“Hindi, the 4th most used language of the world, is the language spoken as the mother tongue by around 258 million people.”
In India, the Hindi language traces back to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. When India was declared an independent country, the Government of India set a goal to standardize the Hindi language. With the use of Devanagari script, uniformity was brought into the writing of Hindi. On 14 September 1949, the Consultant Assembly approved Hindi written in Devanagari Script as an official language of Republic Of India. Fom that day onwards, to remember this historic occasion, we celebrate 14th of September as “Hindi Diwas” across the country.
Rapid technological development and economic growth, however, has caused the Hindi language to lose much of its importance. With the increasing demand for spoken English, everyone wants to learn and speak English for the advancement of their careers. But we should not neglect our official language because the languages and culture of a country play an important role in its economic advancement.
Hindi is a unifying factor across many states in our country and a great medium of knowledge and information exchange. It is also spoken and well understood by the people of several other countries including Mauritius, Trinidad, Tobago, etc. Moreover, Hindi is also one of the seven languages of India that can be used to make URLs.
Hindi Diwas gives an opportunity to honor the Hindi language, a beacon of our ancient culture. It is our chance to preserve and pass on a piece of our civilization’s history. The day is a chance, not just to celebrate Hindi, but to engage in the larger debates surrounding all of LANGUAGE, its use, significance and importance to human life.
