We may be sharing more than just a border with our neighbours. Patangbaazi – or the love of flying kites – may just be the common thread we have always been looking for.

Hemant Dave, an entrepreneur from Ahmedabad, who sells high quality kites and related accessories online, has maximum orders coming in from – wait for it, Pakistan. During Makar Sankranti, when most of western India, especially Gujarat, celebrates its biggest kite festival called Uttarayan, Dave sells hundreds of kites across the world and it is Pakistan who picks up most of the stuff.