Festival time - Raksha Bandhan (Rakhi)

@birjudanak (14320)
India
August 3, 2020 8:31am CST
Good Evening to all, Its a festival time in my country but we can't celebrate due to this pandemic and feeling such sad because my sister also felt sad as she can't able to send Rakhi to us. Its call Raksha bandhan and it related to brother and sister where sister visit brother home and tie rakhi on brother wrist with blessing of successful life where as brother give gift and blessing to protect her for lifetime. In our culture sister is like princess and we keep her like princess as cant see little bit pain of her. Actually this festival related to our Lord Krishna as Draupadi tie his clothes to Krishna while blood was coming out and that time krishna told her that you helped me like my sister and i tell you that i will protect you when you need. Once draupadi was in trouble where she need help and Lord Krishna did help her and saved her from biggest trouble. Its a long story but i kept short. This day mostly people eat sweet and thus though we not celebrate it as usual but we bought Kaju Katri which one of my friends relative made as home so its good and we enjoyed a lot. We talk our sister on phone and just sharing our talk as we can at least do it. we also made special food like Puran pori, kadhi, samosa in meal so its a great day overall. Image source google
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@just4him (308693)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Aug 20
I'm glad you found a way to enjoy the holiday.
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@just4him (308693)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Aug 20
@birjudanak You're welcome.
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@birjudanak (14320)
• India
4 Aug 20
Yes it is thank you.
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@DianneN (247216)
• United States
4 Aug 20
What a lovely festival. Wishing you a happy holiday despite the pandemic.
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@DianneN (247216)
• United States
11 Aug 20
@birjudanak Enjoy them all!
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@birjudanak (14320)
• India
4 Aug 20
Yes its wonderful and there are many festival we have so lots of holiday too.
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@SHOHANA (16094)
• Bangladesh
3 Aug 20
I respect this festival, girls pray for their brothers and brothers give gifts to sisters, I've seen this from indian TV serials and movies
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@birjudanak (14320)
• India
3 Aug 20
Thank you and yes its related to brothers and sisters bond which is so nice.
@thelme55 (76524)
• Germany
4 Aug 20
That sounds a wonderful festival. I hope you still enjoy it thought we have pandemic.
@birjudanak (14320)
• India
4 Aug 20
Yes we enjoyed via video call and made special food at home so we enjoyed it.
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@thelme55 (76524)
• Germany
4 Aug 20
@birjudanak That´s good.
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• India
3 Aug 20
Wish you a very happy Raksha Bandhan!! Thanks for enlightening us with the story of how this festival came about. Since I'm from the South, I didn't know about this background story and only knew that it celebrates the bond between a brother and sister. Even though it's not a traditional festival at my place, I have always tied rakhi and celebrated it with my cousin brother as I do not have a brother of my own. I have always loved a lot of things about the North and this is just one of those
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@birjudanak (14320)
• India
3 Aug 20
Yes there is true story behind it and sure you know mahabharat which is our history and there what happened with drupadi during gambling that vastraharan and lord krishna helped because once drapudi helped and gave promise her to protect.
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• India
3 Aug 20
@birjudanak Yes I do know that story but didn't know that it was the base of this festival.
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