Karwa Chauth

The one night the moon is the least of it.

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Karwa Chauth is a day spent waiting. Sargi before dawn, then nothing — no food, no water — through an ordinary working day that everybody else treats as ordinary, until a moon that is always later than the almanac promised. The card you can buy for it says "Happy Karwa Chauth" over a woman in a red chunni, which is a picture of the ritual and not a word about the person.

This template is built around the waiting rather than the ritual. A counter runs live to moonrise, so the page is doing the same thing you are doing all evening. Underneath it: the years you have already done this, the photographs from the balcony, and the sentence you would not say out loud with the family in the room.

Good for
Karwa Chauth · A first Karwa Chauth after the wedding · Karva Chauth apart
Works for
A wife · A husband · A partner who fasts too

A live countdown to the moon

The counter runs to moonrise and keeps running while they read it. Set your own city and date — it recalculates on every visit rather than baking in a number.

The moon through the chhalni, not clip art

The only ornament is the sieve you actually look through, drawn in deep red over a gold moon. It reads as Karwa Chauth to anyone who has stood on that balcony, without a single heart.

Written for both of you

More couples fast together every year, and the words adapt to whoever is sending it. The example is a wife writing to a husband who fasts too and complains about it.

Twelve colourways

Every template comes in all twelve. Change it in one tap while you edit — each one is contrast-checked so the words stay readable.

  • Marigold

  • Terracotta

  • Rose

  • Plum

  • Sage

  • Teal

  • Slate

  • Sand

  • Indigo

  • Coral

  • Olive

  • Ink

Or have a song written for them

A recording made for one page — written from the names, places and ordinary moments on it, then added to the page itself. The page is the same either way; the song is what changes.

₹199 — the page
You can still link a song they already know, free.
₹599 — the page and a song
The total, not an addition. The page arrives straight away; the recording follows by email.

Examples, not customers. Each of these was generated by the same model the product uses, from a written brief — nobody in them is a real person, and none of them is anybody’s gift.

Cinematic bloomEnglish

For my wife on our tenth anniversary. We moved cities twice, argued about a sofa for most of one year, and still end up on the same side of the bed.

Ten Years, Two CitiesAnniversary

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Indian acousticHinglish

Karwa Chauth ke liye. Woh subah chaar baje uth jaati hai aur mujhe uthne nahi deti. Chaand nikalne se pehle hi mujhe uska chehra dikh jaata hai.

Chaand Se PehleKarwa Chauth

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Indie popEnglish

My oldest friend turns thirty in a rented flat with one working burner. She has fed every person she has ever met out of that kitchen.

One Working BurnerBirthday

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