Ahmedabad, the largest city in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, boasts 30-odd museums but the Kite Museum in the 607-year-old world heritage city is in a class of its own. The kite-flying season begins in December but visitors walking into this comparatively small treasure house of paperbirds any time of the year are instantly transported into the midst of the cacophonic, festive revelry when the sky is dotted with multi-hued kites flown by merry-making men, women and children packed like sardines on rooftops as loudspeakers belt out latest Bollywood songs.
Indeed, the 125 original, brightly-coloured, unusual kites of all sizes, shapes and materials placed in vertically-mounted glass panels backlit by white, fluorescent tubelights to simulate a background resembling a sunny sky are sure to take your breath away as you go round in well-illuminated passageways.
Add to this the 250-odd eye-catching....
