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Hindi speaking gives me shivers, I speak it with hesitation: FM Sitharaman

Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said speaking Hindi gives her "shivers" and she speaks the language with hesitation. Speaking at an event organised by the Hindi Vivek Magazine, Sitharaman referred to a previous speaker's announcement that her speech will be in Hindi. "Addressing an audience in Hindi gives me shivers," a candid Sitharaman said, explaining the circumstances that have led to this condition. Sitharaman said she was born and attended college in Tamil Nadu which was in the midst of an agitation against Hindi and also witnessed violent protests against Hindi. Students opting for either Hindi or Sanskrit as the second language, even those who stood in merit lists, did not get scholarships given by the state government because of their choices of languages, the Union Cabinet minister claimed. Sitharaman said while it is difficult for a person to learn a new language after attaining adulthood, she could pick-up her husband's mother tongue Telugu but could not

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

Hindi language is not a competitor but a "friend" of all the other languages in the country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Wednesday as he denounced the "disinformation" campaign to pit Hindi against regional languages. He underlined the need to strengthen regional languages by keeping Hindi together. Addressing the All India Official Language Conference in Surat city, 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. "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 country," Shah said. He said regional languages in the country will prosper only when Hindi prospers, and vice versa. "Everybody should acce

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

Twitter to bring Edit Tweet feature finally: Here's all you need to know

Twitter will be paying close attention to how the feature can impact the way people read, write, and engage with tweets

MPSC state service prelims exam 2022 admit card released: Check details

In order to qualify MPSC state service prelims exam, the candidates are required to score a minimum of 33% marks

Hindi, Hindu sans Hindutva

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

UNGA adopts resolution on multilingualism, mentions Hindi for first time

In a significant initiative, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted an India-sponsored resolution on multilingualism that mentions the Hindi language for the first time

Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand 1st Hindi novel to win International Booker

Tomb of Sand', originally Ret Samadhi', is set in northern India and follows an 80-year-old woman in a tale the Booker judges dubbed a "joyous cacophony" and an "irresistible novel".

PM Modi picks Tamil pitch, CM Stalin targets Centre over 'true federalism'

TN CM said the Centre should increase funds and projects for the state and sought exemption to Tamil Nadu from NEET

Former Meghalaya CM slams Centre's decision to make Hindi compulsory in NE

Former Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma condemned the Centre's decision to make Hindi a compulsory subject till Class 10 in the north-east region

Communication breakdown

The Hindi-primacy debate has lost its relevance

DMK hits out at the central govt over Hindi 'imposition'

Ruling party's mouthpiece 'Murasoli' in its edition today carried a well-known slogan of Karunanidhi against foisting Hindi on people and captioned the write-up as 'Warning to the Union government"

Scindia objects to Tharoor's remarks over replies in Hindi in Lok Sabha

Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday took issue with Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's remarks on giving replies in Hindi in Lok Sabha. While responding to supplementary questions asked by members from Tamil Nadu in English, Scindia replied in Hindi. Soon after, Tharoor, who is a member from Kerala, commented that it was an "apman (insult)" that the minister was responding in Hindi. The minister speaks English and let him reply in English, Tharoor said. "Zara jawab Hindi mein mat dijiye... ye apman hai logon ka (Please don't give replies in Hindi... it is an insult to people)," Tharoor said during Question Hour. A visibly peeved Scindia said it was strange for the member to make such a comment. "Mein Hindi bole to eithraaz ho raha hai (If I speak in Hindi, (the member) has objection," he said, adding that there was also a translator in the House. Immediately after Tharoor made the remarks, Speaker Om Birla said, "Ye apman nahi hain (this is not an insult).

Hindi plays key role in spreading India's knowledge, culture: PM Modi

The Ministry of External Affairs celebrated the programme on World Hindi Day virtually

LinkedIn to be available in Hindi, seeks to expand reach in India

LinkedIn on Thursday marked a new milestone with the launch of Hindi, the first Indian regional language on the professional network.

Hindi is friend of all Indian languages, says HM Amit Shah

The home minister said a sense of inferiority complex was instilled in the minds of some children who couldn't speak English

Hindi an unbreakable part of Indian culture: Amit Shah on Hindi Diwas

Amit Shah extended his wishes on the occasion of "Hindi Diwas" calling the language as an "unbreakable part of Indian culture"

Microsoft adds English (India), Hindi to speech service Neural TTS

Microsoft India on Tuesday announced the addition of English (India) and Hindi to its Neural Text to Speech (Neural TTS) service language set

Here's why Oxford University Press named 'Samvidhaan' as Hindi word of 2019

The Oxford Hindi Word of the Year is a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of attention and reflects the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the past year.

Build real-time speech translation to reduce language barriers: Govt to cos

Citing a study, Sawhney said that 0.055 per cent of websites were found with content in Hindi and next Indian language which comes closer in Bengali.