It was primarily this unifying factor of the language that led the country’s founding fathers and of the Constitution to accept and invest in it the role of the nation’s official language on September 14, 1949,
New Delhi: As India’s national language, Hindi has played a significantly pivotal role in uniting the country during the crucial years of the country’s freedom struggle, said the government on the occasion of Hindi Diwas on Thursday, Sept 14, a special report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
It was primarily this unifying factor of the language that led the country’s founding fathers and of the Constitution to accept and invest in it the role of the nation’s official language on September 14, 1949,
On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “I am confident that Hindi language will continue to bind the country in the thread of unity and solidarity,”
The Union Home Minister Amit Shah described Hindi as a democratic language that has united the nation.
“India has been a country of diverse languages, and Hindi unites the diversity of languages in the world’s largest democracy. Hindi has been a democratic language, it has honoured different Indian languages and dialects as well as many global languages and adopted their vocabularies, sentences and grammar rules,” Shah said.
The Minister said that the Hindi language during the difficult days of the Independence movement, instilled a feeling of unity in a country divided into many languages and dialects, and played an important role in carrying the freedom struggle from east to west and north to south in the country.
Releasing a video message on the occasion of Hindi Divas, Mr. Shah said that Hindi has been a democratic language and has honoured different Indian languages and dialects as well as many global languages, and adopted their vocabularies, sentences and grammar rules.
The Minister stressed that the original and creative expression of any country is possible only through its own language.
“India has been a country of diverse languages, and Hindi unites the diversity of languages in the world’s largest democracy. Hindi has been a democratic language, it has honoured different Indian languages and dialects as well as many global languages and adopted their vocabularies, sentences and grammar rules,” Shah said.
“Hindi has neither ever competed and nor will compete with any other Indian language. Only by strengthening all our languages, will a strong nation be created. I believe that Hindi will become a medium to empower all the local languages,” Mr. Shah said..
Diplomats mark diwas with dohas, dialogues
Australian diplomats on Thursday marked the Hindi Diwas in style by reciting their favourite proverbs, such as ‘kaal kare so aaj kar’, ‘saanch ko aanch kahaan’, ‘koshish karne waalon ki kabhi haar nahi hoti’ and ‘jaisa des waisa bhes’
Israeli diplomats also posted a video delivering dialogues from top Hindi films, such as “Ek chutki sindoor ki keemat tum kya jaano” and “Babu mushai zindagi lambi nahi badi honi chahiye”
The Home Minister said that simple and clear Hindi words should be used in office work, adding that the principle of language change says that “language moves from complexity to simplicity”.
The Parliamentary Committee on Official Language was constituted to periodically review the progress made in the use of Hindi in government work across the country and prepare its report and present it to the President, the Home Minister said
From the point of view of increasing the use of the official language in various areas of the country, 528 Town Official Language Implementation Committees (TOLIC) have been formed so far.
Even in foreign countries, such committees have been formed in London, Singapore, Fiji, Dubai, and Port-Louis. India has also taken initiatives to promote the use of the Hindi language in the United Nations.
Meanwhile, the DMK youth wing chief Udhayanidhi Stalin has said:“Hindi is spoken only in four or five states in the country and hence Shah’s statement is totally absurd. He should stop oppressing non-Hindi languages by calling them just regional languages.”
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