AMU celebrates Hindi Week
ALIGARH : The Official Language (Hindi) Implementation Committee, Aligarh Muslim University held a week-long celebration to mark the Hindi Week.
Addressing the celebratory function held in the Arts Faculty lounge, the chief guest, former officiating Vice Chancellor, AMU, Prof. Mohammad Gulrez stressed the need to connect the common people with Hindi and make it a language of everyday life.
He said there was need for making the language easy and understandable for common people by adopting easy diction of other colloquial languages. He said that Hindi is very popular in other countries as well, and we can make it more popular in other parts of the world through the translation of its rich literary treasure.
The keynote speaker, Prof. Jitendra Srivastava, Faculty of Humanities and Director, International Division, IGNOU, New Delhi, elaborated on the contemporary scenario of Hindi poetry.
In his analysis of literary ideologies of the last 60 years, concerning Hindi poetry, Prof. Srivastava said that the strength of Hindi poetry has been Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of ‘reach out to the last man’ and even today if it has to remain relevant, it will have to embrace the last man in society.
He underscored the current trends in Hindi poetry, including the issues of public concern, progressive values and revolutionary consciousness. He said that self-criticism, love and domestic issues have been popular trends in poetry over the last sixty years, however, there is a fundamental difference in the approach of male and female poets.
In his presidential remarks, the Dean, Faculty of Arts, Prof. Arif Nazir said that we love Hindi but all languages are important for us. India’s progress can be possible only by taking along all languages. He stressed the need for translation of literary works of all languages to develop people’s interest in other languages as well.
Welcoming the guests, the Chairman of the Hindi Department, Prof. Mohd. Aashiq Ali said that the amount of work being done in Hindi language in AMU today is remarkable.
As the Secretary of the Official Language (Hindi) Implementation Committee, he presented a report of the work done by the committee over the last one year.
Prof. Shahul Hameed was the Coordinator of the programme.
Prof. Shambhunath Tiwari conducted the programme, while Prof. Meraj extended a vote of thanks.