5 reasons you should fly kites in Kathmandu every Dashain

There was a time when kites were flown all around the year in Kathmandu, so the story goes. Whenever people of the valley had time to spare, they would go to the fields with their lattai and fly kites. They would not think much about the inconvenience the birds of the valley were facing.

Every day, a number of birds got entangled in the manjha and others suffered cuts. This ruffled their feathers (literally).