Page 4 - Hindi

Can we emote in English?

Our national conversation, meaning that which relates to the economy, security, constitutionalism and the law and so on, has been appropriated by English

How Hindi's growth will lead to decline in Tamil, Kannada speakers

By 2031 more than half of India's population will be Hindi speakers while share of all other language speakers will decline

Never asked for imposing Hindi over native languages, says Amit Shah

Amid a heated debate over his remark that Hindi should be a common language, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said he has never asked for imposition of Hindi over native languages in the country but advocated its use as the second language, following which DMK announced postponement of its September 20 protest. Referring to his speech on the occasion of Hindi Divas on Saturday where he made a pitch for a common language for India, the home minister said to end the confusion, people should listen to his speech carefully but "if someone wants to do politics, it is their choice." Clarifying his comments, he said, "a child can perform, a child's proper mental growth is possible only when the child studies in mother tongue. Mother tongue does not mean Hindi. It is the language of a particular state, like Gujarati in my state. But there should be one language in the country, if someone wants to learn another language, it should be Hindi." "I have just made the request. I have ..

The uniting power of Hindi

Indians display remarkable apathy to excesses by the state -except when at stake is their language

Letter to BS: The best option today would be to revisit 3-language formula

Social media users in India have been using English or Devanagari scripts for communicating in a language of their choice

Letter to BS: Hindi imposition controversy is deeper than it looks like

The opposition to the imposition of Hindi stems not just from the linguistic perspective, but also from the perception of it a being a 'cultural invasion'

Hindi fastest growing language in India, finds 100 million new speakers

Of the 99 unscheduled languages, Bhili/Bhilodi continue to have the most speakers (104 million), up from 95 million in 2001

There is no thrusting of Hindi: Nirmala Sitharaman rejects DMK's allegation

DMK announced state-wide seminars against what it called 'wanton thrusting' of Hindi by Centre

Plea to declare Hindi as national language withdrawn from HC

However, the petitioner told the bench that he would make a representation before Ministry of Home Affairs on the issue

Use of Hindi in higher judiciary not possible due to CJI's feedback

Hindi is currently being used in high courts of four states - Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar