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This is Love

A Sky of Kites

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

People in India have been flying kites for hundreds of years – using them to predict the weather, carry love letters, and compete in the air. But they share the sky and a name with hundreds of thousands of scavenging birds: black kites. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get to listen to This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery without any ads. Plus, you’ll get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Do you remember the first time that you ever flew a kite?

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That's, I think, maybe when I was just five or six years old, I remember hanging around with my father on the

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terrace during Makar Sanghranti, flying with a colorful kite with a string and running here and there.

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When John V. Trevedi was growing up near Aminabad, India,

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she remembers there were two days each year when the sky was filled with kites.

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