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India is home to a wide range of dialects and languages each with their own regional flavour. Post independence, Hindi with its large base of native speakers, together with English, has become the official language of India. To commemorate this recognition, the Government of India declared 14 September as Hindi Day. This is a celebration of Hindi's cultural and linguistic significance, and its role in national unity and identity.
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The event is associated with cultural and literary programmes.
For the first time, the Hindi Diwas is being organised in the UN premises. This provides an impetus to our collaborative effort of promoting multilingualism with the UN. Given our multilingual and pluralistic character of society, which coincides with the United Nations, holding the event in the UN also serves the purpose to connect with the wider audience, to achieve a higher scale of participation, including those from the Hindi- speaking Diaspora Missions such as Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana, Suriname etc.
The event encourages participation by Hindi-enthusiasts/ Diaspora members / Officials & family members of the UN /PMI/ CGI, in four categories of competition viz.
i) Essay competition on the theme of Women Empowerment (महिला सशक्तिकरण)
ii) Poetry on the importance of Hindi,
iii) Recital / singing of Hindi poems/songs and
iv) Quiz on India's Civilization.