By Judy McGuire
Shakespeare wrote, “It is a wise father that knows his own child,” but come the third Sunday in June, it’s more important that the offspring — that’s you — know the dad.
Considered by some cynical souls to be nothing more than a Hallmark holiday, Father’s Day began in 1909 after a young lady named Sonora Smart Dodd heard a Mother’s Day sermon at church and was moved to honor her father in a similar way. It soon caught on, but took until 1956 for the day to be officially recognized by a joint resolution of Congress, and wasn’t until 1972 that President Nixon made it official.
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CHENNAI: Move over eco-tourism, tsunami tourism is here. The Tamil Nadu government is considering options to turn tsunami-affected villages into memorials of the disaster that killed thousands along the Indian coast on December 26, 2004.
The aim is to preserve the memories of pre-tsunami days and educate visitors about the devastating impact the disaster had on these places. Tsunami tourism will also prevent these places from being completely forgotten.
Areas like Mamallapuram, Poompuhar, Marina, MGR Thittu and Chinnavaykal, which bore the brunt of killer waves, are proposed to be developed - in association with the local administration - as places of tourist interest. “We will partly fund the projects,” said Tamil Nadu’s tourism secretary, Irai Anbu.
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