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In the harsh terrain of the Mexican desert, a mortally wounded man is left for dead in the heat of the desert sun. This is J. Once a street smart, carefree young guy. Now, a wanted man. As death looms, the only thing that keeps him alive is the quest to find the love of his life, Natasha. A woman betrothed to another man, but surely destined for J. A woman who comes into his life like a bolt of lightning and changes it forever.
Jay Ray: Kites... flying high in the sky... free... dancing in the wind... with no worries... like two lovers... they meet, they fight... .they embrace... they almost become one... but it is not the will of the kites that makes them dance; because someone else... always holds the strings...
Over the years, the brothers came across more wounded kites, most crippled by vicious cuts. Knowing of no place to take them, they left the raptors in place. Then seven years ago while crossing a parking lot the duo came across yet another bleeding Black Kite. After leaving so many of the birds to die, they could no longer stand to see the suffering creatures. They carried it home, knowing that they would be fully responsible for it. A veterinarian patched up the bird, and under Saud and Shahzad's patient care, it made a full recovery. Encouraged, they began bringing home more kites, learning from a pigeon-trainer neighbor how to clean and suture wounds. Word got out, and over time the calls they received about hurt kites went from a trickle to a torrent.
Kite flying in general is a popular pastime in Delhi and elsewhere in the region, but it is the competitive flying, as depicted in the novel The Kite Runner, that is particularly harmful for the birds. Rather than using plain cotton thread for their aerial duals, participants prefer manja, thread coated in ground-up glass or metal to make it razor-sharp.
At Wildlife Rescue, Saud and Shahzad continue to care for the stream of patients. The flow will likely pick up come breeding season; they saw 400 fledglings last year alone. Treating so many birds is a huge undertaking, especially considering that the brothers also work day jobs, manufacturing bathroom accessories. Ultimately they plan to run a full-fledged bird hospital, but for now they run the clinic in their spare time with the help of volunteers such as Muhammad Farman, a teenager and ex-champion kite flyer who gave up the sport when he saw how it injured birds.
In between quick sips of tea from a kiosk, Kharvar, a migrant labourer from Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh, helps four other colleagues slip on the safety harnesses and equipment before they scale the transmission tower, which can be 30-35 metres high.
Today the team will be cleaning the power lines between Akhbar Nagar and Sabarmati power station, roughly 5 km long and passing through dense residential areas. The day earlier they had tackled the area between Gurukul and Akhbar Nagar. Below them, on rooftops, there are many children flying kites, many of which may well land on the power lines they are cleaning.
The first transmission tower they climb at 9.30 am is located opposite the landmark Bhavsar Hostel. Apart from the safety harness, a medium-built Kharvar, wearing faded blue jeans and a full-sleeve violet T-shirt against the cold, slips on a pair of soiled gloves and the I-card of Torrent Power. Lastly, he and the others wear the yellow hard hat worn by labourers at construction sites.
Once the trolleys are up, three of the four workers positioned on the tower fix them on the transmission line and slide their lower body into the rectangular frames. For additional safety, they harness themselves to two power lines, including the one being cleaned.
Around 1 pm, the team breaks for lunch. They park themselves under a tree on the roadside near Ranip Crossroads, where they unpack their steel tiffin boxes containing meals they hastily cooked before leaving for work in the morning.
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Kelly Reed, Adam Siens, Hans Jansen Op De Haar, and I (Troy Gunn) attended the 22nd Annual Weifang International Kite Festival and 1st World Kite Competition April 19-24, 2005 in Weifang, China by invitation from Mr. Liu Zhiping of the The Weifang International Kite Festival Executive Committee and the International Kite Federation Secretary & Weifang International Kite Festival Office.
Hans and I were asked to help them with competition related issues, as well as competitions, organization and judging issues. Kelly was asked to build an English website version for the festival information, take some photos, and take festival notes. Unfortunately, Kelly was sick the last three days of the festival, and was not able to take pics and notes during that time, so Troy Gunn (me) made the necessary arrangements to get this report completed.
After the arrival of Kelly and Adam, we were transported by mini van, the 8 hours ride to Weifang. The entire trip gave us the chance to see all the wonderful farms, and ornamental tree nurseries along the way. Sunday evening April 17, we finally arrived at our hotel in Weifang. The hotel was a nice 3 star hotel that was conveniently located next to the city center. This made it easy for us to shop and sight see, and it was also within a block of two night clubs, where many of us kiters spent many evenings, drinking Qingdao Beer.
The main reason for this is there is limited airspace and ground space at most traditional Chinese kite festivals, and due to the fact that the judges are given small stools and asked to sit in one place in order to judge contestants. So, to keep the pilot in front of the stationary judges the pilot is given limited ground space to move his/her body within.
During the 2-3 days of actual kite flying competitions, all of the invited kite fliers from 40 different countries were transported from our hotel, and driven 30 minutes to the designated kite flying field. As our bus pulls into the parking area, we were greeted by thousands of spectators and local kiters. I was told that there were approximately 500,000 there during the 3 days!
As a judge I was fortunate to be able to see a lot of the kites up close. There were kites of all shapes and sizes. There were traditional kites, modern kites, and even a couple guys that had built their own kite buggy and foil and were having a blast learning to buggy. The most impressive kites in my humble opinion were the Chinese Dragon Head Centipede kite trains! There were at least 3 dozen of these in the sky during the local judging of them. One was so large that it had to be brought in on a flat bed truck. The head was about 5 feet tall!
Asghar Belim was there for the first time from India and is a good friend whom I see at many other international kite festivals each year. Asghar is a 5th generation fighter kite maker, and specializes in his hand painted fighter kites.
