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Hindi Neither Ever Competed Nor Will Do With Another Indian Language: Shah

By LokMarg 14th September 2023

On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday stressed the need to strengthen all Indian languages and dialects with the hope that Hindi will become a medium to empower all.

Expressing his views on the occasion of Hindi Diwas, the Minister said “Hindi neither ever has competed and nor will compete with any other Indian language”, and that “original and creative expression of any country is possible only through its own language which we have to carry with us as all Indian languages and dialects are our cultural heritage.”

Extending his best wishes to the countrymen on the occasion of Hindi Diwas, Shah mentioned that 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. It also played an unprecedented role in uniting the country during the difficult days of the independence movement. It instilled a feeling of unity in a country divided into many languages and dialects. Hindi, as a language of communication, played an important role in carrying forward the freedom struggle from East to West and North to South in the country,” stated the Home Minister.

Considering the important role of Hindi in the freedom movement and after independence, Shah said, the architects of the Constitution had accepted Hindi as the official language on September 14, 1949.

“Original and creative expression of any country is possible only through its own language,” said the Minister.

He emphasized that the progress of our language is the basis of all-round progress and that all our Indian languages and dialects are our cultural heritage, which we have to carry with us.

Shah added that “Hindi neither ever has competed and nor will compete with any other Indian language.

“Only by strengthening all our languages, a strong nation will be created,” he said.

The Home Minister expressed his belief that Hindi will become a medium to empower all the local languages.

The Home Minister said that the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language was constituted to periodically review the work done in the official language in the country. It was given the responsibility to 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.

Shah added that he was happy to inform that the 12th volume of this report has been presented to the President. Only 9 volumes of the report were submitted till 2014, but we have submitted 3 volumes in the last 4 years only. Since 2019, Hindi Advisory Committees have been formed in all 59 ministries and their meetings are also being organized regularly.

From the point of view of increasing the use of official language in various areas of the country, a total of 528 Town Official Language Implementation Committees (TOLIC) have been formed so far. Even in foreign countries, Town Official Language Implementation 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.

The Minister said that a new tradition of organizing the ‘All India Official Language Conference’ has also been started by the Department of Official Language.

The first All India Official Language Conference was organized in Banaras on November 13-14, 2021 and the second conference was organized in Surat on September 14, 2022. This year the third All India Official Language Conference is being organized in Pune.

He said that in order to develop the official language according to technology, the Department of Official Language has created a memory-based translation system ‘Kanthastha’. Taking a new initiative, the Department of Official Language has also created the dictionary ‘Hindi Shabd Sindhu’. This dictionary is being continuously enriched by including words from Indian languages included in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution. The department has also made an ‘e-Mahashabdkosh’ mobile app comprising a total of 90,000 words and an ‘e-Saral’ dictionary of about 9,000 sentences. (ANI)

Delhi Cabbie’s Conversation In Sanskrit With Passenger Wows Internet

By LokMarg 17th November 2022

Known as the land of various languages, in India, one would often hear conversations in Hindi and English besides regional languages. However, Sanskrit remains the least heard.

Also known as the ‘Languages of God,’ Sanskrit in these modern times seems to remain restricted to priests and holy scriptures.
A recent viral video of a cab driver and a passenger in Delhi surprised social media users. The key highlight of this video was the fluent Sanskrit language in which the two persons conversed with each other.

Taking to Twitter, a user named Lakshmi Narayan B.S shared the video which he captioned, “Amazing !! This car driver in Delhi speaks Sanskrit with me this morning!!.”

The video has been recorded near India Gate, New Delhi.

The video shows the passenger engaging in a Sanskrit chat with his cab driver. Interestingly, he responded in the same language. The passenger also questioned the driver about his hometown, to which he responded that his name is Ashok and he is from Gonda in Uttar Pradesh. The driver was also asked about his family members, and he answered all of them in fluent Sanskrit.

Soon after the video was shared, it went viral on social media and fans praised the cab driver’s fluency in speaking Sanskrit.

“So nice, hearing this dialogue, feel like learning Sankrant..thanks for sharing..,” a user commented.

Another user wrote, “Wow it’s pleasing the ear …”

“Beautiful!! So good to hear a proper Sanskrit conversation. Even normal chit-chat sounds like a puja!” wrote another fan.

The 29-second-long video has gathered over 2 lakh views on Twitter since it was shared. (ANI)

Not Let Any Indian Language Die: Shah

By LokMarg 31st October 2022

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday urged citizens in the country to “not let any single language of the country die”.

Shah’s remarks came while speaking on the occasion of India’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s 147th birth anniversary.
“We Indians need to decide that no matter how many languages there are in this country, we will not let a single one die,” Shah said while addressing at Sardar Patel School here in the national capital.

Clarifying that he is not against the learning of any language, Shah said, “I am not against learning any language. One can learn, English, German, Russian or French. There is no problem in it. But don’t leave your own language.”

Noting that “we, unfortunately, combine the knowledge of English with intellectual ability in our country”, Shah said, “Language is not indicative of ability. Ability is your own, and it is expressed by any language. Don’t have an inferiority complex about language. Come out of that.”

“If you have the ability then the world will have to listen to you whether you speak in your own or any other language.”

The Minister urged people not to leave their own language, appealed teachers to speak with children in their mother tongue, and asked the youth to protect and take forward their mother tongue.

“We will have to keep alive our mother tongue and carry forward it. The responsibility of breaking the barrier of inferiority complex of language is on youth,” the Union Home Minister said.

Shah said, “If we assume that only those people who know English well can contribute to the development of the country, we connect only five per cent of the country’s population with the development of the country.”

The Minister said, “if we do not involve a child who thinks, speaks, writes and does research and development in his own language, we deprive 95 per cent of the children of the country from the development of the country”.

Referring to suggestions that came in India’s new education policy, Shah said a maximum of them emphasised the need to keep primary education of the children in their own language.

“Technical and medical education also should be in the regional language. Besides, research and development should also be in regional language,” Shah said citing the suggestions received for the new education policy.

The Minister said if we want to make Mahatama Gandhi and Sardar Patel’s country of imagination we should come out of the inferiority complex of language and protect as well as promote our own language.

On Sardar Patel, Shah said, “For a long time, the country did not even do anything to remember the work of Sardar Patel”.

It took so many years for a person like Sardar Patel to get Bharat Ratna, mentioned the Minister on the event, adding, “It took so many years to build Sardar Patel memorial”.

But, Shah said, Sardar Patel is such a person who is immortal by his work.

He said Mahatma Gandhi had idealistic and spiritual leadership, on the other hand, Sardar Patel was a realistic and practical leader, and the combination of these two leaders has given a lot to the country.

Now, the Minister said India has achieved a place in the 75 years of its Independence that no one in the world will be able to dare to insult India’s border and Indian army. (ANI)