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Father's Day


The popularity of Father's Day has skyrocketed in the last few years. Though the concept of celebrating this day is still new to the country but the concept has got a lot of mileage in the last few years. The time of observing Father's Day is third Sunday of June. This is a day dedicated to the father. The day plays a lot of significance as one gets to display his/her affection towards his/her father.

Celebration of Father's Day involves a number of practices. It may be gifting him with someone special or may be organizing a special party for him. Schools and cultural societies also take this opportunity to strengthen the bonding between child and the father. They organize a number of cultural programs which provides great platform to the students to pay their respect to their fathers.

Father's Day is all set to be celebrated on June 19, this year. Indianholiday.com offers online information about Father's Day.


Festivals in June 2012
Festival Name Festivals Day/Date
Hazarat Ali's Birthday 4 Jun, Monday
World Environment Day 5 Jun, Tuesday
Gayatri Jayanti 11 Jun, Monday
Shab E Miraj 17 Jun, Sunday
Father's Day 17 Jun, Sunday
World Sun/ Solar Day 21 Jun, Thursday
Jagannath Rath Yatra 21 Jun, Thursday
Sao Joao Feast of St John the Baptist 24 Jun, Sunday
Bankim Chandra's Birthday 27 Jun, Wednesday
Hemis Festival 29 - 30 Jun, Friday-Saturday
Devshayani Ekadashi 30 Jun, Saturday
Start of Chaturmaas period 30 Jun, Saturday
Shimla Summer Festival 1st Week of June
Sindhu Darshan Festival June
Mahesh Navmi June