On November 4, 2020, Hindus will be celebrating Karwa Chauth. It is a famous and widely-celebrated festival among Hindu women for the longevity and welfare of their husband. The festival is observed on the fourth day of Krishna Paksh (waning phase of the moon) and this year it will be coinciding with Sankashti Chaturthi. You […]
No doubt, most of these rituals are gendered. There is patriarchy at work. Like a hundred other things we are still protesting against and questioning, for conditioning women to owe their allegiance to. Some things change. Some things remain the same. Some things take their time to evolve.
If Karva Chauth is gendered, rather than eliminating it, it can be changed by involving supportive participation of both the genders. If Karva Chauth is a symbol of love, it is for both men and women.
Bollywood never fails to incorporate our values, traditions and also festivals in the movies. And so, like every other festival, Karva Chauth too has an important place in Bollywood, where love is given a unique definition.
While observing Karwa Chauth or not is a personal choice, there is a lot of social and cultural pressure around it. The most glamourous and strictest of all fasts today divides modern Indian women into two groups, who often refuse to see eye to eye. These two sets of women often end up shaming each […]
On the day of Karwa Chauth, the popular north Indian festival when women fast to ensure the longevity of their husbands, Uttar Pradesh Police started a campaign. They urged women to gift helmets to their husbands who didn’t use one, while driving a two-wheeler. According to news agency ANI, Lucknow Police stopped men riding on two-wheelers without helmets. […]
It’s that time of the year again when the air goes nippy and the feminist raise their fiery batons and charge their angst against ‘the fast’. The fast which in recent times has become the symbol of male chauvinism and patriarchy at best and a newly led phenomenon of ‘couple-fasting’. As if we needed more […]
In this modern age, the men too should fast for us say women
