{"id":7683,"date":"2025-08-09T23:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2025-08-10T02:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:45:14","slug":"raksha-bandhan-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/raksha-bandhan-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Raksha Bandhan 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was Rakhi and I have a lot of sisters so end up with a ton of Rakhi\u2019s 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\u2019t 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

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 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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\nSurabhi with her treasure of chocolates<\/center><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\nThis year’s Rakhi’s<\/p>\n

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\nGroup pic of all of us who were there in person<\/center><\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n