In 2014, at the age of 19, Natasha Jain began fasting during Ramadan. She felt bad about eating around her Muslim best friend at university, even though she was raised Hindu. They spent every day together.
She lived in Delhi then and didn’t give it her all. Before they met, she would have breakfast, but she wouldn’t eat or drink anything else until the sun went down. After that, she began dating a Muslim man, with whom she eventually got married and had a child.
I reasoned that I might as well do it right,” she says to The National. “I fast because I feel good about it, even though it doesn’t qualify as fasting in a religious sense because I don’t pray.”
Except for 2024, she has been doing it annually since they relocated to the United Arab Emirates. The first day of Eid Al Fitr marked the birth of their baby, with whom she was significantly pregnant. “I’ll continue to do it for the rest of my life. I thought I was missing out on something last year.
Jain, however, no longer has the same beliefs about why she started fasting. When her coworkers began to feel bad about dining with her, she realized that neither her spouse nor her friends had ever been affected. “When I reached the opposite end of the spectrum, I realized that if you’re putting your heart and soul into something, it doesn’t matter who you’re with or what they’re doing,” she adds.
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