What Husbands Think of Karva Chauth - India Real Time - WSJ: "Chartered accountant Kush Goel, 33 years old, says that his wife, who keeps this fast, “turns cranky by evening and increases my blood pressure. Then (she) asks for expensive gifts.”
Last year, she had asked for a car “so it turned out to be a ‘car lao chauth’ (bring car chauth)!” says Mr. Goel.
Karva Chauth is mainly observed in parts of north India, with women dressing up in colorful clothes with matching bangles and jewelry, and sporting henna on their hands. In the strictest form, women are not supposed to eat or drink after sunrise until the moon rises in the evening. They break their fast upon seeing their husband or his picture.
In all likelihood, Mr. Goel is in a minority of husbands who would rather their wives didn’t keep this fast. But an anecdotal survey of half a dozen men — comprising friends of friends, a colleague, a distant cousin and an office employee – revealed that most men don’t believe they will live longer if their wives starve themselves."
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