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‘Teez’: Festival Of Women In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 8, 2013: Nepalese Hindu women have been celebrating the women’s only festival called ‘teez’ today. Wearing all red: the symbol of luck for the Hindu women in Nepal, women have been visiting the shrines to Lord Shiva all over Nepal emulating Parvati to please Lord Shiva and then receiving the blessing of Lord Shiva for the married women for the long lives of husbands, and for the unmarried women for having the husbands of their choice.
The Pashupati temple of Lord Shiva at Gaushala has been sealed off for making women only to have an easy access to the lord on this day. Except for volunteers, men have been kept away from the temple. Vehicular traffic at Gaushal has been shut down for today.
Women dressed in red only have been moving around all over Nepal today. They have been singing and dancing on the way to the shrines of Lord Shiva and on the way back home, too. Singing and dancing on the streets today, Nepalese women earn merits that could ultimately make them angels in the future lives. That is certainly a belief.
Yesterday, on the eve of celebrating ‘teez’, the cadres of the UCPN-Maoist announced the Kathmandu, Chitwan and Gorkha shutdown in protest against arresting of their cadres for the murder of Krishna Prasad Adhikari in 2004 at the time of the conflict. The eve of ‘teez’ is the day for the women merrying making, and dining together with relatives and friends. So the traffic of women in red has been high. Maoist cadres wanted to stop them in protest against the arrest of their cadres for the murder.
In Kathmandu, some of the women in red saris snatched the red banners from the UCPN-Maoist cadres and chased them away from the crossroads at Kalanki. Women in red saris were ready to fight against the UCPN-Maoist cadres to make the vehicular traffic run smoothly. It must be a great lesson to anybody launching the shutdown in protest violating the fundamental human rights of the common folks to mover around with hindrance.
