Rakhi - Raksha Bandhan

Today was Rakhi. This is the festival where sisters tie an ornamental string on the right wrist of their brothers. As my sister is on the other side of the globe, and not known to practice Rakhi, the people in our house decided to step in. I got various strings around my wrist, as depicted.


You can see a close up of the first one I got. It has Hindi characters on it, and I can read it. It says "श्री", a title of honor - sort of like "sir", but a little more.

Hey look at that = sri -- sir. Never noticed that before.

And, they feed you sweets as part of the process.

It's a nice honor and an interesting thing to experience, again.