Basant Festival Happening Again in Pakistan Ever

First and foremost if you are here for the investment guide book of Basant Maheshwani we are not discussing that.

Basant, the kite fighting competition, the once biggest event in the history of old Lahore is ever missed from the core of the Lahori public. Lahoris have been deprived of their right to flying colors long since 2005. Last time Lahore saw a proper Basant was when late Salman Taseer (the then Governor of Punjab) had put a Governer’s rule and declared Basant on the day of Nawaz Sharif’s Long March for the restoration of Judiciary.

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Long gone are the days that the 5 billion Rupees industry officiated multinational FMCGs sponsoring of Basant Festival in Pakistan.

We hope that people also remember that they used to get 1 Tawa on 1 liter of Petrol filled in their vehicles. Missing Basant as to how we wrestled with a kite string – illegally – at one impromptu roof party and listened to Basant song K Dil Hua Bo Kata by Fariha Pervez on repeat. Kites colored red, yellow, and blue, soaring above what a sight it was. The festival exemplified the fun-loving yet traditional spirit of the country’s most liberal city, while its emergence two decades back as a major tourist and commercial event showed Pakistan’s economy booming.

Today, the overseas Pakistanis of Sweden, Germany, KSA, and Canada cherish this sport to the fullest: Watch my tiktok video as a proof

DIFFERENT POPULAR TYPES OF KITES:

• Tukkal, or commonly named patang with further popular smaller “pendi” lower half designs such as Shastru or Teera (Popular sizes Saday-Chaar Gitthe, 5 Gitthey, 6.5 Gitthey)
• Kup with the Big Dhol and mota taa
• mondayan wala gudda the one with Prefect badges or akhan wala gudda the one with eyes
• Nikhlaow Kut with Chota Paan (used as Stright flight haath marna’ or Phenti lgana’ or khich marna‘)
• Gudda (Popular Sizes Adda Poona/Poona Tawa usally for sigrat sorrakh for lightening the weight in the discource of Chamero, Safeed Tawa, Dedh Tawa, 2.5 Tawa, 4 Tawa, 6 Tawa and the babay)
• Pari or the Para with their distinct poochal (A square with floral springs arrangement at the bottom)
• Loomar Much like a trapezoid with a poochal (also called machar; favorite combination with Paanch pande dor, could be made with polythene bags)

The biggest, or perhaps the best known, festival of Lahore, was indeed that of Basant (or Jashn-e-Baharaan) held in February each year. Basant used to be a Punjabi festival celebrating the onset of the spring season and is also called the Basant Festival of kites.

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