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Stalin asks Centre to celebrate Indian Languages Day instead of Hindi Diwas

Indian languages, including Tamil, should be made official languages of the Union government and Indian Languages Day should be celebrated rather than the Hindi Diwas, DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Wednesday. Quoting from Union Home Minister Amit Shah's address to the All India Official Language Conference in Gujarat, Stalin claimed that Shah batted for learning Hindi to understand culture and history. The nation comprises people who speak many languages and Shah's Hindi pitch went against the country's ideal of unity in diversity, Stalin alleged in a party statement. Hindi Diwas is observed by the Centre every year on September 14. India is known for its integrity and there must not be any efforts aimed at dividing the country in the name of "Hindia," Stalin said, an apparent hint to his party's historical line against "imposing Hindi". The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister demanded Shah that all the 22 Indian languages including Tamil, listed in the Eight

Hindi not competitor but friend of all regional languages: Amit Shah

Hindi language is not a competitor but a "friend" of all the other regional languages in the country and they are mutually dependent on each other for their growth, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Wednesday. He denounced the "disinformation" campaign to pit Hindi against native languages and underlined the need to strengthen local languages with Hindi. Addressing the All India Official Language Conference in Surat city on Hindi Day, Shah said that accepting the co-existence of languages was needed and stressed the need to make Hindi flexible by taking words from other languages to expand its dictionary. Shah observed that unless the Hindi language becomes flexible, it cannot grow. "I want to make one thing very clear. Some people are spreading disinformation that Hindi and Gujarati, Hindi and Tamil, Hindi and Marathi are competitors. Hindi cannot be a competitor to any other language in the country. You must understand that Hindi is the friend of all the languages of the

Hindi's simplicity and sensitivity always attract people, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that Hindi has brought India special honour globally and that its simplicity and sensitivity always attract people. In his tweet on Hindi Diwas, Modi expressed heartfelt thanks to all who have made tireless efforts to enrich and strengthen the country's largest spoken language. Hindi Diwas is observed every year on September 14.

Future of Hindi literature set to prosper: Booker winner Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi litterateur to receive the International Booker Prize, talks in an interview to Sandeep Kumar on many topics including the impact of this award

BHARAT: An Indian font that integrates elements from 12 languages

India's top typographers at Rediffusion Design Studios have been working hard for the past six months to create a font that would be intrinsically and eternally Indian

Hindi, Hindu sans Hindutva

A fascinating account shows how much of the maverick writer and polymath's thinking was rooted in cosmopolitanism

Sustained effort can bring Hindi literature in focus: Geetanjali Shree

More serious sustained and organised efforts, however, will be required to really bring Hindi literature centre-stage

US considers translating fed websites in Asian languages including Hindi

It also recommended that public and emergency alerts should be accessible to persons with limited English proficiency

Raut bats for 'one country, one language', says Hindi spoken across India

His statement comes over a month after Shah said that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages

India contributes $800,000 for public outreach of UN in Hindi language

R Ravindra handed over a cheque for the UN project launched by India in 2018 to disseminate information about the UN to the Hindi-speaking population across the world

Amid Hindi row, Chiranjeevi remembers 'humiliating' award ceremony in Delhi

Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi recalled a 'miserable and humiliating' incident when the South film fraternity was sidelined and only Hindi cinema was projected as Indian cinema.

Discussion needed with other CMs: Mamata on increased pitch for Hindi

Banerjee was replying to queries regarding Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent remarks over the importance of Hindi at an event in New Delhi

Ajay Devgn's Hindi comment centre of political debate: Bommai, Omar step in

What started off as a Twitter exchange between Devgn and Kannada actor Kichcha Sudeep on Wednesday took a political turn as Bommai joined his predecessors and political rivals

Communication breakdown

The Hindi-primacy debate has lost its relevance

69% spike over three years in candidates giving competitive tests in Hindi

In 2017, since govt allowed NEET for medical in regional languages, number of students choosing Hindi has grown faster than those opting for English; only Marathi and Odiya posted faster growth

No need to learn Hindi to prove we are Indians: Tamil Nadu BJP chief

BJP strongman and Home Minister Amit Shah has stated that Hindi could be an alternative to English and that Hindi could be the official language in the country

Move to make Hindi compulsory in NE will create disharmony: Students' body

The North East Students' Organisation, has taken umbrage over the Centre's decision to make Hindi a compulsory subject till Class 10 in the region

Congress pans Home Minister Amit Shah over his comments on Hindi

Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages

BJP's attempts to impose Hindi on other states will be resisted: TMC

Pointing out that Hindi was not India's national language, the TMC said his agenda of 'one nation, one language and one religion' will remain unfulfilled

Hindi isn't our national language, will never let it happen: Siddaramaiah

Asserting that Hindi is not India's national language, former Karnataka chief minister and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday accused the ruling BJP of trying to unleash its agenda of "cultural terrorism" against non-Hindi speaking states. Taking offence to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's comment regarding the official language, the Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka assembly accused him of betraying the former's home state Gujarat and mother-tongue Gujarati for Hindi, for his political agenda. Shah on Thursday said Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages. Presiding over the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee, Shah had said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided that the medium of running the government is the official language and this will definitely increase the importance of Hindi. "As a Kannadiga, I take strong offence to @HMOIndia @AmitShah's comment on Official language & medium of ...