Telangana Kite and Sweet Festival
Lakhs of people hoarding Parade Grounds, navigating the terrible diversion and walking for a kilometre, for flying kites and tasting the delicacies should give you a hint that people still gorge on the manjas and the threads and festivities. I remember as a child, hopping on to the terrace and seeing the terrace filled with kites of various sizes, shapes and colours and gorging on the sweetmeats that mother and grandmother used to prepare. A stereo was set up in our apartments as we cut each other's kites and shouted on top of our voices to express our victory. We'd ensure we take the winning kite home. Stories of children or young adults falling off from terraces would fill the pages of the newspaper, the next day. The Parade Grounds in Secunderabad brought back these memories with their fourth edition of Kites and Sweets Festival. The entire ground looked like an amalgamation of different terraces. Light Kites, Fighter Kites, Lantern Kites adorned the skies and men, wom...