Tamil Nadu: Wrong opinion about hindi must be dispelled

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'Wrong opinion about Hindi must be dispelled'

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The language is symbol of our soul, oneness: Lt. Governor

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— PHOTO:R.M. RAJARATHINAM.

Tamil Nadu: Wrong opinion about hindi must be dispelled 2010122761210301

Tamil Nadu: Wrong opinion about hindi must be dispelled 2010122761210301

Worthy pursuit: Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Iqbal Singh giving
away certificate to a student at ‘Visharad' convocation of Dakshina
Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha in Tiruchi on Sunday.

TIRUCHI: “Hindi is the symbol of our soul, tradition and oneness and
we must strive to change the people's wrong opinion about the language,”
the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, Iqbal Singh, said here on
Sunday.

“We must spread the language with the cooperation of all as it offers
maternal care and love to all the languages spoken from Kashmir to
Kanyakumari,” the Lieutenant Governor said, while delivering the
convocation address at the 14 state-level ‘Visharad' convocation of the
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha -Tamil Nadu at its premises in the
city.

Observing that no language teaches to hate other languages, he said
Hindi is not an enemy to any other language. Every Indian poet including
Valmiki, Kamban and Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi said the same truth
and expressed the same sentiments in various languages. The languages
may be different but the content is one, Dr.Iqbal Singh said.

“We may belong to the South or North; we may have different habits
and conventions and may even speak different languages. These are all
narrow walls. We have to demolish these narrow walls as we are basically
Indians. The country in which we live is superior to everything else,”
he said.

Mahatma Gandhi who had established the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar
Sabha way back in 1918 to spread the ideals of national integration,
patriotism and love of freedom had sent his son Devadas Gandhi as a
Hindi Pracharak to spread the language in Tamil Nadu. Great
personalities such as Raghuvar Dayal Mishra, Sardar Vedha Rathnam
Pillai, A.P.C.Veerabahu, Pandit Avadhanandhan, S.Chandramouli, Jaya
Dayal Dalmia, Pratap Narayan Vajpayee and G.K.Moopanar had laid a strong
foundation for the progress of the Tamil Nadu Sabha, he said.

He complimented the Sabha for teaching Hindi to women students and to all those who could not pursue formal education.

“I bow before the Sabha for its great service to the Tamil language
by publishing the poems of Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi, whose poems
were banned by the British government.” The Lt.Governor presented degree
certificates and medals to toppers in the ‘Visharad' examination
conducted in 2009. He released a Hindi book titled “Vedapuri ka Vikyat
Ratna” on freedom fighter Sardar Vedha Ratnam Pillai translated from
Tamil by M.Subramanian, the former secretary of the Sabha, with
financial assistance from the Central government.

Around 4,000 candidates received degree certificates .
A.P.C.V.Chockalingam, president, DBHPS, Tamil Nadu, first vice president
S.Arunachalam, treasurer B.Chinnayan, C.N.V.Annamalai, general
secretary, and others participated.

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