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8th International Hindi Festival : 6th and 7th Feb 2010
8th International Hindi Festival was organized by ‘Aksharam’ in collaboration with ICCR (Indian council for cultural Relations) at ICCR auditorium, Azad Bhawan ITO, New Delhi on 6th & 7th February 2010. Two teachers of the school Shikha Sharma and Sapna Khosla attended the inauguration ceremony on 6th February 2010 of the two day programme. The president of ICCR Dr. Karan Singh started the programme in which Mahamahim Mukeshwar Chunni, High commissioner of Mautitius was the Chief Guest. The Guests of Honour of the occasion were Dr. Ratnakar Pandey & Smt. Kamla Singhavi. Several Hindi laureates from India and abroad were also present. Prof. Tatyana Oranskaiya from Germany, Prof. Genadi Shlomper from Israel, Dr. Naresh Bhartiya from Britain and Tatyana Duvyanskaya from Russia were among them.
In his inaugural speech Dr. Karan Singh said that the number of people who are interested in learning Hindi is increasing and Hindi Films are playing a major role in this. The ideals of Indian culture should flourish through the medium of Hindi. Hindi should not be used as a language in the world, but as a cultural definition.
Famous Hindi writer and poet Dr. Kanhaiya Lal Nandan in his presidential speech gave blessings for the success of this two day programme.
Prof. Genadi of Israel said that when the Indian people hear him speaking in Hindi, they are amazed. They think that if this people is speaking in Hindi, then he is their well wisher and has not come to harm them.
Prof. Tatyana came from Russia to attend this event. She said that many people in her country want to learn Hindi but the facilities are not enough. If this is taken care of then Hindi will be the language of the world family.
The second session opened the new horizons for Hindi as a computer language. There are many software programmes available which are very useful for the learners and users of Hindi. One such programme was a bilingual Thesauras (Hindi-English-Roman) – Arvind Lexican, which has been prepared after the hard work of 35 years. It has more than 600,000 English and Hindi expressions. Other software was Shrutlekham Software by CDAC in which the typing in Hindi could be done by speech only. Microsoft – indic – language – tool provides a key – board which is common for all Indian languages.
It was a memorable experience for both of the teachers.
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