Follow-Up: Kite Flying Is A Way Of Life In Afghanistan
As a timely follow-up to the round on Wednesday about Kites (and the question about Afghanistan), The IHT has a rather nice story about a relatively healthy social activity happening in a place where we haven’t heard a lot of good things lately.
The big kite-fighting day is Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, when thousands of boys and men flock to their rooftops and to the summits of the craggy hills that ring the city, carrying stacks of kites fashioned from bamboo and brightly colored tissue paper, and miles of sharp string on wooden spools.
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