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KANPUR: When life lets you down, sometimes a dog picks you up and tries to make things all right. The owner of Chutney, a canine in Merapur, a locality in UP’s Bhilawa town, threw a puppy party for the over 400 people who live in the area to celebrate the birth of nine fur balls.
Rajkali, who hosted the feast to mark the sixth day of the birth of the nine tykes, celebrated as “chhathi” for human babies in many Indian families, is doing her best to return the love given when she needed it most.The 38-year-old lives with her four-year-old daughter. “Widowed twice over a decade, I had suffered a lot emotionally. But then Chutney came into my life, and she gave me the strength to persevere,” she said.
Rajkali spent over Rs 1 lakh on the celebration. Villagers were served vegetarian delicacies; added fare was a folk-song-and-dance programme by professional artists.
The lane leading to Rajkali’s house was bedecked with colourful buntings and decorative lights on both sides. All the traditional “chhathi” rituals were followed as village women gathered at Rajkali’s house to sing sohars (folk songs recited on childbirth) and a coat of alta (traditional red dye) was applied to the paws of Chutney and her puppies.
Nothing travels faster than news of a party, food and song and dance. People from nearby villages were soon dropping in to click selfies with the dog and its puppies. “Chutney has proved very lucky for us in terms of both health and wealth,” Rajkali said.
Rajkali, who hosted the feast to mark the sixth day of the birth of the nine tykes, celebrated as “chhathi” for human babies in many Indian families, is doing her best to return the love given when she needed it most.The 38-year-old lives with her four-year-old daughter. “Widowed twice over a decade, I had suffered a lot emotionally. But then Chutney came into my life, and she gave me the strength to persevere,” she said.
Rajkali spent over Rs 1 lakh on the celebration. Villagers were served vegetarian delicacies; added fare was a folk-song-and-dance programme by professional artists.
The lane leading to Rajkali’s house was bedecked with colourful buntings and decorative lights on both sides. All the traditional “chhathi” rituals were followed as village women gathered at Rajkali’s house to sing sohars (folk songs recited on childbirth) and a coat of alta (traditional red dye) was applied to the paws of Chutney and her puppies.
Nothing travels faster than news of a party, food and song and dance. People from nearby villages were soon dropping in to click selfies with the dog and its puppies. “Chutney has proved very lucky for us in terms of both health and wealth,” Rajkali said.
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