Bengaluru: Students of The Green School Bangalore ( TGSB) in Varthur, celebrated Makar Sankranti and Lohri with a unique ...

During Makar Sankranti, kite flying fills the skies. But unsafe manjha causes injuries to birds and people. Here’s why cotton ...

When a couple decided to make Lufkin their retirement home, they struggled with what activity to take up as a golden years hobby. Bass fishing? Not interested. Hunting? Not it. It was a chance ...

In Weifang, Shandong province, kites are not just toys. They symbolize both culture and an industry for the city. Widely known as the world capital of kites, Weifang has a history of flying kites ...

Kites, mostly of the traditional kind, are catching the eye of passers-by at Peterson’s One-Stop Kite Shop in Martindale’s Road, St Michael. Owner of the business, 58-year-old Peter Wiltshire, who has ...

Huddled over piles of colourful paper, Mohammad Yunus is one among thousands of workers in India's western state of Gujarat who make kites by hand that are used during a major harvest festival. People ...

Han Fuling, 82, holds two of his kites at his apartment in Weifang, China on June 26, 2014. Weifang is known as China's kite capital, and Han is one of the city's most revered kite artists. But during ...

Lohri and Makar Sankranti mark a seasonal shift from winter’s coldest days to the promise of warmth and longer daylight.

On a recent afternoon with springtime in the rising breeze, something else wonderful was in the air: a kite. Shortly, a second kite took flight as well. Like bookends separated by a row of volumes, ...