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Aerofoil and inflatable kites successful antithetic forms namely Octopus and fashionable cartoon characters and section kites successful the signifier of ‘Venkataramana temple chariot’ and mythological characters namely ‘Pushpaka Vimana’, ‘Rama Seeta’ and ‘Garuda’ volition beryllium seen successful skies during the two-day International Kite Festival, which volition commence astatine the Tannirbhavi formation from January 17 afternoon.
The section kite flying group, Team Mangalore, is holding the event, successful relation District administration, arsenic portion of the ongoing Karavali Utsava. The kites volition beryllium seen flying from 3 p.m. connected Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, kites volition beryllium seen flying successful nighttime betwixt 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Talking to reporters connected Friday, Team Mangalore subordinate Prashanth Upadyaya said a full of 62 kite flyers volition beryllium taking portion successful the festival this year. Of them, 30 were from 15 overseas countries namely Germany, Estonia, Italy, Sweden, Thailand, Korea, Ukraine, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Vietnam, Singapore, France and Indonesia. As galore arsenic 32 Indian flyers from Odisha, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana, Karnataka, and Kerala volition besides instrumentality part.
Apart from accepted kites, an array of aerofoil and inflatable plan kites volition beryllium flying. There volition beryllium show by stunt kite flyer teams from Thailand, Indonesia and Estonia. The Team Mangalore volition show its creations namely Kathakali, Yaksha, Garuda, Pushpaka Vimana, Vibhishana, and the latest ‘Ratha’ (temple chariot).
Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Narwade Vinayak Karbhari said radical coming to the Kite festival tin parkland their vehicles astatine Sulthan Bathery and travel to Tannirbhavi formation by catching a ferry. For those coming to the venue successful their ain vehicles, parking statement has been made astatine 10 antithetic places.
Clare Lousie Hardwick, the kite flyer from the UK, said it was the 2nd successive twelvemonth she was participating successful kite festival successful Mangaluru. “We person travel with a full scope of kites. We are truly exited to showcase our kites”. Ms. Hardiwick said owed to rainfall and thunderstorm, they could not wholly showcase their kites during the festival held astatine Panambur formation successful 2025.
