Basant Festival Happening Again in Pakistan Ever

Once again, waiting and missing Basant ever since, when the skies of Lahore would see a curtain of colors. Basant, a festival of joy and entertainment, has become significantly dangerous for those involved in the festival and passersby. Of course, the general public still partakes in kite-flying however, Basant is not as grand as it once was and for all the right reasons. The way is not to close it down but to strongly regulate it. It needs to be protected, since it was the only time that the old city becomes one family, from street boys to multinationals.

People who oppose Basant think:

• Basant will cause major deaths on the roads; most involving little children and motorcyclists,
• People would engage in aerial firing in the ecstasy of the festival,
• People falling from the rooftop,
• Glass-coated strings would lead to several fatal bruises (The cords which started being built near PCSIR, Ferozepur or got introduced by Kite Makers like Liaquat from Ichra are razor-sharp (kfc, lb, or lm fromulae) so they can slash the strings of rival kites during aerial duels, but when they fall across roads they become “like cheese wire”, according to one policeman),
• Tripping of Several Electric Feeders (as to when the clutch wire, annexed to “tandi” with a “chameroo” shorts the transmission line) causing trouble for the patients on Life-saving machines,
• Electrocution is also reported,
• Hard-line Muslims oppose it as a waste of money and consider it a Hindu festival.

Make Safe Basant:

• Selling or manufacturing glass and chemical-coated kite strings should be banned (All the manufactures of that “Chemical” Dorr the Nylon string one should be prosecuted and this festival should be restored.),
• Allowing kite-flying at parks,
• Constitution of Committees to regulate no chameroo zone and restricting people who cross all limits of sanity during enjoyment,
• Banning of “Charkhi” and use of “Pinna” instead,
• No thread thicker than pantees minar not even pachees minar and GOD FORBID “16 no dor”
• Allowing kite flying with ordinary twine only,
• Try to protect motorcyclists from the killer twine by installing free antennas,
• Ban on freely running kite looters (luteray) also the use of Chamba
• There should be kite-flying zones for professionals like the use of Gaddafi Stadium, Minto Park, towards Qasoor.

Today, I play Pipa Combate 3D as I miss Basant.

GLOSSARY OF SOME POPULAR KITE FLYING TERMS:

i bo kata or kat kat kata – I have cut

dheel – furthering

guddi kaghaz – kite paper

chepi – adhesive tape

charkhi or charakhri – spool of kite thread calculated in goats

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dummy lgana – action of slowly releasing the flying string during a match

utton di rakh k or thalon di rakh k – certain maneuvers when you combat from beneath or above in the combat

chrika maaran – trying to cause sudden pulses in order to get a knot released or cause a jerk during a paich

kunni khana – the revolution of a kite

kunni dena – the act of giving help in order to release it well into the air in first attempt

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