00:00Raksha Bandhan is coming in a few days. Why is this particular brother-sister relationship so important that a festival
00:06is celebrated across India, even beyond Hindu community?
00:09Special protection is needed only for someone who is weak. And if a protection day, Raksha day has been needed
00:22for sisters, for women, that simply tells us that we have had a big section of the society not empowered
00:33enough and therefore in need of protection.
00:36The question is about making it more contemporary and more relevant and more useful. Today, I do not think a
00:47great bulk of Indian women require a great deal of protection.
00:51Women, well at least most of them, are not so poorly placed that today they require to go to their
01:01three-year-old younger brother and tie the Rakhi thread in the hope that the brother will one day offer
01:12them protection and sanctuary and such things.
01:15Happens, doesn't it? And happens more frequently than we can imagine.
