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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Dahanu's Ashok creates world's first diamond-studded kite
Ashok Shah of Dahanu and his wife hold up the diamond-studded kite he created; Shah stood first at the Ahmedabad international kite fest in 2008
"After I created my first fancy kite in 1993, the international kiting community noticed me and invited me for the international kite festival at Ahmedabad in 1994," said Shah.
During the festival, Shah was awed by the variety of colourful kites. "I was a bit tense and hesitated to fly my kite, since it was the smallest and not as hi-tech as the other kites in the festival. I had approached an American participant to know more about making hi-tech kites. But he refused to talk. I made up my mind and decided to participate in the festival with equally hi-tech kites after three years."
Once back in Dahanu, Shah started collecting information on kite-making from all over the world. After three years of hard work, he came up with 200 different kite designs, from an inch-long one to India's longest kite -- 200 ft high and weighing seven kg. Shah also created the first diamond-studded kite in the world, apart from kites of various shapes, sizes and dimensions. He won the first prize at the international kite festival held at Ahmedabad in January last year.
Since 1994, Mumbai has been appearing on the map of international kite festivals after he started participating in them.
For Shah, the only participant from Maharashtra at the international kite festival, what started as a demand by his children fordifferent kites, has today become a passion.
"After I created my first fancy kite in 1993, the international kiting community noticed me and invited me for the international kite festival at Ahmedabad in 1994," said Shah.
During the festival, Shah was awed by the variety of colourful kites. "I was a bit tense and hesitated to fly my kite, since it was the smallest and not as hi-tech as the other kites in the festival. I had approached an American participant to know more about making hi-tech kites. But he refused to talk. I made up my mind and decided to participate in the festival with equally hi-tech kites after three years."
Once back in Dahanu, Shah started collecting information on kite-making from all over the world. After three years of hard work, he came up with 200 different kite designs, from an inch-long one to India's longest kite -- 200 ft high and weighing seven kg. Shah also created the first diamond-studded kite in the world, apart from kites of various shapes, sizes and dimensions. He won the first prize at the international kite festival held at Ahmedabad in January last year.
Since 1994, Mumbai has been appearing on the map of international kite festivals after he started participating in them.
For Shah, the only participant from Maharashtra at the international kite festival, what started as a demand by his children fordifferent kites, has today become a passion.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Dahanu: The Cool Place
Dahanu is a pleasant place situated near coast of Arabian Sea it is about 150km. away from Mumbai (towards north). Having population of around 1.5 Lacs, people of Dahanu have employment and business opportunities from various resources such as fishing, farming, and small and large scale industries. Dahanu is famous for chickoo farming
Major attraction over here is a beach also called as ‘Parnaka beach’ which is just 5 km. far from Dahanu Railway station. There are various religious functions held every year such as ‘mahalaxmi Yatra’ held at Charoti about 24 kms. From Dahanu it comes in month of April which attracts guests from local places as well as outside population. Muslims celebrate ‘Urs’ (fair) held at ‘Peer Shaikh Baba’Dargah in the month of January.
There have been various Industrial establishments in recent years.
Dahanu has got industrial location called ‘Vadkun’ where various small scale industries can be found. There to large scale establishments the one is Universal Capsules Ltd Dahanu also knows as ACG LTD situated at Ashagad Village about 5 kms from Dahanu its a empty hard gelatin capsules manufactururing plant the other large company is 2 X 250 MW Thermal Power Station which belongs to Reliance Infrastructure Ltd situated at Agwan village About 5km from Dahanu.
Major attraction over here is a beach also called as ‘Parnaka beach’ which is just 5 km. far from Dahanu Railway station. There are various religious functions held every year such as ‘mahalaxmi Yatra’ held at Charoti about 24 kms. From Dahanu it comes in month of April which attracts guests from local places as well as outside population. Muslims celebrate ‘Urs’ (fair) held at ‘Peer Shaikh Baba’Dargah in the month of January.
There have been various Industrial establishments in recent years.
Dahanu has got industrial location called ‘Vadkun’ where various small scale industries can be found. There to large scale establishments the one is Universal Capsules Ltd Dahanu also knows as ACG LTD situated at Ashagad Village about 5 kms from Dahanu its a empty hard gelatin capsules manufactururing plant the other large company is 2 X 250 MW Thermal Power Station which belongs to Reliance Infrastructure Ltd situated at Agwan village About 5km from Dahanu.
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