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The festival of rakhi celebrates the love that is shared between a brother and a sister. Celebrating this day the sisters tie rakhi threads on their brother's wrist and in turn brothers take an oath to protect them against any evil. Apart from the usual rakhis made up of silk cloth or thick thread, now days one can even find silver rakhis and gold rakhis.
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Special rakhis are made for small kids by adornment of various cartoon characters on it.
In India, Rakhi is celebrated with lots of excitement. Besides tying rakhi threads on the brother's hand, exchanging gifts , eating mouth-watering sweets, lots of other elements are also present. These celebrations make the Rakhi festival all the more interesting.
Here are some other ways in which people celebrate the festival of Rakhi:
Mehndi
Girls are always fond of putting mehndi on their palms and on the occasion of rakhi; they decorate their palms with different styles of Mehndi. Thus Mehndi has become an important part of rakhi festival.
Rakhi Cards
In these times, when a large number of brothers and sisters remain away from each other due to educational, job or married life responsibilities, they send rakhi cards to each other. They express their feelings for each other with the help of these beautiful rakhi cards.
Markets
On the festive occasion of Rakhi, the markets are decorated brightly. Wide varieties of beautiful rakhis are available in the market. These are made up of resham or zari threads and are decorated with different items like beads, semi-precious stones, jewellery, gold and silver etc.
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