With just about a fortnight to go for Sankranti, it appears that demonetisation has taken its toll on kite business in the old city. HYDERABAD: With just about a fortnight to go for Sankranti, it ...

Jaipur: Gone are the days when traders of Jaipur used to bring in truckloads of kites from Bareilly and Rampur in Uttar Pradesh for genuine kite lovers and ‘ustaads’ of the city. In bid to make the ...

For several years now, the festival of Sankranti sets the business of Sheikh Farid soaring high up on the skies, and quite literally so! A wholesale kite-seller, Farid eagerly waits for the festival ...

With new and innovative strategies being the norm, people involved in kite making business here are earning huge profits, as the corporate sectors are placing bulk orders of kites for advertising ...

Kite sellers were doing brisk business as stalls and laaris had mushroomed selling patang' accessories masks, rubber totis worn on the forefinger while flying kites. It was like going around the city ...

Abdul Raheem, a 45-year-old man from Yakutpura, has been making kites all his life. A third generation family member, he learned the craft from his father some 30 years ago, but no longer finds the ...