Karwa Chauth wishes with name, in one paragraph
A Karwa Chauth wish with your name on it is an ordinary greeting card with one thing changed: it says who sent it. Type your name on this page and you get a card that opens with “Asha is wishing you Happy Karwa Chauth” instead of a forward from nobody in particular. It is free, takes about ten seconds, and there is nothing to sign up for.
What Karwa Chauth celebrates
Karwa Chauth is a day-long fast without food or water, kept by married women for their husbands' long life. It ends only when the moon appears — which is why the evening has a distinct edge of impatience to it. Wikipedia's overview of Karva Chauth has the fuller picture.
When Karwa Chauth falls
Karwa Chauth 2026 is on Thursday, 29 October.
The fourth day after the full moon of Kartik, in October or November.
Most Indian festivals follow a lunar calendar, so the date moves against the Gregorian one each year. For the official dates, the Government of India holiday calendar is the one to check.
How Karwa Chauth is celebrated
- Sargi eaten before dawn, sent by the mother-in-law
- A day without food or water, ending at moonrise
- The moon viewed through a sieve, then the husband's face through the same sieve
- Mehndi, red and gold clothes, and the evening puja with decorated karwa pots
Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and western Uttar Pradesh, and heavily amplified by Hindi cinema since the nineties. It falls about two weeks before Diwali, inside the same Kartik stretch as Chhath Puja.
What people say
Happy Karwa Chauth.
Putting your name on it
- Type your name in the box on this page. First name is enough — no email, no password, no account.
- Tap GO. Your card opens with your name at the top, on artwork drawn for Karwa Chauth specifically.
- Share it. One tap hands it to WhatsApp with the message already written — send it to a person, a group, or your Status. Whoever opens it lands on this same page with their own name box waiting, so it carries on down the family group without anyone installing anything.
Add your name to a Karwa Chauth wish
Straight answers
- What is sargi?
- The pre-dawn meal eaten before the fast begins, traditionally sent by the mother-in-law. It usually includes fruit, fenyan, dry fruit and sweets.
- Why is the moon seen through a sieve?
- The fast breaks on sighting the moon. Custom is to look at it through a sieve and then at the husband through the same sieve, before he offers the first sip of water.
- Do men keep the Karwa Chauth fast?
- Increasingly, yes — many husbands now keep it alongside their wives, though the traditional form is kept by the wife alone.
- Is Karwa Chauth also called Karaka Chaturthi?
- Yes — Karaka Chaturthi is the more formal Sanskrit name, karaka being the earthen pot used in the puja. Karwa Chauth (also spelled Karva Chauth) is the everyday name for the same fourth-day fast.
- How do I send a Karwa Chauth wish with my name on it?
- Type your name in the box on this page and tap GO. You get a card that opens with your name on it, and a button that hands the whole thing to WhatsApp. It is free, and there is nothing to sign up for.
- Is this Karwa Chauth greeting really free?
- Yes. No account, no watermark, no upgrade prompt and nothing to install. Your name travels inside the link rather than being stored anywhere.
- Can I add a photo to my Karwa Chauth wish?
- Not at the moment. This puts your name on original artwork drawn for Karwa Chauth rather than your photo on a template, so there is no upload step. If a photo frame is what you are after, one of the photo-frame sites will serve you better.
- Can I download my Karwa Chauth wish as an image?
- No, and that is deliberate. It is a live page rather than a picture file, so it always opens crisp — never a screenshot re-compressed for the tenth time — and you share it as a link instead of an attachment.
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