Kite Alive is a story about Mehmood a kite maker by profession who was widely renowned in the city for his elaborate kites The writer talks about his variety of kites and how each one stood out from the other and left the entire city awestruck whenever they were made to fly high in the sky One such kite at the request of the Nawab was the epitome of beauty It consisted of a series of small very light paper disks trailing on a thin bamboo frame and there was a slightly convex fantastic face painted to each end of the disk with eyes made out of mirrors The disks assumed an undulatory form as ...