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Don’t Touch Red Saris: Says Komal Oli
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 30, 2013: speaking at the special event held on the occasion of celebrating women festival called ‘teez’ in Damak: eastern Nepal on August 28, 2013, famous folk singer Komal Oli said that the Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA) should not go after women how lavishly women spent on celebrating once a year women festival called ‘teez’ rather go after the private hospitals and pharmacists that have been providing services at the low standard and earning illegally, and after those people that have become millionaires or billionaires overnight through illegal businesses, according to the news in ‘grokhapatra’ of yesterday.
‘Teez’ is the women festival celebrated in Nepal. Married women celebrate ‘teez’ for the long lives of their husbands, and unmarried for having the husbands of their choice taking the whole day fasting, and visiting the shrines of Lord Shiva singing and dancing on the way and making offerings to the lord. Women break the fast after offering the blessing of Lord Shiva in the form of vermillion, flower and fruits to their husbands.
The popular belief is that Parvati has got Lord Shiva as her spouse after taking the fasting on this day and pleasing Lord Shiva. Nepalese women emulate Parvarti every year. On this day, thousands of women dressed in red saris and blouses line up at the shrine to Lord Pashupati at Gaushala in Kathmandu. On this day, only women have the access to Lord Pashupati.
On the eve of the ‘teez’ festival, women dine on a lavish feast until late night. On this day, women don’t do anything. Men do all cooking and household chores. Thus, once a year, women have the household holiday. This year, ‘teez’ is on September 9.
