Fasting & Feasting. A Hindu Guide to Vrats Abroad (en Inglés) - Ananta Sivam

You grew up watching someone fast. A mother, a grandmother, an aunt who kept the Ekadashi without making a production of it. You understood, without being told, that certain days were different from other days.

Then you moved. And the practice that was held in place by everything around you suddenly required something it never used to require: you to do it consciously, alone, far from the calendar you grew up with.

Fasting and Feasting is the complete guide to Hindu vrat practice for those living outside India. Not a book of theology. Not a recipe collection. A practical manual for keeping the practice alive wherever you are.

The tradition figured out something that modern fasting research is now confirming: structured, timed interruption of eating, aligned with the lunar cycle, produces measurable effects in the body and the mind. The mechanism does not require proximity to India. It requires only that you observe the fast correctly, on the right day, with the right intention.

This book explains the mechanism and gives you everything you need to act on it. The calendar. The ingredients. The timing. The adaptations for diaspora life that no existing guide has brought together in one place.

Hindu diaspora readers in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere who want to maintain or rebuild a vrat practice. Those returning to the tradition after years away. Those who observed vrats growing up but lost the thread when they moved, and want to find it again.

The practice your family kept is still available to you. This book shows you how to keep it, wherever you are.