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Kite Flying and Business
Kite flying is one of the most popular sports and festival in India. According to the Greek literature, kite-flying dates back to as old as 14th century and later came to India and other Asian countries. Kite Festival in India is popular the worldwide and celebrated with great fun and fervor. Watching the colorful sky during the kite festival is indeed a feast to the eyes.

Men's inherent wish to fly high and reach the sky would have surely made him invent the kite and fly it high, somewhere giving him the feeling and the satisfaction that he can fly and touch the sky as high as he wants.

Kites are attached to a thread rolled in a pinball and flown against the direction of the wind. Kite flying is lot of fun but the real excitement lies in cutting in each other's kites. The more kites you cut the more expert you are.

When comparing kite flying to business or management, there are a lot of similarities in both of them. A close analysis of all the aspects of both these activities reveals a very close connection between them. There is a lot to learn from kite flying – a common activity we ignore taking advice and advantage of in business or management. The similarities are as follows :

Kite flying is not an easy task. Just like business, it involves various skill and talent to take the sky high up in the sky. The heavy burden of flying the kite could prove to be tiresome for any amateur trying it for the first time. In the same way, a new entrepreneur just entering the field of business has in front of himself a bag full of trouble. Overcoming them and establishing a company or firm of his own takes a lot of effort.

There are many different forms of business organization such as sole proprietorship, partnership, company form of organization, Hindu united family, etc. Keeping in mind these forms of organizations, there are different ways in which people fly kites. Some people have the skill and talent to fly the kite on their own like sole

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