Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Hindi Diwas




“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart.”  -- Nelson Mandela

India is famous for its culture which includes dance, music, religion and language. India speaks many languages and few of them are unknown to us, as we are not aware about them. According to a research out of 100% most of the Indians speak from the family of Indo-Aryan language.  According to People’s Linguistic Survey of India, 220 Indian languages have disappeared in the past 50 years and more could disappear in the coming time. Now only 780 languages are spoken in India. The most spoken language in India is Hindi. Hindi is ranked on 4th position for most widely spoken languages around the world.

 
Hindi was officially adopted as the official language of India on 14 September, 1949. Our Hindi teacher Ms. Vijayalaxmi decided that all Hindi students in our class would conduct a program and that we could tell everyone the importance of this day and the language also. All of us worked together to plan all the activities and events and distribute them equally between us. I along with my friend shafqat were chosen to host the program. Being a Hindi student I didn’t have command on my Hindi language. This activity was a new challenge for me. I had never hosted a program in Hindi therefore I took up this challenge. I took up this responsibility and I hope not to do any mistakes.




Me and my friend Shafqat planned what all to say and made a file of it so that we stay organized and if there are any changes we would not get confused.  All of us planned that before the program starts, we would ask our respected director sir to do the puja of goddess Saraswati. In India Maa Saraswasti is the goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom and learning.





During the show I felt that I was contributing to a very good event by letting people know the importance of the language Hindi. In the first few minutes I was nervous but as soon as the show started I shooed my nervousness and started off the program. The program usually started off with the prayer but this this it was a Hindi prayer.


After this we had the thoughts and news in hindi. To make the assembly fun we had small quiz between the two houses ruby and sapphire.  It was so great to see the juniors take part in the program and to see their interest in participation and contributing for the program. During the program when I was hosting I felt confident and gained a bit of command on my language, this was the area where I gained knowledge about this skill and I hope to make it strong till next time. After the show our Hindi teacher appreciated that we did a good job.  It was really fun to do this activity when u know yourself and improve. I felt really happy when our Hindi teacher appreciated and said we put up a good program.  Till then enjoy!

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