राजनीतिक व्यंग्य और सामाजिक संदेश वाले पतंगों के साथ, दिल्ली के सभी पतंग बाजार तैयार हैं

With less than a week to go for Independence Day celebrations, kite lovers in Delhi and neighbouring states, are thronging the famous Lal Kuan Market in great numbers to get hold of as many kites as possible. On August 15 everyone will be on their terraces and won't have time to go to the market to buy extra kites. Nobody wants to miss the fun even for a moment. 

In the market, you can see piles of kites with different shapes, sizes, and colors and printed messages on them. They are from politics, cartoons, sports, and of your favorite superheroes. You will have a hard time to find kites for yourself, seeing so many colorful ones.

Modi versus Rahul

Naresh Gupta who is the owner of one of the shops named Sachin Kite Centre at Lalkuan said, “Bollywood stars have taken a backseat and the masses’ flavour is politics. This is ‘Mahasangram Kite’ and the public is buying it with both hands. India is going to have the election next year, the people are more interested in taking the battle between PM Modi and Rahul Gandhi to skies.” Naresh is the third generation who is running this business in Lalkuan. Quiet Old!

We all know elections are coming and how PM Modi is everywhere be it social media, news channel, he is one trending man along with Yogi Aditynath. A kite seller Lokesh Kumar said, “People are liking this kite as well with UP CM on it. But Mahasangram has become an instant hit. I have sold more than 50,000 kites this season alone.”

It’s like a tradition for Delhi 6 resident to fly kites this one week till the Independence Day. A 60-year-old man who has been in this business for last 35 years, Shabeer Ahmad said, “This is one week for business as well as for the passion of kite flying. We prepare throughout the year, just for this one season. You will see people flying kites throughout the week and nobody stops anybody from using their roofs for kite flying because people celebrate India’s freedom.”

While Superheroes, Bollywood’s trend is a bit off now, social messages on kites are trending. Plus political or sarcasm is what we like the most about the kites. While everyone is waiting for Modi’s Ache Din- Kites at Lalkuan are full of such messages which the government use and one of them are “Ache Din AA Gye” and another one is Vikas aka development.

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