<Tr> <Th> 2018 date </Th> <Td> Sunday, 26 August </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Related to </Th> <Td> Bhai Duj, Bhai Tika, Sama Chakeva </Td> </Tr> <P> Raksha Bandhan, also Rakshabandhan, or simply Rakhi, is an annual rite performed in the Indian subcontinent, or by people originating from the Indian subcontinent, and centred around the tying of a thread, talisman, or amulet on the wrist as a form of ritual protection . The protection is offered principally by sisters to brothers, but also by priests to patrons, and sometimes by individuals to real or potential benefactors . Differing versions of the rite have been traditionally performed by Hindus in northern India, western India, Nepal, and former colonies of the British Empire to which Hindus had emigrated from India in the 19th - century, and have included, in addition, rites with names rendered as Saluno, Silono, and Rakri . The rituals associated with these rites, however, have spread beyond their traditional regions and have been transformed through technology and migration, the movies, social interaction, and promotion by politicized Hinduism, as well as by the nation state . </P> <P> Raksha Bandhan is observed on the last day of the Hindu lunar calendar month of Shraavana, which typically falls in August . On this day, sisters of all ages tie a talisman, or amulet, called the rakhi, around the wrists of their brothers, ritually protecting their brothers, receiving a gift from them in return, and traditionally investing the brothers with a share of the responsibility of their potential care . The expression "Raksha Bandhan," Sanskrit, literally, "the bond of protection, obligation, or care," is now principally applied to this ritual . It has also applied to a similar ritual in which a domestic priest ties amulets, charms, or threads on the wrists of his patrons and receives gifts of money . A ritual associated with Saluno includes the sisters placing shoots of barley behind the ears of their brothers . </P>

Hindi festival where sisters give bracelets to brothers