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New York to host world Hindi meet from Friday

IANS | By, New York
Jul 10, 2007 03:41 PM IST

The meet will discuss issues such as teaching Hindi in foreign countries and role of IT in promoting Hindi.

Poet-filmmaker Gulzar and director Jagmohan Mundhra will be among 1,000 Hindi lovers and scholars at the eighth World Hindi Conference in New York from Friday.

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The three-day meet will be inaugurated at the UN headquarters in New York. Delegates will include 225 from the US and 450 from India, said Neelam Deo, Indian consul general in New York.

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With the theme "Hindi on the World Stage", the conference aims to promote and project Hindi globally.

The obvious signal being sent out is that Hindi, the second most widely spoken language in the world after Chinese, should be added to the list of official languages of the UN.

The nine conference sessions will deliberate on issues such as teaching Hindi in foreign countries and the role of information technology in promoting Hindi.

The conference has been organised by the Indian external affairs ministry in collaboration with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, US.

Anand Sharma, minister of state for external affairs and chairman of the steering committee for the conference, will be present.

Apart from Gulzar and Mundhra, film director Mahesh Bhatt is likely to participate. They are to deliberate at the session on the role of Hindi films in promoting Hindi, said P Jayaraman, director of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New York.

He added that 20 Hindi scholars each from India and overseas would be honoured at the conference.

Cultural programmes at the conference include poetry recitation, sitar recital by Shujat Khan, Bharatanatyam by Geeta Chandran and ghazals by Pankaj Udhas.

National Book Trust is organising a book exhibition at the venue that will display 900 Hindi titles. Over 20 Hindi books will be launched.

Hindi is taught at 30 major US universities, including Columbia.

The Hindi conference has earlier been held in Nagpur (1975), Port Louis (Mauritius - twice, 1976 and 1993), New Delhi (1983), Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago, 1996), London (1999) and Paramaribo (Suriname, 2003).

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