Sisters pray for brothers’ long life on ‘Bhaiya Dooj’

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, November 13

The festival of ‘Bhaiya Dooj’ was celebrated in Dehradun today.

Sisters put ritualistic ‘tika’ on their brothers’ foreheads and prayed for their long life and well being. The festival is celebrated by all communities settled in Dehradun, whether they are from Garhwal, Bihar, Bengal or any other part of the country.

However, it is celebrated in different ways by different communities.

While hill people celebrate the day by sisters applying ‘tika’ on their brothers’ forehead, the Bengali community, which calls the festival ‘Bhaipota’, celebrates it by cooking fish curry and conducting the ritualistic ‘tika’ ceremony.

In the Bihari community, sisters tie a kind of rakhi on the brothers’ wrist. The rakhi is made of cotton and is coloured yellow with turmeric. All banks and state government offices remained closed on the occasion.