What is International Friendship Day ?
What is International Friendship Day ?
A friendship day is a day dedicated to cherish and celebrate friendship day, like all the other day’s friendship day is globally celebrated, it’s majorly celebrated by school going kids, college students, and even adults today celebrate friendship day to extend and show love and affection to their best mates.
Why is Friendship day celebrated?
Friendship Day or International Friendship Day is widely celebrated to cherish friendship. The credit majorly goes to the industry dedicated to manufacturing greeting cards, gifts, decorative items and most importantly to social media for reviving the concept of friendship day. After the introduction of popular social media platforms like Orkut, Facebook and modern-day Instagram helped popularized the concept of Friendship Day day even further.
International Friendship Day is widely observed and celebrated in densely populated countries like India, Bangladesh and Malaysia.
How is International Friendship day celebrated?
Its origin dates back to 1935 in the United States as per experts however, history also suggests that it’s been around since 1919. Friendship Day or international friendship day is celebrated by swapping gift cards, gifts or flowers etc. The most popular way of celebrating this festival is by simply tieing a wristband on your friend’s wrist.
Some say that it was the year 1958 when the Internation Friendship Day was coined in Paraguay.
When is International friendship day celebrated?
International Friendship day is celebrated on varying dates in different countries. The World Friendship Crusade proposed the first World Friendship Day on July, 30th 1958. The General Assembly of the United Nations declared July,30th as the official day for celebrating International Friendship Day on April,27th 2011. However, in India, it is celebrated on the first Sunday in August. Hence Friendship day 2021 will be celebrated on Sunday, 1st August’2021 in India.
When is friendship day in 2021?
Friendship day in 2021 will be celebrated on the first Sunday in August i.e. August 01′ 2021 (01/08/2021) in India.
