So a lot of people, out of genuine curiosity, asked me “How are you guys celebrating Raksha Bandhan (I have 2 sons)? I am sure that the kids’ cousins must have sent Rakhis for them.” Most of time my answer is a simple “yes” and rarely do I bother with the real answer. 🙂 Simply because (a) It’s time-consuming to have to explain every time. (b) It doesn’t matter how each individual chooses to celebrate it. Raksha Bandhan, for me, has never been about a sister tying Rakhi to a brother and a brother promising to protect her from all the evils because honestly, it’s a good prime-time-story concept but it doesn’t work like that, all the time in real world. Of course, as kids we did exactly that because there isn’t too much freedom for kids in India to do things their way when it comes to couple-of-hundred year old, cast-in-concrete traditions. [Read on…]