"If Winter comes can Spring be far behind?" said poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Signifying this new life energy associated with the oncoming of Spring, is the festival of Uttarayan in Gujarat, when people shedding social and religious inhibitions, even transgressing geographical boundaries, join in the unique event of kite flying. In its highs and lows, this sport, much like ball play or motion of the swing, becomes an ideal metaphor for the unpredictability of life, with its ups and downs. Kite flying, in the competition for air space amongst fliers, witnesses the thrill of joy and sense of freedom as the kite soars in the sky, and the corresponding sense of deep loss and dejection when it comes spiraling down, its string in the air severed by a competing flier's kite - with the entire gamut of human emotions at play. Read more in the site
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