There were many other Raksha Bandhan stories that kept popping up on my wall but this particular article of DailyO, shared by India Today, one of India's leading media names, shared multiple times got me a little intrigued. After opening this article like any other curious reader (self confessed), I found that it has been written by some Sreemoyee Piu Kundu. What was even more crass was than the title was its url, which contained keywords like - raksha-bandhan-incest-relationships-brother-sister-having-sex-incest. (Mind you, I have not even read beyond the Facebook post, author name, title and the url along with the comments of several agitated readers below their Facebook post). All this definitely turned out to be a click-bait gimmick.
So I start going through the content, which turned out to be a collection of several instances of 'marriages between cousins' from the Indian society and as well as globally. The author also mentioned her 'mixed feelings' towards her cousin, who looked at her 'lustfully'. She also cited an example from Indian mythology on how Lord Brahma married his daughter Saraswati.