With Karva Chauth four days ahead, the markets in and around the city are abuzz with women shoppers. They can be seen buying items necessary for celebrating the festival that falls on October 13.
From buying clothes to bindis and bangles, getting henna designs applied on their hands, upper arms and ankles and to buying dry fruits and sweets, women are thronging the markets. All main markets are buzzing with women shoppers and even the rising prices of essential commodities failed to deter them in the festive session.
‘Karwachauth’ is a one-day festival celebrated by Hindu women four days after ‘purnima’ (a full moon) in the month of Kartika.
‘Karwachauth’, like many Hindu festivals, is based on the lunisolar calendar which accounts for all astronomical positions, especially positions of the moon which is used as a marker to calculate important dates.
On ‘Karwachauth’ women, especially in Northern India, who are married fast from sunrise to moonrise for the safety and longevity of their husbands.
The festival falls on the fourth day after the full moon, in the Hindu lunisolar calendar month of Kartik.
Sometimes, unmarried women join the fast for their fiancés.