And my friends from Weifang who help each year as translators, Mr. David Chen, Mr. Wang Hong Li, and his daughter Angie. Wang kept my dragon kite in storage for me at his house since having to leave it there last year (Thanks)!
KABUL -- It is a sunny day in Kabul, and the fighting is fierce.
This is a battle for control of the skies above the old city -- not between flying machines made of metal and rivets, but between delicate airborne art constructed from paper and string.
Afghans have elevated kite flying -- or "gudiparan bazi" -- to an art form, and one of its chief attractions is kite fighting.
To the first-time visitor, the skies above Kabul appear to be filled with fluttering birds or pieces of paper caught in the wind. A closer look reveals hundreds of brightly colored kites soaring high into the air.
The Taliban regime banned hobbies such as kite flying and bird keeping, in the belief that such pastimes were un-Islamic.
'They Would Beat You'
Karim is 12 years old and is helping his friend Muhasel fly a kite. He recalls what the Taliban would do if they caught someone flying a kite.
"During the Taliban, kite flying was not allowed. If you flew a kite, [the Taliban] would beat you and would break the spool and tear the kite up. Even if you had a pigeon in your hand, or any other birds, they would beat you and make it go free."
The fall of the Taliban in the capital one year ago (13 November), however, meant that Afghans could again fly kites without fear of punishment. Many Afghans have returned to the pastime with a vengeance.
Kite flying is a two-person affair. One person, the "charka gir," holds the wooden spool around which the wire, or "tar," is wound. The second person -- called the "gudiparan baz," or kite flyer -- actually controls the movement of the kite in the air.
In Afghanistan, wherever there are kites, there is kite fighting. During the fight, or "jang," two kites are flown close to one another, often at great heights. The object is to use the wire of your kite to cut the wire of your opponent's kite and set it free.
Twenty-five-year-old Muhasel stands on the shaky roof of his small videocassette shop in southeastern Kabul, engaged in a kite fight with an unseen opponent elsewhere in the neighborhood. He explains what appeals to him about gudiparan bazi.
"I enjoy [flying kites] because I'm interested in it. When I see people are flying kites, then I buy a kite to fly and fight with the other kites. I enjoy it very much if my kite can cut off the other kite and make it go free. But if my kite gets cut free, then I buy another to fight with. If, for example, during the kite fighting I'm running out of wire, then there is nothing else to do but to cut the wire off the spool and let it go free in order to beat my opponent. And he, too, has to let his wire go until his kite goes free."
'Free And Legal'
Everything in Afghan kite fighting depends on the quality of the wire and how it is prepared. First, glass is finely ground and combined with an adhesive mixture to make a thick paste. The wire is then coated with this paste to make it strong and sharp. After it is dry, the wire is wound around the spool. Kite fighters often wrap a piece of leather around their fingers to protect themselves from the taut wire, which can cut to the bone.
When an opponent's kite is cut free, it flutters like a colorful, dying bird into the far reaches of the city. Such kites are said to be "azadi rawest," or "free and legal," and can be retrieved by neighborhood children to fly another day. Each neighborhood crowns its own "sharti," or kite-fighting champion.
Kabul is filled with shops selling all manner of kite paraphernalia. Twenty-six-year-old Jawid runs such a shop in the Shur Bazaar, the kite-selling market in old Kabul.
"People have been flying kites [in Afghanistan] for more than 100 years. It was banned during the Taliban. They would say that kite flying was illegal. We sell and buy from 500 to 2,000 kites every day in our shop. The Taliban banned this and used to beat children when they flew kites. Long ago, kite flying was part of our national games, and my father won a trophy 25 years ago during [former Afghan President Mohammad] Daud Khan's time."
Jawid gives a tour of his shop, pointing out the spools, the various lengths of wire, and the bright kites themselves, in many different sizes, or "parcha."
"This is a spool. Those are smaller ones for kids -- about 100 [meters] up to 500 meters in length. Those are 4,000- to 5,000-meter spools that are used by adults. These are for kids. These are different kites. For example, this is four parcha [having four parts]. There is five parcha. And that is seven parcha. That is half parcha (one of the smallest). That is farfara, which is made of plastic. And that is eight parcha (the largest)."
Done In Secret
The kites cost from 2,000 afghanis -- just a few cents -- for tiny children's kites no bigger than a magazine, to 100,000 afghanis -- less than $2 -- for large kites usually handled only by the most experienced flyers.
Jawid says he still sold kites during the days of the Taliban, but that everywhere it was done in secret.
"During the Taliban, we were doing our business here, but if they found out, they would come and destroy our kites, spools, and other stuff, as they did many times. They burned our kites and other stuff, asking who the owner was. But we could not say anything, because if they knew, they would imprison us in Amribelmaroof [prison]."
Winter is one of the most popular times for kite flying in Afghanistan. The winds are strong, and schools are closed because of the cold weather.
While it brings mostly smiles, kite flying is also dangerous. Many people are injured when they fall from roofs chasing free kites or when they lose concentration during a heated battle.
Thirty-six-year-old Sharif is flying a kite beside the dry, trash-filled bed of the Kabul River in central Kabul. He says he's been flying kites for about 20 years, always on Fridays.
Sharif recalls the glory days of kite flying in Kabul, before the Taliban.
"Before the Taliban, people used to fly kites in a place called Chaman-i-Babrak [in northern Kabul], and kite flying competitions were held there. Kids, young people, and older people from all over Afghanistan and Kabul City would gather there. They used to lay wagers on fighting kites."
Sharif smiles. He wants to get back to his kite flying. There is a battle to be won.