The debate over whether fasting represents women's subjugation or their strength and the significance of faith, isn't one that's going to be resolved anytime soon. (And, again, full disclosure: a personal connection that I probably need to dissect my own unresolved resentment over.) There's the yearly off-screen noise around it too: a viral Twinkle Khanna column the now well-worn arguments about how it reinforces misogyny and the patriarchy and how even the sporadic attempts to make the festival more egalitarian - fasting husbands a la SRK - don't exactly make it feminist (".the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"). ![]() As an agnostic, (mostly) South Indian, my overlap with Karwa Chauth has been restricted to these screen manifestations.
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