kites

Skateboarders, weavers, kite makers: A Smithsonian party for 'Indigenous voices'

7:42am July 06, 2024

This year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival featured "Indigenous Voices of the Americas" and was full of surprises — like Bolivian women skateboarding in traditional garb — bowler hats and poofy skirts.

Injured black kites at Wildlife Rescue, a clinic run by brothers Nadeem Shehzad and Muhammad Saud in Delhi. Over the past 12 years, they've treated nearly 26,000 of the raptors. The brothers are featured in a new prize-winning documentary, All That Breathes, opening in the U.S. this month and coming to HBO in 2023.

Health & Safety

Birds fall to Earth from Delhi's toxic skies. Two brothers are there to save them

12:26pm October 27, 2022

by Kamala Thiagarajan

Named the best documentary at Sundance and Cannes, All That Breathes explores the mission of two Muslim brothers: saving a raptor cut down by smog and deadly kite strings.

Fayes Khamal tests out a kite he's just made in the Hakimpara Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Refugee Boy Makes Magic Out Of Plastic And String

5:37pm February 13, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

In a bleak Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, a 10-year-old boy has found a way to bring joy to other kids.

Youngsters get a thrill from the kite-filled sky.

World News

Let's Go Fly A Million Kites (And Watch Them Cut Each Other)

10:09am September 19, 2015

by Andrew Boryga

Each January, the skies over cities in the Indian state of Gujarat are full of kites. It's a celebration of spring — and a chance for cutthroat competition.