The name 'Raksha Bandhan' suggests 'a bond of protection'. On this auspicious day, brothers make a promise to their sisters to protect them from all harms and troubles and the sisters pray to God to protect their brother from all evil. The festival falls on the Shravan Purnima which comes generally in the month of August. Sisters tie the silk thread called Rakhi on their brother's wrist and pray for their well being and brothers promise to take care of their sisters.
This festival enhances the bonding between the mankind by:
- Connecting them
- Socially
- Morally
- Intellectually
- Affectionately
- This thread is not just a thread it binds two persons in a relationship of a Brother n Sister.
It won’t be wrong to say the fashionable friendship band in vogue today is an extension of the Rakhi custom. A girl sends a guy the Rakhi and turns the relationship into a sisterly one. This is one way of saying, "let’s just be friends".
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