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Hundred Happy Things: The power of love

Sorry for being late. You can blame it on the type of person that I am, procrastinator, lazy and laid back.  Going through the karvachauth posts, seeing the merriment around and witnessing the excitement some of my colleagues and neighbours have shown, I felt lonelier than usual. It was not the depressing loneliness, just a little sad reminder. You have some bad days in a relationship. You just have them more frequently if you are in a long distance. Switching on the TV didn't help. This whole debate about whether Karvachauth is a celebration of love and faith or a pure antifeminist mission to suppress women gave me a headache. The male panellists seemed frustrated on lack of their respective wives' devotion to them, the females certainly were not fasting. The anchor was not particularly handsome either. No reasons to keep watching this mindless drama.  Before you judge me, I am not anti karvachauth. I don't observe it myself, I wish I did. Plainly because the