“Til
gud ghya, godh godh bola” is a Marathi phrase, which means eat these sweets and speak as sweetly as them, and is used as
a greeting by people while offering sesame-sweets to each other on this
auspicious day of Makar Sankranti. This harvesting festival is celebrated throughout
India and Nepal wherein people rejoice by flying kites all day long.
Apart from this festival, these
kites also play a very prominent and important role in our lives today. Did you
know that kites were the first manmade objects to fly? That the first kite flew
in the sky over the land of Asia several thousand years ago? And that, in all
likelihood, it is possible that most pioneering aeronautical engineers and
inventors had flown kites before designing their aircraft designs! So the next
time when you hold the strings of a vibrantly coloured paper diamond to steer
it into the bright blue sky, be sure to feel the wind blowing and be grateful
for a piece of history on your finger tips. For it is this very paper diamond
that has inspired so many flying inventions that have helped us know the world
as we know it!
Here’s wishing you a very Happy
Makar Sankranti!
- Deep
Trivedi
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