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Red, Rituals & Chilly Nights: What to Wear for Karwa Chauth in New Zealand

There is something beautifully dramatic about Karwa Chauth: a whole day of fasting, followed by a dressed-up wait for one very important moonrise. In Delhi, the festival is usually about a warm balcony at dusk. But in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch, it means a deck, a garden or a rooftop, a spring evening with a temper, […]

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9 Red Outfits to Make Your UK Karwa Chauth Look Anything But Traditional

Karwa Chauth in Britain has its own choreography. Sargi happens in the dark, in a cold kitchen, at an unreasonable hour. Then comes the long day of tea you cannot drink. By evening, the flat smells of ghee and mehendi. Somebody’s mum is on video call from Ludhiana. The moon, meanwhile, is hiding behind a […]

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