Historically it is evidant that, Indian culture always teaches to its young generation about "Maatru Devobhava", "Pitru Devobhava", "Aachaarya Devobhava" and "Athidhi Devobhava". Among the above "Pitru Devobhava" means father also is a respectable person for all, which we should follow on 365 days, not merely once in a year on the so called irrelevant "Fathers day".
Re: fathers day
by V SR on Jun 16, 2010 09:41 PM
Well, India too is changing with times and also cultural corruption. We ape west, very much at speed. In western world children leave their home at the age of 15 or 16 and they are gone. From the age 15 to 22, they have support of funding from parents for education and later they are off on their own. They visit their parents once in a while. The bonding is gone forever.
And so this mother's day, father's day and all. In India, it used to joint family system and then changed to single family system. Even in the later, parents used to live with children. Sometimes, it is surprising for Americans to hear that we live with out parents. In America, the parents are on their own and when they are old, they go to old age home or community homes. That is how the life.
Of late, the Indians who are settled is America are more or less same. Their parents are left alone in India and they call their parents once in a while and visit them possibly once in two years. They dont visit with their full family and they come alone to meet their parents. Changing times, changing cultures and hence these new systems of father's day... Well, does India need this? Time will certainly tell that India will be more or less similar to western world. In fact, we in India have been changing our ideologies ever since the invasion of Gajini and later years with the invasion of British, French and Portugese.
Re: Re: fathers day
by Rajendra Aggarwala on Jun 16, 2010 10:44 PM
No wonder Indians themselves have enslaved their nation to outsiders. We are slipping back again after all the sacrifices made by a gwneration or two to regain our independence. The new generations should learn from history, but even that history is being perverted by the modern slaves of India. God save India
Re: Is Father's Day relevant in India?
by Ferdinand Cangan on Jun 16, 2010 07:43 AM
Why to bring Mr. Gandhi to this scenario. He is nothing compared to your father...
The role of a father cannot be ignored as like mother, even after a grown up child father is some times more important than mother. Hence it is relevant to celebrate Fathers' Day without a holiday.
I think better ask nithyananda swami helper mr pramod mutalik (care taker of Ranjit(she committed to serve both)), may give better classical and traditional answer.
I think it has become a style to criticise the number of holidays in India in the name of festivals. Infact the employees in the west end up enjoying more non-working days. But they are in the name of Vacation. Their standard of living help in enjoying the vacation. But it is not so in India. so, stop crying about it.
in the USA these days are called Hallmark holidays - named after the greeting card company, which started out these false cultural days to boost their wares. we see the same happening in india. thanks to the cell phones we thankfully dont spend too much on greeting cards and these fancy hallmark holidays!
It is very essential. Because if we dont celebrate such dayS we will be considered backwards. The media specially elctronic, will lose a chance to waste our time with highly irrelevent BAKWAS. The so called elite class which find more foreign connection than the Indian, for them these days are essential to prove their loyalty to the waste west. And then middleclass is there to follow them.
