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Kite festival.

Hi
This is my first ever attempt ... to blog..

Last week I took up a pilgrimage to break monotony of life, and seek blessing of Nathdwara. It did rejuvenated me.
My friend and his wife accompanied for the visit. Somehow i landed up extending my trip to experience kite flying of gujarat with my friends..
They had made such elaborate arrangement for the festival but somehow it never revealed the joy of kite flying or the thrill could not be experienced. Big menu of food and best of kites, I kept thinking is this what kite festival is famous for.. and why did i extended my trip.
First day my friend had usual program of kite flying from there terrace and during that gathering there was one family who had close connection with old city and they were telling how great fun it is in old city. I showed interest in visiting old city and they agreed to take all of us to old city where there in laws where staying for ages.
Next day, around late noon, we all started for old city of Ahmedabad . We drove down. As we closed in to old city, roads looked deserted and too many cops were at many corners. Again i thought may be i missed the opportunity to see real thrill or glamor of kite flying. En route i could see trees cladded with kites. telling me that we all are late to see the best of festival.
Roads being deserted which otherwise were impossible to enter, we could park our car. It looked so calm and deserted and i was not sure why we undertook this venture and bothered others. Anyway as it was planned we had to go to their in laws house. We started to walk down small lanes in old city, better known as pol' and entered further smaller lane where barely two people can walk along side. No sign of kite anywhere, now even sky was not visible from the lane. We entered their house.
It was 3 story structure. a nerrow one, with stair case to each floor within that narrow area. Its normal custom to remove shoes but we were asked not to remove our shoes and directed to go top of those 3 stories. One by one we started to go up and my my!!, when my head reached above the top roof of that home.. i was stunned by noise and glimse of sky above.. It was stunning. I could not belive what i saw. The sky was full of kites and all terraces of the area were thronging with people, man, woman, boys girls, old and young with all kind of music on tap recorder. It was unimaginable what i saw, it was like 'joy' pouring out from sky and i was bathing in it.. Almost whole of city was on top of roof. As if bhagwan was pouring energy and all of us were tapping that... it filled my heart and thoughts.overwhelming site, and i realized what that kite festival in gujarat is all about.. Never had experienced such joy in life.
This was why the deserted look was all about. The jolt of reaching to terrace was such stunning that i will never forget such joyful experience ever.. and dont think i can experience it again having seen it once..
I am so glad that i had not assumed anything and stayed over.. That instant is gift of life long joy