Considering the ill-effects of Chinese manjha, the kite flying ustads have appealed people not to use the 'killer strings'.Sixty-nine-year-old Ustad Haji Abdul Latif is a worried man. Jaipur ...

"I was holding it. That cut it. Good fight." Unlike ordinary kite lines, fighter kites use manjha, string encrusted with glass paste. This is the essential weapon of a fighter kite....and one that ...

But in recent years, Indian kite fighters have been using sharp nylon or synthetic strings coated with powdered glass called Chinese manjha — Chinese string, in Hindi — that is almost ...

From kids accompanying their parents to groups of youngsters, residents made a beeline to the city markets to purchase kites and manjha ahead of Makar Sankranti. Though the prices of kites and ...

Ironically, the two had bought glass-coated kite strings that police recovered from a box attached to the bike. Glass- or nylon-coated strings, better known as Chinese manjha, are known to cause ...

The main problem is not flying kites but rather using Chinese metal-coated manjha (strings), which puts both kite flyers and birds at risk. A doctor at a bird hospital in Delhi's Chandini Chowk ...

Over a hundred birds were injured or killed by banned glass-coated kite strings, colloquially called “Chinese manjha”, on Independence Day, officials said. Most of these cases were reported ...

New Delhi: Ahead of Independence Day and Rakshabandhan, Delhi’s power distribution companies issued an advisory, urging people not to use metal-coated manjha for flying kites. The discoms ...

New Delhi [India], August 18 (ANI): Delhi Police arrested eight kite flyers from Geeta Colony area for allegedly using Chinese manjha. Due to the menace of Chinese Manjha and the recent incidents ...

Those found buying, selling, procuring, and storing Chinese kite strings (manjha) in districts under Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly zone will now be booked by the police. Issuing the order, Additional ...

production and storage of the thread popularly known as Chinese manjha, named after the country which produces and exports the cheap and durable strings popular among kite-flying enthusiasts in India.

When he discovered that we were shooting on a terrace he said 'let's fly kites!' I thought it was a great idea and I arranged for some manjha (thread) and patangs (kites). We shot a little and ...