Staff photo / Bob Coupland Gabby Armstrong, 12, of Niles, center, and Ella de Blok, 8, of Austitnown, right, wait as Juriaan de Blok of Austintown prepares a kite for flying at the Kite Festival ...

Kites of different hues and shapes adorned the sky at Tannirbhavi beach as the two-day ONGC-MRPL ... in Mangaluru is conducive and ideal for flying kites,” he said, and added that he landed ...

"You couldn't go out, you couldn't take your children to the park, so people resorted to kite-flying to pass their time," says Shahida Rehman, who manages a kite business with her son in Mumbai.