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The International Kite Festival (Uttarayan) is an annual kite festival held in January in Gujarat, India, to celebrate the Uttarayan—the days in the Hindu calendar when winter begins turning to summer. [1]
Basant is a spring time kite flying event during the Basant Panchami festival in the Punjab. [1] According to the Punjabi calendar it is held on the fifth day of lunar month of Magha (in late January or early February) marking the start of spring .
Jeevan Kite & River Festival, Guwahati [11] Asia: India: Assam: Lower Assam: Guwahati: 2014 Summer March March Festival de pipas de Osasco South America: Brazil: Southern Brazil: Osasco, São Paulo state: 1969 May Third Saturday Franklin Park Kite and Bike Festival [12] (Formerly Great Boston Kite Festival) North America: United States ...
It is considered as one of the most important festivals in the Hindu religious calendar. The 2025 edition was expected to see 400 million people in attendance. Multiple crowd crushes have occurred during the festival, with at least 400 people dying in the 1954 edition and 36 killed in an incident at Railway station at 2013. [12]
A kite flying at Basant Panchami event. At least since the 19th century, kite flying on Basant has been a popular event in north India well as in the region around Lahore, Pakistan. Kite flying is also traditional in west India on Uttarayan, in Mathura on Viskwakarma Puja and in south India. [18]
A multi-city kite-flying festival will mark one year since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Fly With Me will celebrate the ancient Afghan craft of kite-flying across 15 locations in the UK and ...
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Actor and model Hasib Mohammad, 23, who was showing children how to fly kites at the festival, said he wanted to give people “a taste of Afghan culture, because the way Afghanistan has been ...