Why should Indians celebrate Father's Day, an American festival, you may ask - if not for making card companies richer!
True, Father's Day is not something our parents relate to. For, they did not grow up with it. But, what is the harm is letting your father know that you love him or that you appreciate what he has done for you? That, certainly is an universal idea.
Most of us mark our birthdays by cutting a cake, observe festivals like Holi or Diwali by sending greeting cards. So, adding Father's Day to this list will surely do no harm - the question is, how innovatively you convey the message.
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Why Father's Day
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It began in the US about 100 years ago when a woman called Sonara Louise Smart Dodd felt that there should be a special day to honour her remarkable father as there was one to honour mothers.
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Special Animal Dads
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Most insects, fish, amphibians and reptiles are often reared by their mothers. But there are some animal fathers who are great dads too.
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Till Divorce do us Part
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A bird called Kentish plover has a remarkable social life. It is known to separate from its partner immediately after the eggs have hatched. This is done to build more nests in the same season.
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Danglers for your Car
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A simple way to make a beautiful dangler for your car.
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Jokes
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Share this joke with your dad. You will both roll!
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Happy Father's Day
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Tell this witty limerick to your dad.
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E-Cards
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Pitara for kids greeting cards for all occasions.
Click on section heads to see the cards.
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
-Sigmund Freud
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
-George Herbert
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
-William Shakespeare
"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
-Gabriel García Márquez
"I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
-Margaret Thatcher
"Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa."
-Mozart as a boy
"To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however."
-Wilhelm Busch
"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."
-Frank A. Clark
"It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home, it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love."
-Margaret Truman
"My father was frightened of his father, I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."
King George V (1865-1936)
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