If someone wants to celebrate Teej in her own way, she has the right to do so. If the reason for it is to meet her parents, eat delicious food, get away from the hard daily chores for a day, then good for her. Celebrating Teej for the long life of a husband is also good for whoever wants to celebrate. But the latter reason from my point of view is very sexiest and should not be held as THE reason, or at all. If the women want to go to bars in villages and dance next to kholas, they have the right to do so, for the are not hurting anyone. And Crishna, it is good that you are fighting for women. But to imply "that's the way it is in nepali society, and should be the way" shows you are reluctant to change. Everyone is a part of society. If everyone waits for the society to change without changing his/her self, the society never changes. I remember an incident when one of the male family friends I knew declined to touch his son-in-laws feet during his daughter's (love marriage) wedding because he was Brahmin and his son-in-law a chhetri. When I asked him if he would allow his son to marry an untouchable, he said no. He said if someone else who is a brahmin in the society does it then he will allow his son. What I am trying to say is, we make a society, so why cannot we be the change?