Happy Karva Chauth guys! Here's to our long lives and our awesome lady loves. For those unaware of this event, it is a one-day festival celebrated by Northern Indian (Hindu) women where married women fast from sunrise to moonrise for the safety and longevity of their husbands. The festival falls on the fourth (Chauth) day after the full moon. The story of origin of this festival are many, bu one hypothesis is that military wives would often pray for their husband's safe return, and conduct a day-long fast as a sacrificial means for a positive outcome. The festival also coincides with the wheat-sowing time, where big earthen pots in which wheat is stored are sometimes called Karvas, so the fast may have begun as a prayer for a good harvest in this predominantly wheat-eating region.
So, all this means that married women eat before dawn and after moonrise (traditionally sighting the moon through a sieve) and then drinking their first sip of water—which in itself is an incredible feast, as I get weak-kneed when it comes to food, so lord... thank you for birthing me as a man! :) But that said, I try my best to be there for wife, and made her this breakfast pre-dawn