Tamil Nadu must be vanguard in promoting hindi: Justice Malimath

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December 27, 2009




‘TN must be vanguard in promoting Hindi’



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THE HINDU
Justice V.S. Malimath, President and Chancellor of Dakshina Bharath
Hindi Prachar Sabha, Chennai, giving away the medal to rank student at a
function Tiruchi on Sunday.Photo: R.M. Rajarathinam







Having made signal contribution to the freedom
struggle, Tamil Nadu must be in the vanguard in promoting teaching of
our national language Hindi, Justice V.S. Malimath, Chancellor &
President Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Chennai, said here on
Sunday.
The national poet Subramania Bharathi in his
article Young India published in 1905 had emphasised the need and
importance of our people learning Hindi, Justice Malimath said, while
delivering the convocation address at the 13th Visharad Convocation of
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Tamil Nadu.
"We
must remember that Hindi has a place of pride in the languages spoken in
the world, the language spoken by the third largest number of people in
the world next only to Chinese and English. Hindi is spoken by the
largest number of people in India." Justice Malimath said.
Founded
by Mahatma Gandhi in 1918, the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha has a
unique and distinguished heritage and enjoys a pride of place in the
nation. People of South India are fortunate that they are blessed with
such a great institution to foster teaching of Hindi to our people. "We
must take full advantage of the same and become active participants in
the nation building activity", Justice Malimath pointed out.
It
was after an enormous struggle and great sacrifices that we were able
to break the shackles of slavery and become a free and independent
nation. People from all parts of India joined the freedom struggle
irrespective of their religion, caste, creed or language.
"People
of India must live together as members of one family if we have to
preserve Independence and maintain unity and integrity of our nation. It
is for this reason that the founding fathers of our constitution chose
Hindi our national language", Justice Malimath said. He congratulated
the students for attaining proficiency in Hindi.
Visharad
degree certificates were distributed to over 3,000 students on the
occasion. Rank holders of the exam and four senior Pracharaks were
honoured on the occasion.
The president, Dakshina
Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Tamil Nadu A.P.C.V. Chokkalingam presided
over the convocation. R.F. Nirlakatti, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Post
Graduate and Research Institute, Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha,
Chennai, First Vice President of Tamil Nadu Sabha S. Arunachalam, M.S.
Muralidharan, Second Vice President of the Sabha, Chennai, General
Secretary C.N.V. Annamalai and Second Vice President of the Tamil Nadu
Sabha S. Ravindran and others participated in the programme.


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