Tag Results: Hindi
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Hindi’s Meteoric Rise
On 14th September, 1949, 70 years ago, India’s Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi as the ‘Official language of the Republic of India’. On ‘Hindi Diwas’ here is the story of how a dialect spoken in a small stretch between Delhi and Meerut, grew to become our official Language.
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Fort William College & Its Ironic Legacy
Fort William College was meant to train young British lads for the Company but it ended up as a great centre of Indian languages. Find out how a college set up by the East India Company became the ‘birthplace of modern Hindi’ and went on to even influence the Bengal Renaissance
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A Poet to Remember
The story of Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’, whose fiery compositions of rebellion and patriotism spoke to every Indian, uniting them across divides.
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Premchand’s Failed Film Foray
India’s greatest novelist, Munshi Premchand didn’t quite make it as a script writer in India’s film industry... it just couldn’t take the power of his pen, it seems.