Ravia untangles Raksha Bandan from its neat origin stories and follow how a simple thread becomes myth, empire policy, protest symbol, pop culture script, and big business. We also sit with the tension between love and patriarchy, from “protection” as a promise to rakhi as friend-zone code and a tradition younger people keep rewriting. • Raksha Bhandan basics, meaning of raksha and bandhan, and how the tradition look now • Competing origin myths and why they contradict each other&...