Basant

The Basant festival has recently taken place in Pakistan. With thousands of kites flying and performing dog fights across the Lahore skyline, this provides a really colourful sperctre…but at what price?

I mean something is seriously wrong if you’re using kite strings coated in glass so that you can have kite fights and bring down other kites ? Where’s the fun if the string gets caught around some innocent victims neck ?

And what about the latest metal reinforced wires short-circuiting the electricity supplies and cause power outages as well as electrocuting the unsuspecting victims.

Then there’s cases of kids falling off rooftops whilst engrossed in their kite flying. Come on guys sort it out, can we please have less fatalities during the festival.

Anyway for the desi’s in the UK, I’m planning our very own British Basant Festival in a local park. So get your kites ready and leave comments if you’re interested.

No glass coated or metal reinforced wires !