Re: Jishan-e-Baharan(Spring festival) Basant Culture
Kite flying is common in Afghanistan too. It’s called gudiparan bazi (gudiparan translates to “flying doll”). It was banned during the Taliban era as they considered it “un-Islamic” (I’ve never understood the reasoning behind this) but now people have begun flying kites again.
I quite agree with you that line/string used is quite sharp. Back home, people coat the line with glue and crushed glass or other sharp material so that it cuts the lines of other kites. I actually had a rather unfortunate incident with this. While on a visit when I was 12 or so, I tried to pull a kite back by pulling it from the line (as it was about to crash into another kite and I couldn’t wind the line back fast enough) and it cut across the palm of my hand and even required a couple of stitches.
How do you see this practice of banning every second thing by tagging it un-Islamic. Isn’t this promoting Islam as suffocation? A religion introduced 1400 years is being used to ban neutral things like kite flying , which were there since centuries before Islam.