{"id":6885,"date":"2024-08-19T23:32:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2024-08-20T21:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:17:17","slug":"raksha-bandhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/raksha-bandhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Raksha Bandhan over the years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Rakhi and as folks know I have a lot of sisters so end up with a ton of Rakhi’s being tied on my hand. For those who don’t know, Rakhi or Raksha Bandhan<\/a> as it is formally called 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. <\/p>\n

It is an annual event and so I felt like sharing some Rakhi pics from over the years. I don’t have the pics from 1986-1994 and a few other years as they are not yet digitized:<\/p>\n


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\n1985, Surabhi tying the Rakhi on her own for the first time<\/p>\n

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\n1994<\/p>\n

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\n1998<\/p>\n

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\n2003<\/p>\n

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\n2004<\/p>\n

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\n2005<\/p>\n

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\n2006<\/p>\n

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\n2007<\/p>\n

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\n2008<\/p>\n

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\n2009<\/p>\n

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\n2012<\/p>\n

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\n2013<\/p>\n

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\n2014<\/p>\n

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\n2015<\/p>\n

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\n2016<\/p>\n

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\n2017<\/p>\n

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\n2019<\/p>\n

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\n2022<\/p>\n

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\n2023<\/p>\n

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\n2024<\/p>\n

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\n2024 <\/center><\/p>\n

I am blessed to have so many sisters and loving family to support me in life. <\/p>\n

– Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Rakhi and as folks know I have a lot of sisters so end up with a ton of Rakhi’s being tied on my hand. For those who don’t know, Rakhi or Raksha Bandhan as it is formally called is a Hindu festival where sisters tie a talisman or amulet called the rakhi around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6913,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions\/6913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}