Raksha Bandhan is traditionally associated with a brother and sister tying a rakhi, exchanging gifts, and promising to stand by one another. But family relationships have never fit neatly into one definition. Today, siblings can mean sisters who grew up together, cousins who feel like siblings, brothers and sisters separated by distance, childhood friends who […]

Here’s something nobody talks about enough. Raksha Bandhan has always been boxed into the “sister ties rakhi on brother’s wrist” format. That’s beautiful. But it’s not the full picture. What about sisters celebrating with each other? What about bhabhis? Cousins you grew up with who are basically siblings? Friends who feel closer than blood relatives? […]