RAKSHA BANDHAN

            RAKSHA BANDHAN              Raksha Bandhan, also Rakshabandhan,or simply Rakhi,is an annual festival centred around the tying of a thread, bracelet or talisman on the wrist as a form of bond and ritual protection. The festive Hindu and Jainritual is one principally between brothers and sisters, observed both before and after she gets married thereby marking her continued relationship with her natal home and brothers.The rite is also found between priests and patrons, and sometimes by individuals to real or potential benefactors. Differing versions of the rite have been traditionally performed in northern India,western India, Nepaland some Hindu, Jai and Sikh emigrants from the India subcontinent since the 19th-century. It is alternately referred to as Saluno,silono,and Rakri.The rituals associated with these rites, however, have spread beyond their traditional regions to much of India and have been transformed through technology and migration, the movies,social interaction, and promotion by politicized Hinduism,as well as as a occasion of national solidarity and state tradition.