Makar Sankranti Kites

Makar Sankranti is a festival of India that comes on January 14 every year. The Sun goes to uttarayan from this day according to Indian astrology. Makar Sankranti is pronounced and spelled as Sankranthi in South India. Hence it is called Makar Sankranthi in South India. Makar Sankranti is the day of fun with flying kites. People celebrate this festival with colorful kite flying.

Watch the colourful sky on the day of makar sankranti because of many peoples enjoys this day with different small and big kites fly. People enjoy the colorful kite flying on this day. Makar sankranti festival is celebrated with pomp and zeal as the Kite Flying Day of India.

Makar Sankranti Kite Flying

Sankranti means 'change' and 'Makar' means 'Capricorn', consequently Makar Sankranti is the day when the glorious Sun-God begins its superiority and entry into the Northern Hemisphere. It is when Sun transferring from Sagittarius and goes to Capricorn during the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere (Uttarayana).

Makar Sankranti is popularly known a kite flying festival or kite festival in several parts of India. Gujrat, Jaipur and Rajasthan are famous for their kite festivals. Jaipur organizes international kite festival every year. Makar Sankranti is an accepted word in Rajasthan where as Utran (derived from Uttarayan in Sanskrit language) is in Gujrat. Basant Panchami is most popular for kite festival in some places of India.

Makar Sankranti Kite flying is called Patang in Hindi language. Hence the festival is also referred as Patang utsav in India. Patang is also called Guddi in several places in northern India. Special type of thread is used to fly kites and that is called Manjha. The sky gets full of colorful kites, which got height in the air and at the evening kites carry candle lamps. Some people decorate kites very well and then fly. On the day of Makar Sankranti the kites looks like many stars in the night.