Tomorrow is Teej. So
today is ‘Dar khane din’ where every younger female relatives of a family are
invited and served with delicious foods (‘dar’) and deserts and presented with
gifts like tika(bindi in Hindi), bangles, pote (necklace of beads) etc. The food basically
involves proteins, carbohydrate, and hydrating fruits like mutton, fish,
rice/pulao, rice pudding, spinach, cucumber pickle and some Indian sweets. The
reason to include all those things to eat today so that it will be easier to
take fast tomorrow because you cannot eat or drink a thing tomorrow.
Normally, people don’t
eat meat product day before their fast but for Teej, it’s ok to eat meat
product. In Kathmandu, and other city area new tradition has been introduced to
arrange this ‘Dar’ program from like months beforehand by many women clubs and
women related organization. And women
More on how we
celebrate Teej tomorrow. Stay tuned!
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