Today january 14th, three days festival of hyderabad named Magara Sankranthi begin today.I read on some advertisement that "Give wings to your dreams ,let us fly high with kites",if we can do this it will bring smile to our face.The sky of Hyderabad is filled with different kinds of kites .Since kite flying festival is started.In every house the women makes colorful Rangolis with cow dung and marigold flowers.Also they make hot and sweet pongala(rice).
In Hyderabad the thread used to fly the kites is called 'Manja' it is glass coated and its shrpened edges can easily cut another ones thread so that is the reason for using Manja instead of regular cotton thread.There is one kite shop nearer to my house and i noticed that a large number of crowd was always there.There is no age barrier for kite flying those who wanted to fly away their worries in life can participate in it.
I saw a boy who is helping his younger sister to fly the kite,both tried hard but it didn't work, its all about how you control the thread and wind the major factor.Then their grandpa came and he helped them.I enjoyed watching them.
And in one site i read that the glass coated manjas created a lot of danger to birds,as the threads entangled in trees cause death of birds.
Somethings in life are just too good that we don't want to miss it and kite flying is one of them it keeps our imagination alive.So the festival attract people of all age who take part with their kites of all shapes,size and colours.
So i asked my husband to bring me one kite,and i hope that he will do it.I am ready to fly the kite ,and reach it to the heights of sky.......
