BHOPAL: Spreading the message of unity at “Patang Utsav” in Bhopal on Makar Sankranti, 90% of participants are Muslims. Nasir Khan, Bablu Khan and Allu were the winners of the kite flying competition ...

Kites are finding a renewed popularity in films ST points out a few films that have a varied depiction of kites. The age-old tradition of kite flying is interestingly now a part of some major block ...

Indian-American writer/director Prashant Bhargava and producer Jaideep Punjabi have won the South Asian Rising Star Film Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for the feature film "Patang" (The ...

As a teenager in the 1920s, Dilip Kapadia spent long hours indulging in his first love of flying kites. This was at Girgaum’s Chowpatty beach before the 2014 ban on patang baazi and manja wars kicked ...

Starring Mukkund Shukla, Sugandha Garg, and Seema Biswas. In Hindi and Gujarati with English subtitles. Rated PG. Opens Friday, June 22, at the Denman Cinemas Patang (The Kite) is writer-director ...

Each year on January 14—the day the wind changes, according to the Hindu calendar—some one million kites fill the skies above Ahmedabad, India, for Uttarayan, the country's largest kite-flying ...

The Sankranti weekend is finally here and there’s a different kind of buzz on the skyline when Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes on chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. Bollywood will be highly ...

Hyderabad: The festival of kites, which is round the corner, ranks high in popularity with people from all walks of life and every age-group participating enthusiastically in the ‘Patangula panduga’ ...