What is Rakhi, festival when a girl tie Rakhi to her brother and brother take the oath to protect his sister from every problem. Rakhi is a festival where importance of brother is prominent.
Today when people saw Rakhi on my hand and the other day when I received courier, which was supposed to be my gift on Rakhi they gave me a strange look and asked to clarify if I have a brother because most of them knew I do not have one. It is me and only my elder sister. The whole lot of comments and perplexed perceptions of people made me think about this ritual of tying Rakhi for a while.
I realized, I am just so proud to have a sister who takes care of every problem in my life. Same goes with me tooJ. When we are together we do not need any one in fact when she got married the rituals which a brother should be doing. I did all the proceedings, that time also people retaliated but my parents pushed them in corner very gracefully.
What is this issue of having brother and not having brother?
Is it so important to abide by all the rituals without any logic behind them?
I respect every Hindu festival and when we search in mythology. We’ll get answers of every question we have in mind. Rakhi is known as Raksha Bandhan where in you are bonded to protect the other person. It can be anybody Brother, Sister, Mother and Father. Do we all not tie Rakhi to God in the morning and pray that he should have his kind hand on us always? Can we explain anyhow that god is our brother or for that matter can we at all explain relationship with him? Similar logic applies here also Rakhi is to be tied to someone you love, to someone you want to be out of every problem, to someone you care.
I believe time will change and it has to come from people who are doctors, engineers, MBAs ….in short, I meant literate peopleJ. We all need to embrace the world in a new way, world where people want to make difference, world with no biases, and world with no apprehensions towards sisters, mothers and daughters.
Cheers!!!!
Destiny is integral part of mine
