Spring Celebration
Kite flying is a traditional part of Nauroz or New Year celebrations in many parts of Afghanistan. We celebrated the Delhi spring by making and decorating our own kites at the Simurgh Centre. This was accompanied by music and performances of popular Afghan songs. There was also a reading from Mardara Qawl Ast (A Real Man Keeps his Word) by famous Afghan writer Akram Osman.
Kite flying is a traditional part of Nauroz or New Year celebrations in many parts of Afghanistan. We celebrated the Delhi spring by making and decorating our own kites at the Simurgh Centre.
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In a very special session, Delhi-based filmmaker Anupama Chandra, who grew up in Kabul in the 1970s, shared vignettes and memories from what she described as “the most beautiful spring in the world”. To the delight of the audience, she showed some objects she had saved for nearly 40 years, including the dried leaf of a chinar tree from Kabul, and a glove that her sister had lost in the deep snows of winter, and retrieved in the spring.
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Kite flying is a traditional part of Nauroz or New Year celebrations in many parts of Afghanistan. We celebrated the Delhi spring by making and decorating our own kites at the Simurgh Centre.
| © Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
In a very special session, Delhi-based filmmaker Anupama Chandra, who grew up in Kabul in the 1970s, shared vignettes and memories from what she described as “the most beautiful spring in the world”. To the delight of the audience, she showed some objects she had saved for nearly 40 years, including the dried leaf of a chinar tree from Kabul, and a glove that her sister had lost in the deep snows of winter, and retrieved in the spring.-
Celebrating the spring in Delhi by making and flying kites. -
Filmmaker Anupama Chandra with mementos of her childhood in Kabul -
Celebrating the spring in Delhi by making and flying kites.
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