International Father’s Day: Father is the pillar of home and mother is its builder-Puri

Jaswant Singh Puri/ June 15, 2025

Father is the pillar of home and mother is its builder. Father’s Day reminds us of the powerful role in shaping individuals and families. It is generally celebrated on the third Sunday of June and in 2025, it falls on June 15th.

It had its origin in the United States and the first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910. It became a U.S. National Holiday in 1972 by the President Richard Nixon. It was founded by Sonora Smart Dodd in 1910. It is an occasion to honour fathers and celebrating the love, sacrifice and support of fathers to their siblings and family. The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910. People often express their love and gratitude for their fathers through gifts, such as cards, or other items.

The author, Jaswant Singh Puri, is all the time full of gratitude and appreciation for his father Dr. Ajit Singh Puri. Above all, Mahatma Gandhi is called the Father of the Nation, and this epithet was accorded by Subhash Chandra Bose in 1944. Jawaharlal Nehru’s letters to his daughter Indira Nehru in 1928 shows father’s concern and affection by the father. It is also an occasion to honour fatherly figures. Shakespeare once quoted. “It is a wise father that knows his own child”.