[Assam] Kite Flying season in Assam - Kite runner

[umesh sharma]

Hi,

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-to.kite21dec21,0,4653149.story

Saw the movie Kite Runner - about boys who fly and cut kites in Kabul. I was wondering what is the kite flying season in Assam. I was in Kolkata in summer and they had kite flying fest that day. In North India - winter sun is best for kite flying. On Jan 14 there is the Makar Sankranti -and in Gujarat and some parts of Rajasthan there is kite flying fest -where- like Kabul - the kids each other's kites. 

Kite flying competitions are good way for harmony. But I guess it is easier to fly kites where there is open area and less trees and hills are the best or tall houses. On seeing the movie I felt that kite flying might have come to India from the 'west' - Kabul perhaps. Even in Jaipur the sport was popularized by the king who flew huge kites from tthe palace and when they were high in the sky the ropes were cut off. The kite makers are usually muslims (some) having origins in Kabul etc.
In my family my younger brother was the kite runner and I never needed to buy any kites. Ofcourse when he grew up my father forbade him to study on rooftop - with one eye on the books and the other on the kites!! 

Any info in kite flying in Assam?
I got this : http://www.indialine.com/travel/assam/fairs-festivals.html

Umesh
Here is the international kite flying fest I saw at Chougan stadium in Jaipur
http://www.indbazaar.com/travel/display.asp?cpage=3&move=&artid=183&z=21

This is the annual fest - Hilton Hotel website
http://www2.hilton.co.uk/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=80397

http://internationalkitefestival2007.blogspot.com/
in Gujarat




Umesh Sharma

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