What To Wear: 6 Best Karva Chauth Ensembles

Express your love for her in the most special way.

Celebrated with great fervour in North India, married women start preparing for the festival a few days in advance.

Wife fasting on Karva Chauth signifies the long life of her husband, and it is not fun.

Ironically, it’s believed that a mixture of a quick, prayers and the blessings of the lunar deity helps ladies to realize energy to confront and stop unlucky occasions for his or her husbands.

Karva Chauth is a big deal for Indian women.

Aside from purchasing bangles of different hues and designs, applying mehndi (henna) on their hands is the most sought after by women during Karva Chauth. That being said, the second trimester is an easier and safer time for you to do the same. It’s a mythological saying that Draupadi used to observe fast after she got married but once so happened that Arjun went to Nilgiris for penance and in his absence his brothers faced lot of problems. On the day of the fast, women from Punjab awake to eat and drink just before sunrise. Sargi- a food hamper that mother-in-law gifts to her daughter-in-law which includes food items such as nuts, vermicelli kheer and even mathri.

The reason: all and sundry in Surir town, which has a population of 12,000, believe in a three hundred year old curse, when a man was killed for cattle theft on the day his wife observed the fast. Her brothers tricked her to see that the moon has risen and that she should break her fast.

The Karva chauth katha is read out aloud as the thali with a sweet, glass of water, a diya and other puja materials is passed around in a circle. While Sonal’s partner is out of city for business, she will break the fast looking at him on a video call. “Then married women are supposed to keep a fast until the moon appears in the sky”. Opt for light and easily digestible foods like idli,dosa, uttapam with sambhar/ vegetables, dalia, oat meal chapatti with vegetables or paneer bhurji/steamed rice or pulao with dal, etc.