
Workshops
Capacity building for artists, volunteers and community organisers.
Preview Show
A curated preview of significant creative visions before the festival.
Durgotsab
The grand public celebration where devotion, art and community converge.
Visual archive
Stories made by hand.
The hands behind the spectacle
A city moving together
Tradition, continuously renewed
Committee directory
Find a celebration.
Meet its community.
The proposed directory makes committees discoverable by name, locality, district and year of establishment.
Be part of the movement