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  • Father’s Day 2024 Significance: Date, History, And Significance | Culture News

    The third Sunday in June is designated as Father’s Day each year. Father’s Day 2024 is June 16, 2024, this year. The purpose of the day is to honor and celebrate our father. While many other nations observe Father’s Day in June, India observes the holiday in a different month on a different day. It is often forgotten what our father has sacrificed. The day is the ideal chance for us to show our Father how much we appreciate and adore him, as well as to give him thanks for everything. Around the world, people commemorate this unique day with great delight and fervor.

    Date

    As we celebrate Father’s Day on June 16, let us know the history and significance associated with this day.

    History

    Father’s Day was originally observed in the United States in the wake of a mining accident at Fairmont, West Virginia, that claimed hundreds of lives. The identification of this day is also attributed to a woman from Spokane, Washington named Sonora Smart Dodd. Sonora wished to pay tribute to her father, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War soldier who raised his six children by himself following the tragic death of his wife.

    Sonora’s efforts resulted in the first Father’s Day being observed in Spokane on June 19, 1910. The United States of America formally recognized Father’s Day as a national holiday in 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed an executive order.

    Significance

    This day is very important because it carries on the custom of honoring fathers in our lives and the countless sacrifices they have made. Additionally, it gives us a chance to thank them for imparting valuable life lessons and ideals to us. Here are a few justifications for the celebration of this day.

  • Ayodhya gears up for historic Ram Mandir consecration

    The Ram idol will be consecrated on Monday (today), marking the beginning of the opening of the temple in Ayodhya at the birth site of the deity in a watershed moment for the Ram-janmbhoomi movement, Indian politics and history.

    A day before the event, Ayodhya was marked with festive anticipation and revelry by devotees, with men in fatigues from the state police force, CRPF and Rapid Action Force spread across the town in varying intensities. Lata Chowk and the road leading to the Hanumangari temple witnessed the thickest crowds of devotees. The road leading to the Ram temple was cordoned off.

    Ayodhya Ram Mandir Inauguration: Catch all the live action hereOn January 22, outsiders will not be allowed inside the town, unless they are attendees or have valid permissions.

    At the temple, marking the sixth day of pre-rituals, the idol of Ram Lalla was bathed in water from 114 kalash (urns).

    The idol was bathed with medicated water and water brought from various pilgrimage sites from India. The consecration on Monday will be carried out by PM Narendra Modi.

    The muhurat for the ritual on Monday is between 12:29:8 pm to 12:30:32 pm, leaving 84 seconds for the consecration. From about 10 am in the morning for over two hours until the muhurat, a ‘Mangal Dhwani’ (Divine Melody) will be played in the temple courtyard. “In our Indian tradition, on any auspicious festival, a ritual of mangal dhwani or playing traditional music before God has been laid down. In this context, the consecration of Lord Ram is a once-in-a-century moment of pride for every Indian and we will be playing instruments from all regions and states of the country,” Champat Rai, general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra said.

  • Yogi Adityanath ‘changed’ caste of King Mihir Bhoj for votes: Akhilesh Yadav 

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday accused the BJP of “changing” the caste of ninth-century ruler Mihir Bhoj and tampering with historical facts to secure the votes of a certain community.

    This comes days after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath unveiled a 15-foot statue of the ruler in Gautam Buddh Nagar’s Dadri, stoking a controversy that saw sections of Gurjar and Rajput communities stake claim over the king’s legacy.

    “It is taught in history that King Mihir Bhoj was a Gurjar-Pratihar. But the BJP people have changed his caste,” Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi.

    “This is condemnable. The BJP is deliberately trying to tamper with historical facts and divide society to secure the votes of a particular side,” he said.

    The SP chief added that his party stood for respect and honour for all sections of the society.

    After unveiling the statue on September 22, Adityanath had said, “No foreign ruler was able to intrude India during the rule of King Mihir Bhoj.

    They were so frightened of him that nobody dared to attack India even 150 years after his rule until Mehmud Ghaznavi invaded and plundered the country.”

    “A community that forgets its past and traditions is unable to protect its geography also, and something like this has happened with us as well,” he said then.

    Soon after, a controversy erupted between sections of Gurjar and Rajput communities in Dadri over the king’s legacy.

    Later, a video surfaced purportedly showing a local community leader tampering with the foundation stone plaque of the statue and changing the prefix in the king’s name.

    Noting the rift between the two communities, Adityanath advised them against confining great icons within the boundaries of caste, saying their sacrifices were for the whole of India to cherish.

    “Maa Panna Dai had taken Maharana to a safe place by sacrificing the life of her son. Not just the Gurjar community, but entire India should feel proud of her great sacrifice,” he tweeted.

  • Sumitranandan Pant’s birth anniversary today, know what is his history

    Sumitranandan Pant is one of the four pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. Sumitranandan Pant emerged as the originator of the new era in modern Hindi literature. Sumitranandan Pant is counted among such litterateurs, whose portrayal of nature was one of the finest among contemporary poets. Regarding the rich personality of Sumitranandan Pant, litterateur Rajendra Yadav says that ‘Pant used to write nature-centric literature while living in costumes like romantic poets of English’. He lost his mother within just six hours of birth. Pant used to get influenced by people very soon. Pant, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Karl Marx, wrote compositions on them.

    Called William Wordsworth of Hindi literature, the poet named Amitabh Bachchan as ‘Amitabh’. Pant, who has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, Jnanpith Award and Sahitya Akademi Awards, was involved in the confrontation between the reality of society as well as the power of human beings, along with the reality of society. Good days of his life were spent with Harivansh Rai ‘Bachchan’ and Aurobindo. An entire era of modern Hindi poetry has survived in his creation more than half a century ago. Pant was born on 20 May 1900 in Kausani, Uttarakhand. Just six hours after birth, the mother was snatched away by cruel death. The child was brought up by his grandmother. The baby was named Gusain Dutt. Sukumar Kavi Pant of Hindi, who was conferred with the Jnanpith Award, got his initial education in a school in Kausani village, then moved to Varanasi and attended ‘Jayanarayana High School’, after which he joined ‘Myor Central College’ in Allahabad, but did intermediate He joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921 before appearing for the examination.