Hindi Diwas Speech
Respected
Chief Guest, Dear Staff Members and all the Visitors!
Thank you for joining the event and making it even more special for
all of us. We have gathered here to celebrate the 5th annual Hindi
Diwas at our publishing house. It’s an annual function celebrated
every year on 14th September. The day is celebrated with great
fervour and zeal in Hindi speaking states of India. Though the
celebration of Hindi Diwas is a government funded event in all
the Central Government of India firms, offices, schools and all
the institutions; but our office celebrates the occasion with
equal enthusiasm. It is basically celebrated to promote and
spread the culture of Hindi Language across the world. Its
significance is demonstrated by events, feasts, competitions
and different types of celebration held on this day. Hindi
Diwas is also celebrated as a loyal reminder for the Hindi-
speaking population of their unity and common
roots.
Our organisation gives much importance to the celebration o
f this day. Even though our publishing house publishes
newspapers and magazines in English language; but we give
utmost respect to our mother tongue Hindi as it is our national
language. Now, please allow me to share the background of
Hindi Diwas! On 14 September in 1949, the Constituent
Assembly of India had accepted Hindi as the official language
of India. This decision was sanctioned by the Constitution of
India and came into effect on 26 January 1950. As per the
Article 343, Indian Constitution, Hindi written in Devanagari
script was accepted as the official language. Now, there are
two languages which are officially used at the Union
Government of India level, i.e. Hindi and English.
You all must be aware about the competition that was running
since the past one month in our office. Every year, we do
something interesting and informative to celebrate Hindi
Diwas. Since we are a publishing house, the celebration more
often circulates around education. This year our theme was
‘Kabir Das ke Dohe’ ( Poems of Saint Kabir Das). The
participants were supposed to do research on the poems of
Kabir Das and present the same through plays, songs,
various Indian dance forms, etc basically in a creative and
innovative manner. We received applauding participation from
several colleagues in the celebration that was held last week.
We will be announcing the result of the competition today
itself.
I am very glad to learn that there are still many people who are
interested in preserving our Indian culture and traditions and
still holding on to the importance of Hindi language. I appeal
to everyone present here that to use the language in their
everyday lives as much as possible and make it more
widespread amongst the people.
Unfortunately, the significance of the language ‘Hindi’ is dying
down. People who speak Hindi are looked at with suspicion
by the so-called high class society. People feel ashamed in
the public places to converse in Hindi. However, I also see
several educated people interacting very confidently in Hindi. I
have come across several people who feel very connected
when they speak in Hindi.
Hindi is our national language and we should always feel
proud to use the language as
much as possible.
Thank
You!
Hindi is the first official language of India. The history of the
Hindi language is considered to be about a thousand years
old. The Hindi word is believed to be related to the Sanskrit
word Sindhu. 'Sindhu' used to call Sindh river and on that
basis, the land around it started to be called Sindhu. This
Sindhu word became ' Hindu', Hindi and then 'Hind' in Iranian.
Later, Iranians gradually became familiar with more parts of
India and the meaning of the word expanded and the word
Hind became the sign of the whole of India. Hindi shares its
roots with other Indo-Aryan languages such as Sanskrit, Urdu,
and Punjabi, as well as Indo Iranian and Indo-European to
communicate with over 1 billion people on this planet and
become immersed in a rich language and culture. Learning
the Hindi Alphabet Become familiar with Devanagari Script.
Devanagari is a compound of "deva" देव and "nāgarī" नागरी
. Deva means "heavenly or divine" and is also one of the terms
for a deity in Hinduism. It is a phrasing with lipi ("script") as
nāgarī lipi "script relating to a city", or "spoken in city". The
use of the name devanāgarī emerged from the older term
nāgarī. Devanagari is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
and is the main script used to write Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali.
Hindi is written in Devanagari script. It is also called Nagari.
Devanagari has 11 vowels and 33 consonants and is
anusvara, nasal and visarga and the script has no concept of
letter case. It is written from left to right, has a strong
preference for symmetrical rounded shapes within squared
outlines and is recognisable by a horizontal line that runs
along the top of
full letters that links them together.
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