⚡Ban on Kite Flying Continues in Fatehpura Village in Gujarat for 16th Year During Makar Sankrant

A ban was imposed on the festivity in 1996, after two youths were electrocuted and a child drowned in a well while flying kites. Following the tragedies, the villagers decided against the sport, Maljibhai Chaudhary, an elderly of the village, told the media.