Surprise your Dad with Gifts to Cherish This Father's Day

Papa, Dad, Baba,Pa, Abbu, Bapu, Babboo, Tatah/Janak, Bapah, Baa.

Do these words ring a bell? What’s the connect?

Though different in pronunciation and spelling, they mean the same- father. The meaning remains unchanged, just like the everlasting bond that children all over the world have with their fathers.

Our fathers have forever been the men in invisible capes and strong shoulders.

Exams mein fail aur Mummy ki dant? Baba cushioned us by signing our notebooks.

Sunday and mummy ko bukhar? Baba would make a cocktail of half-burnt khichdi with his untrained junior staff!

Summer Holidays? Baba would hold a panchayat meeting with the entire family every evening till the location was finalised.

Bad break-ups? Baba would sit with us and explain to us the mandatory ifs and buts of life.

In short, Baba was our superhero, one who we would look up to through dark days and miseries, minus the capes and his magical powers.

As we grow up, most of us realize that his invisible presence through our childhood and adolescence shielded us like a huge garden umbrella during the rains.

Is there a need to make him feel special? We feel there is. He has been the man who had always gifted us love with nothing in return. We can already imagine his smile widening behind his moustache. He must be feeling glad; his dil humming, “Papa kehte hai bada naam karega. Beta humara aisa kaam karega.” Baba's kids are all grown up now, so much so that they plan to make him feel special, he thinks. “Magar yeh toh koi na jaane, ki meri manzil hai kaha” (lines taken from the song ‘Papa Kehte Hai’ in the movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak)

We suggest you gifting options that your father will cherish, below:

Coasters- There is pure joy in offering your Baba his cuppa of adrak-wali chai on rainy evenings. Fry some onion pakoras or yummy samosas and bingo! Watch him transform his thoughts about his mobile addicted, lazybum beta/beti to responsible ones. Do you know what will add to the entire proceedings like the perfect dhaniya chutney? A set of coasters. They will be the perfect bliss of colours beneath the teacups. Mummy will also have less mess to clean up because laminated coasters will be oh so easy to clean up. “Phir se mera kitchen ganda hua toh dekhna"-wali threats may no longer erupt from her. Yaha pe sab shanti shanti hain!

Lightweight coasters are supremely easy to carry, they will fit into your family bags at a picnic. With quirky quotes and colourful doodles, relatives will surely ask, “kaha sey khareeda?”

Notebooks- Bachpan mein, tell us if your Baba would just gift himself and not do things for his family? No, the situation was rather the opposite. You wanted the toy gun, you cried for it, Baba gifted you one on your birthday. You wanted that expensive cricket bat for your inter-school tournaments, your father secretly kept that on your bedside so that you wouldn’t miss your match.

We suggest you may gift him the joy of writing when he now has gotten free time from rearing his bacchas.’ Trust us, you might be digging out the ‘shayar' in him when you gift him a sturdy notebook this Father’s day. And we know he deserves all that adulation.

So, excited much? We would love to see our suggestions be fruitful because we believe that there is nothing warmer than a father’s smile.

At Desi Feriwala, we have a gamut of options in coasters and notebooks for every occasion.

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