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Raksha Bandhan translates to “a bond of protection” and perhaps nowhere else was this more evident than in the families present that rainy day.

We can clink glasses to cross-caste marriages, smile politely at cross-cultural couples…But if ‘conversion’ comes up, we fall nothing short of an obvious eye-widen and a suppressed gasp. “Did she really convert for him?”

What are the implications for children whose parents talk to them about a cancer diagnosis?