‘Gift plant, wear handmade organic Rakhi’

After Green Ganesha, there are attempts to green Raksha Bandhan now. The Bakul Foundation as part of its ‘My Tree Campaign’ came out with a call to ‘gift a plant on Raksha Bandhan and plant your Rakhi as well.”

They came out with a combo offer. Interested people can buy a packaged gift plant (which could be a tree growing plant like mango, jackfruit etc or a medicinal plant like Insulin, Tulsi, etc., or a flowering plant like Exora, Vinca etc.) in lovely white baskets along with a handmade organic Rakhi with seeds of amaranthus and bixa inside, which can be planted after the occasion.

These Rakhis were made with non-GM cotton grown by villagers in Chhindwara of MP, hand spun on charkhas by women in Wardha of Maharashtra, naturally dyed by artisans in Erode and then made into bands by women in the village of Paradsinge in Madhya Pradesh. One can uy these packaged gift plants along with the Rakhis with seeds for Rs 250. Sujit Mahapatra of Bakul was hopeful that with continued efforts, a cultural change could happen.