Today was Rakhi and I have a lot of sisters so end up with a ton of Rakhi’s being tied on my hand. Rakhi (Raksha Bandhan) is a Hindu festival where sisters tie a talisman or amulet called the rakhi around the wrists of their brothers who symbolically protect them and receive a gift in return. The sisters do a Tilak, tie the Rakhi and then give a piece of sweet. My sisters don’t know how to give just a piece of sweet so I usually have a full laddu/other sweets (usually quite large) stuffed in my mouth for every Rakhi being tied.
This year, Surabhi demanded “Get Dairy Milk Chocolates, a lot of them. No a ton of them for me” for Rakhi, then a few hours later I got a call from Sara (my niece) that she also wanted lots and lots of chocolates when she came over today. So being the nice brother & mama I am, I went to the local shop and bought every single Dairy milk chocolate they had and arranged it for Surabhi & Sara (See below). I got over 60 chocolates for the two of them 😉
Surabhi with her treasure of chocolates
I naively thought that they would take only some of the chocolates home and leave the rest at my place so that everytime they visit they can have a few. Instead they took the entire thing with them… Hopefully they won’t eat it all in one day.
This year’s Rakhi’s
Group pic of all of us who were there in person
I also wanted to do something different and created a shot video of my Rakhi celebrations from 1985 onwards (before that Surabhi was too young to tie the rakhi) to date.
40 years of Rakhi Celebrations (1985 to 2025)
– Suramya