On 6th January 2019, the international kite festival inaugurated in Ahmadabad. The kite fest usually celebrated ahead of Uttarayan or Makar Sankranti, the day when winter season starts changing to summer and farmers welcome the approaching harvest season. Besides kite flyers from India, 45 different countries also took part in the festival at Sabarmati River Front. This year, the Gujarat government also decided to organise a kite festival at Kevadia, the site of the Statue of Unity, a memorial to Sardar Patel and also the world’s tallest statue.
