From husbands joining their wives in fast, women breaking their fast through video chat to many single girls also observing the custom, women on Saturday did all they could to celebrate Karva Chauth with gusto. It may have become
more popular for the multi-million rupee business it has found in jewellery, clothes, gifts and fancy accessories, but women observed Karva Chauth as tradition demands it, albeit with a touch of modernism.
“It’s the 10th year of my marriage, and me and my husband decided to celebrate by fasting together. This is how you stand together through thick and thin in marriage,” 36-year old Devika Kathuria, a resident of Paschim Vihar in west Delhi, said. Devika’s husband has no qualms about joining his wife in observing the age-old custom as he feels “it’s not just the wife who needs to pray for husband’s long life”.
“My mother was a bit perplexed to know our plans, but then I wanted to do something like this since my marriage,” confessed Romesh, Devika’s husband.
There was excitement in markets and malls as women made beelines to buy the goodies or to beauty parlours to spruce themselves up. — IANS