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My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Hussain referenced the 15 deaths of people the use of the thread contributed to over two years, as well as the thousands of birds it has killed or injured, according to The Indian Express.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: In Delhi, Zulfikar Hussain petitioned the High Court in May to ban manja before the country’s independence day. Kite fighting – made known to many Westerners by the 2003 novel “The Kite Runner" by Afghan writer Khaleed Hosseini and the 2008 film made from the book – is enormously popular throughout the Indian subcontinent, as well as in South America, and parts of the United States.Īs manja has increased in popularity in India, environmentalists and others have called on officials to ban the thread. The string is turned dangerously sharp to slash other kites out of the sky. Manja – known as “cerol” in Brazil and “hilo curado” in Chile – is thread that is gummed, and covered in an invisible, powdered glass or shards. The three deaths and other injuries served as the final impetus for the ban in the capital, as well as helping to publicize the dangers of the string. The city government issued an immediate ban on the production, sale, and storage of the string, and anyone caught with it could face a five-year jail term and a $1,500 (100,000-rupee) fine, according to Agence France Presse.Įnvironmentalists and others have petitioned Delhi and the country for years to ban the sharp thread. But this pastime turned deadly in Delhi Monday when kite strings laced with glass unintentionally cut a motorcyclist and two toddlers who had been peering out of sunroofs.įollowing the three deaths, the Indian capital outlawed Thursday the glass-coated string, known in India as Chinese manja. Every year, thousands of Indians take to rooftops and terraces on the country’s independence day to kite fight, maneuvering their kites to cut through the thread of their opponents.
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