FORMALITY OF CELEBRATING HINDI DAY ON 14TH SEPTEMBER
Bureau,Odishabarta
DELHI,14/09/29:Formality of celebrating Hindi-Day on 14th September this year was surprisingly not fulfilled this year by giving big newspaper-advertisements of too many public-sector companies. Hindi did become National Language on 26.01.1965 by which time constitution-makers had required English to be totally replaced by Hindi in government-use. But due to anti-Hindi agitations in South India, constitution was amended to continue English for ever in government-working. English news-bulletins on 26.01.1965 called All India Radio as Akashwani and Prime Minister as Pradhan Mantri and likewise. Since such frequent changes are not permitted in defence-services, armed forces happily continue with Hindi vocabulary in its use.
All public-sector companies should adopt Hindi names like Doordarshan which with practical use has become a familiar name. Even dual naming like All India Radio and Akashvani should be done away by retaining only Hindi names like Akashvani also because popular nouns are never translated. Likewise dual naming of Parliament Street and Sansad Marg in New Delhi should be changed by retaining only Sansad Marg as name of the important road. Even unpopular Hindi words can be effectively popularised if used by media and government, like for example Doordarshan.
Presently even some prominent Hindi newspapers like most widely circulated Hindi daily from Delhi are polluting Hindi by imposition of English words not only in Devnagri script but even in Roman script. Perhaps such may be the only example in the world where newspapers may be polluting their very own language of publication in name of commonly used words. At times such newspapers give place to even such English words which are not so common as compared to their Hindi equivalents. Unfortunately we have Bharat called India and Dehli spelled as Delhi while most other countries changed names and spellings of their names and of their capitals as per actual pronunciation in their native languages.
Even the then UN General Secretary Ban ki Moon appreciated Hindi at World Hindi Conference held at New York. The then US president George Bush had accepted Hindi to be amongst popular world-languages being considered to be taught in US in an effort to make his country stay ahead in the fast changing-world. All developed countries including China, Russia, France, Germany and Japan proudly use their own languages at all international levels without feeling shy of not communicating in English.
Input;Ms.Madhu
