Shravan Purnima — August, most years
A Rakhi page for a brother or sister who lives far away
Rakhi is the festival most likely to be celebrated over a video call. The thread goes in the post a week early, the call happens at an awkward hour, and the actual day passes in fifteen minutes. A page is the part that stays after the call ends.
Sibling affection has its own grammar and it is not romantic. There are no hearts anywhere on this template, in the art or the words. What it has instead is the teasing — the childhood evidence, the thing you were both blamed for, the account being settled at last.
What to write
Use these as they are, or as a running start. Every template also has a draft-it-for-me button if the words will not come.
For an older brother
You took the blame in 2009 and never once brought it up. I have not forgotten. Happy Rakhi, bhai. The thread is in the post and it is late, as usual.
For a younger sister
You were an unbelievable nuisance and you turned out extremely well, which I am choosing to take credit for. Happy Raksha Bandhan.
When you cannot be there
Third year of doing this over a video call. Same thread, same promise, worse network. Happy Rakhi — tie it yourself and send me the photo.
Works for: A brother · A sister · Cousins who grew up as siblings
Questions people actually ask
Is this only for brothers?
No. Set it for a brother or a sister and the words adjust. Plenty of people make these for a sister, for cousins raised as siblings, and in both directions.
Can I send it if the rakhi has not arrived yet?
That is one of the more common reasons people make one. The page arrives on the day even when the parcel does not, and the parcel gets its own moment later.