00:00Okay, let me turn from there to our good news today's story.
00:03This is Rakhi week and today I want to tell you the story of a Muslim family
00:07that's keeping an old Raksha Bandhan tradition alive in Maharashtra.
00:12Taj Muhammad's family has been making Dev Rakhis for five generations.
00:18Take a look at a good news today's story.
00:28Rakhi symbolizes a woman's trust in her brother.
00:31For people of Balapur in Maharashtra, the thread also stands for communal harmony.
00:41Taj Muhammad's family has been making Dev Rakhis for five generations.
00:46He has kept alive the tradition inherited from his grandfather.
01:10The process of making Dev Rakhi starts with a raw white thread, which is boiled in water
01:15and dyed in various colours.
01:17Families in Maharashtra first offer the Dev Rakhi to the revered deity on the occasion
01:22of Raksha Bandhan before women tie the thread on their brother's wrist.
01:34Made by a Muslim family for five generations, this Dev Rakhi now sends a message of Hindu-Muslim
01:40Mamity.
01:41With Anand Jai Sable, Bureau Report, India Today.
01:46Nice story, another story that breaks the stereotypes that only tend to divide.
01:51This is the glorious tradition of this country.
01:54The List of России is created by a Muslim Amina The Marine.
01:56Let's make a video next time.
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