Array of kites gives a new look to the sky in Tannirbhavi Beach

Five days ago, it was the kite made by kite-flyer Bhavna Mehta, successful collaboration with a German kite-flyer, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz flew during the kite festival connected the Sabarmati Riverfront successful Ahmedabad.

On Saturday, Ms. Mehta was astatine the Tannirbhavi Beach to show her kite, which has been made successful collaboration with Avionics Engineer-turned-kite flyer Bob C from the U.K. Ms. Mehta made 2 paintings of 2 Japanese Koi food successful caller water, to which Mr. Bob has tied threads to alert connected the Tannirbhavi formation during the 9th variation of two-day International Kite Festival, which commenced connected Saturday.

Ms. Mehta’s different 5 ft X 4 ft size coating showing a wolf’s look successful Doodle signifier was besides successful the sky. Ms. Mehta’s hubby Shailesh Harinarayan Mehta, different avid kite-flyer, attached sticks and threads to enactment it up successful the sky.

As galore arsenic 62 kite-flyers, including 30 from abroad, are participating successful the festival organised by Mangaluru’s kite-flying enthusiasts Team Mangalore, successful relation with District administration.

Among the different flyers who displayed their kites, included the seasoned kite-flyer 76-year-old Abdul Rauf Khan from Mumbai, who has brought arsenic galore arsenic 150 kites to the festival. Another seasoned Mahesh Chavada from Rajkot arrived with his lad Yash Chavada and nephew Shubham Kamdar to show an array of kites showing antithetic animals and fashionable cartoon characters.

Some of kite-flyers, including Guilherme Linares Palau, went retired of the designated country to show their kites. “We similar to beryllium with people. Hence, I preferred displaying my kites extracurricular the earmarked area,” said Mr. Palau, who allowed radical to person a consciousness of his kites that displayed fashionable cartoon quality Pinocchio, oversea gull and daisy flower. Mr. Palau attracted galore visitors by wearing a peculiar autochthonal headgear.

With upwind flowing low, flyers Clare Louise Hardwick from the UK and Gheno Sandra from Canada displayed lone fewer of the kites they had brought. Instead of the dense kite showing Nemo fish, kite-flyer Sandrine from France flew the airy kite successful the signifier of a heart. Machacek Jan Helmut from Germany displayed the kite successful the signifier of an astronaut.

Speaker U.T. Khader inaugurated the festival. The kite show started astatine 3 p.m. and went connected till 9 p.m. On Sunday, the show volition beryllium betwixt 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. MLC Ivan D’Souza, Deputy Commissioner H.V.Darshan, Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Narwade Vinayak Karbhari went astir to person glimpse of kites connected Saturday.