{"id":2517,"date":"2002-10-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/26\/2002-10-26-tihar-inmates-join-rest-of-north-india-and-celebrate-karva-chauth\/"},"modified":"2002-10-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-26T12:00:00","slug":"2002-10-26-tihar-inmates-join-rest-of-north-india-and-celebrate-karva-chauth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/26\/2002-10-26-tihar-inmates-join-rest-of-north-india-and-celebrate-karva-chauth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tihar Inmates Join Rest of North India and Celebrate Karva Chauth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/printedition\/261002\/detCIT19.shtml\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, October 25, 2002: The beauty parlor at Tihar Jail was the scene of unusual rush this week. The effort put in by the parlor staff was evident in Jail No. 6 where the women inmates looked strikingly beautiful this Karva Chauth (Husband&#8217;s Day). Dressed in their best saris, new back clips and hair specially set for the occasion, they performed the rituals of the festival. &#8220;Preparations for Karva Chauth have been going on for weeks in the jail,&#8221; said Superintendent Sunita Sabharwal. &#8220;Most inmates have kept a fast today. Much of the stock of puja items and make-up accessories stored in the canteen has been sold out,&#8221; Sabharwal said. The jail authorities also got the inmates a cable TV connection as a Karva Chauth gift. As a concession, the fasting women were granted a leave from their work. Since the women inmates are locked up at 6:30 p.m., the moon ritual is done by the head matron, who tells them when the moon rises &#8212; the moment at which they may break their fast. Also, for the first time, this North Indian festival where women worship their husbands will be a holiday in all-girls&#8217; schools run by the government of Delhi. Friday&#8217;s holiday is for the benefit of women teachers, who make up almost the entire teaching staff in the girls&#8217; schools. Until last year, Karva Chauth used to be a restricted holiday on which most women teachers skipped work, but this year, the government decided to declare a holiday. Boys&#8217; and coeducational schools will, however, remain open.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, October 25, 2002: The beauty parlor at Tihar Jail was the scene of unusual rush,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}