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Held every year on January 14 to correspond with the festival of Uttarayan or Makar Sankranti, the Kite Festival is one of the renowned and well-liked festivals and events in Ahmedabad. It is. The auspicious day is typically marked by bright sun, clear skies, and breezes strong enough to lift numerous kites high onto the clouds. With the summer boiling still to come, the occasion marks an end of the winter. Since the long past, numerous people all over Gujarat, with Ahmedabad and Baroda celebrate Kite Festival with full of spirit. In this festive mood, all people rush to watch the magnificent spectacle on the sky. Special dishes are prepared to relish the occasion and eaten in the open fields and parks. It is believed that it is the time to wake sleeping gods from their long six-month long sleep and open up the portals of heaven. Many things are distributed freely at the temple by people as a charity on this occasion.

A few days in advance, people start preparing for the occasion of Kite Festival in Ahmedabad. Kids and youth prepare their special kites and strings for the annual occasion. Kite flying begins at daylight and continues without a break throughout the day. Friends, neighbors, and total strangers encounter each other for superiority and cry the word- ‘Kapyo Chhey’, which can be heard in a million voices. With the breathtaking varieties of kites flying on the sky, a visitor has just to pick and choose. The kite strings are prepared specially to make easy cutting and to prevent it getting cut. Special mixtures of paste and ground glass used to cover the lines, which are then dried and rolled into reers known as firkees. The nights experience illuminated box kites, often many of them string on one line, launched to the skies. Kite Festival in Ahmedabad draws visitor’s attention from all over the world.