{"id":7106,"date":"2024-08-10T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/indias-kite-makers-see-sales-fly-during-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T10:36:11","slug":"indias-kite-makers-see-sales-fly-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/indias-kite-makers-see-sales-fly-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"India’s kite-makers see sales fly during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ahsan Khan, a seller in Mumbai, says the country was at risk of running out.<\/p>\n

“The period between April and August is usually the leanest [for kite sales],” he says. “But this year, I have sold about 500,000 kites [during that time].”<\/p>\n

He adds that neighbouring Pakistan had also caught the kite-flying bug during its lockdown. “I am even getting calls from Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan, from people offering to pay me double the usual amount.”<\/p>\n

Kite-flying has been a popular pastime in India for centuries, with historians saying that it was introduced to the country by Chinese travellers.<\/p>\n

It is, however, usually a seasonal activity in India. In most parts of the country sales peak around the festival of Makar Sankranti, external<\/span><\/a> – celebrated on 14 January to mark the beginning of spring and harvest season. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Ahsan Khan, a seller in Mumbai, says the country was at risk of running out. “The period between April and August is usually the leanest [for kite sales],” he says. “But this year, I have sold about 500,000 kites [during that time].” He adds that neighbouring Pakistan had also caught the kite-flying bug during its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[2344,1568,4131,82,225],"class_list":["post-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-trade","tag-fly","tag-indias","tag-kitemakers","tag-lockdown","tag-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7108,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions\/7108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}