{"id":4747,"date":"2004-11-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/09\/2004-11-09-women-in-northern-india-celebrate-husband-s-day\/"},"modified":"2004-11-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T12:00:00","slug":"2004-11-09-women-in-northern-india-celebrate-husband-s-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/09\/2004-11-09-women-in-northern-india-celebrate-husband-s-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Northern India Celebrate Husband&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/autofeed.msn.co.in\/pandorav3\/output\/News\/b8559742-1d59-460f-9cbe-82c92887da2b.aspx\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 31, 2004: Across northern India every year, Indian women participate in a husband&#8217;s day festival right before the grand festival of lights, Deepavali. This year is no exception, and 50-year-old Nirmal Sharma says, &#8220;The day is an expression of my feelings for my husband, when I can show to him that in spite of our differences and our regular little tiffs, I love him more than anyone in the world.&#8221; The news release explains further, &#8220;Sharma marks Karva Chauth (where the rituals center around a karva or earthen pot) true to its traditions &#8212; having a bite of coconut and a sip of milk before sunrise, not touching any food or drink through the day, offering water and praying in front of the moon at night before sighting her husband&#8217;s face through a sieve and breaking her fast with puris and sweets.&#8221; Greeting card companies have cashed in on the festivities by producing cards especially for this occasion. The celebration also has a history surrounding a legend where a queen prayed to a Goddess to win back her husband who was infatuated by another woman. Even young unmarried girls have started to celebrate the day by fasting. Nidhi Gupta, a 23-year-old unmarried college student, says, &#8220;I do it just to enjoy the festivities. My mother marks it. So does my sister-in-law. It&#8217;s just fun to join them, wear my best clothes and receive gifts. After all, why should anyone mind a good reason to celebrate?&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, October 31, 2004: Across northern India every year, Indian women participate in a husband&#8217;s day festival right,&#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-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","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=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}