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Reclaiming Karva Chauth


When I moved to the North of India, Karva Chauth stopped being a trope in Hindi movies and became a real live thing- dinners were delayed and events were cancelled because of it; and there were all round me, on that day the oxymoron of simultaneous fasting and celebration. I was at that time a young mother, unsure writer and part time teacher, so I just allowed it all to drift past me without engagement 




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