One of the most popular festivals of the country is Rakshabandhan. It is celebrated with great enthusiasm and with much joy all over the nation. The festival is celebrated in honor of the special and beautiful relationship between brothers and sisters. On the day of the festival it is the custom of the sisters to tie a ritual thread known as rakhi around the wrists of their brothers. The rakhi is a symbolism of the lifetime bond between them. It is believed that the rakhi is so powerful and the ties it bounds are unbreakable. A man tied by a rakhi naturally assumes the role of a real brother for the woman who tied it and he must also protect her at all costs.
In the annals of Indian history we find that the Emperor Humayun rushed to the aid of Rani Karnawati after she sent a rakhi to him. The Indian king Porus protected Alexander the great in the battlefield after Alexander’s wife tied a rakhi on his wrists.
The custom of rakhi is considered to be of great importance in Indian traditions. Even when they can’t be there in person for the festival, people always send rakhi and gifts to their siblings through postal and courier services. Nowadays with the advent of internet gifts delivery business people can also buy gifts for rakhi online and send them to their siblings in distant places. Even the rakhi thread which was originally a simple home- woven thread can also be online found in its many modern formats. And sisters buy fancy Rakhi online which are available in many different designs.
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