<i>Theatre in Inani beach air</i>
Hundreds of kites in the forms and colours of marine creatures, including red tortoises, dolphins, lobsters, jellyfish, mermaids and purple sharks along with rainbow coloured butterflies, cobras, birds and insects flew over the skyline of Inani sea beach in Cox's Bazaar yesterday.
The beach, located 35 kilometres off the tourism town of Cox's Bazar, had its skyline adorned with colours as kites in the forms of living creatures of marine ecosystem soared, fluttered and circled in the air.
A number of local and foreign tourists, who came to the beach on a pleasure trip, enjoyed the fantastic theatre in the sky.
It was a kite festival organised by Chhobir Hat, an organisation of Dhaka-based artists of different fine art institutes.
As many as 22 kite makers and 50 flyers from the capital came here to participate in the festival. Hundreds of children from the local community joined the fiesta.
The enthusiastic viewers, especially children, became more ecstatic when they received some 500 kites from Chhobi Ghar members for free of cost. Their joys knew no bounds.
Kite flying was not the bottom line or focal point of Chhobi Ghar, rather it was aimed at giving the children a place to spread their dreams inside their minds, said noted cartoonist Bipul Saha, a member of the organisation.
Like many other things, the tradition of kite flying is also on the extinct. With it, the dreams of children to soar with their minds are also becoming lost as well. The aim of the festival is to give those children a world to hover on their dreams, he added.
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