A belated celebration of women

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A few weeks before I left Nepal, women across the country put on their best red saris and celebrated the Hindu women's festival, Teej. The idea of Teej being a "women's festival" is slightly misleading, as the primary focus of the festival is not to celebrate women, but to give women the chance to fast for a few days and pray for the health and long lives of their husbands. But I suppose what sets Teej apart from most other Hindu holidays in Nepal (during which women typically fast and pray for the health and long lives of their husbands) is that women combine their self-sacrificing devotion to men with an opportunity to play dress up, get together with all their friends and relatives, and sing and dance until they literally pass out (because they haven't eaten all day). Clearly my take on the holiday was a rather superficial one and I could have used an education in the spiritual and cultural justifications for the holiday, but alas I chose instead to wander around Kathamndu's main temple complex (Pashupatinath) in blissful ignorance and take lots of photos of beautiful women in red. Here they are, almost a month later...

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