WANTED: A Karva Choot for a Karva Chod!

Hindi bhasha wallas will laff….

PS: what’s wrong with long handles? (no pun intended)

Please don’t use a long handle name. Keep it short. Thanks.

Violet, once a person is divorced, they no longer have a spouse. If after divorcing they then remarry, they then have ONLY ONE spouse, that is the person they are currently married to.

Ex-husbands are not husbands.

When I was living in a small town in India the people there also assumed that somehow an ex-spouse was still a spouse and would joke and make fun of men or women who had 2 or 3 wives, when in reality, they had one wife or husband and maybe one or two EX-spouses. They did not get the idea of an ex-wife or ex-husband.

In fact, when my friend’s ex husband came to India to visit his son, she could not convince her landlord to give the man his own room. He insisted, “he is your husband, he will stay with you”.

Funny, the guy was never really her husband to begin with as they never got legally married anywhere. Nevertheless, she kept trying to explain to her landlord the concept of divorce and “ex”, but he would have none of it. The father of her child ended up staying with her, against her wishes.

Disclaimer; I’m aware that in Mumbai and a few other places in India where divorce may be more common, there are indeed people who DO understand these concepts.

Karva Chauth, where to begin. Been present in India for many a season.

In the cities there’s a standard joke that this is the one day you will find cinemas packed with ladies only, because without eating, what else do they have to do at home? (A little insight into the class system there).

As a public figure it’s good that at least Ash’s hubby is stating he will fast also. This might influence some of their male fans to do the same act of solidarity with their wives. I wonder how the mother-in-laws feel about that though? Often when a young hubby tries to cook or clean around the house to help his wife, his mother won’t allow her “prince” to do any such thing. Can’t imagine too many Indian saas’s celebrating their sons fasting in solidarity with their bahu’s. The less time spent with her the better, seems to be the motto.

The funny thing about this holiday is that at the end of the day the wife is supposed to go to the roof top of her home and hold a plate up to the sky and capture the moon’s reflection in it. Then she is supposed to feed her husband a bite of food (which she cooked while fasting), and after his bite, she then takes a bite and breaks her fast.

She was fasting all day and she has to cook? She was fasting all day and HE gets the first bite?

Once on that day I asked one man who’s wife was fasting for HIS longevity what he was doing for her, he said, “my whole life is for her, I don’t need to fast”.

Whatevs.

Gosh internet really is full of people who always have all these opinions but only a few actually have knowledge in what they are talking about

Aish never married a tree, it was just imagination of some B grade magazine and everyone ran along with it because it sounds funny..and all these pseudo intelligent desis, they found another excuse to show off how they are so “modern”.. and bash a celebrity

Every major religion has fasting as one of their components – Here is a list, and their significance.