World Hindi Day: Hindi Is Taught In More Than 200 Universities

World Hindi Day: Hindi is taught in more than 200 universities of the world, its rays are illuminating the global society.

Maithili Sharan Gupta said that Hindi is embellished with all the qualities on whose strength it can become a reflection in the next category of literary languages ​​of the world.

On World Hindi Day, celebrated on 10 January, Hindi has now moved out of the literary periphery and enter the wider region and establish itself as an international language.

The World Hindi Day was announced every year on 10 January 2006 by the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, with the aim of developing and promoting Hindi in the world.

Its objective is to create awareness and affection for the promotion of Hindi in the world, to create an atmosphere for Hindi and to present Hindi as an international language.

Ultimately, it has to be included in the official languages ​​of the United Nations.

Immigrants remain dominant in foreign countries

The growing role of Hindi in various countries of the world has played a major role for the immigrant Indians, who have an uneasiness to connect with their motherland, culture, ideas and socio-family values.

On the linguistic level, a language could be supplemented alone by Indian elements on foreign soil, then it has been Hindi, which was the largest in terms of geographical expansion as well as the number of speakers.

It is not uncommon that Indians who went abroad adopted the Hindi language and literature as a symbol of Indian culture and tried to promote it.

Many foreigners who came in contact with immigrant Indians were also greatly influenced by Indian culture – especially Indian life values ​​like Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, family affiliation, tolerance.

Hindi cinema also attracted them a lot.

Business and political causes have also formed a foundation in the last decades.

In order to join Indo-Indianness, many foreigners not only learned Hindi, but they also became ‘Ambassadors of Hindi’ in their respective countries.

Heart is associated with Hindi

Beginning with neighboring country China. Even after the communist revolution in 1962 and then present the Chinese rulers stabbed us in the back, but China also has a deep relationship with India.

In the 20th century, while only one university in China had a Hindi language course, today Hindi is being taught in 11 Chinese universities.

Sriramcharitmanas has been translated into Chinese by Professor Jin Ding Han of China. He has also prepared a Hindi-Chinese idiom dictionary for the promotion of Hindi in China.

While Chinese professor Wang Shu has worked on Indian culture and customs, another professor Chiang Ching Khwei has devoted his life to the promotion of Hindi in China.

He has special research on Surdas. He has been given the George Grierson Award by the Government of India for his special contribution to Hindi.

Chiang, the penetrating poet of Hindi poet Jaishankar Prasad’s poem ‘Tear’, also writes stories in Hindi.

Another professor, Yu Long Yu, for his distinguished contribution in the field of ‘India Studies’, former President of India, Late. Has been awarded by Pranab Mukherjee.

The popularity of Hindi in China has increased a lot, but these scholars also believe that Hindi could not spread properly in China due to the deteriorating relations between India and China.

Language knowledge with entertainment

Professor Takakusu is the foremost among those who ignite the flame of Hindi in Japan in Asian countries, whose efforts led to the teaching of Hindi in Japanese universities.

At the University of Tokyo And Ph.D. The facility is available. Professors Hideaki Ishida and Doshikumi Mizuno have helped students achieve proficiency by doing great work in translation work.

A professor named Setsu Suzuki believes that Indian folk tales have a deep imprint on Japanese folk tales.

Japanese-Hindi and Hindi-Japanese dictionaries have also been prepared at the University of Tokyo for the convenience of students.

Apart from this, a magazine called Indo Bunkaku (Indian Literature) also originates from here. The demand for Hindi films has increased in Japan over the years.

Also, the trend of learning the Hindi language among Japanese people is increasing.

Pro. Mizokami considers the listening-reading method useful for the Japanese to learn Hindi and teaches Hindi through the Mahabharata and Ramayana serials and films, considering them important.

Today Hindi language literature is popular all over Japan. Thousands of Japanese students study Hindi. Hindi-speaking or Hindi-loving people are present in 137 countries

Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, China, Japan, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, South Africa,.

Mauritius, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad Hindi is spoken in countries like Tobago, Russia, USA, Canada, UK, Germany, New Zealand etc.