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Hindi journalism finds itself on online crossroads

As the second session, the Role of Hindi in Policy Making had distinguished attendees including renowned writer Vikram Seth and others from film, art, literature fraternity.
The panelists were veteran journalist Om Thanvi, Nidhi Kulpati, Saurabh Dwivedi, Atul Chaurasia and were moderated by Harshvardhan Tripathi.
The fight of Hindi language is directly from the domination of English. Om Thanvi said, “The problem or fight of Hindi is not the English language but its domination over society.”
The panelists spoke on how the inferiority assumed by the people who speak Hindi holds them back from doing bold things. Some said the inferiority is an armour to shout against the miserable plight of the language.

The Hindi media as well as society has to introspect on it, they said. There was a phase when the editors ignored the revenue models and due to this many reputed media organizations had to shut their operations. Hindi literature and media has always been hesitant to the globalized market – which is the truth in the current course of time. They have to go hand in hand.

Governments have always been in a dilemma on the condition of English. They make laws for the development of Hindi as a language. They have a complete mechanism of bureaucracy to implement these laws but it is completely under the influence of English. The Hindi developed by this bureaucracy is more of conservative, culturist and most of the time meaningless.

This is very similar to the hymns which a common man doesn’t understand. Hence, they have to go to scholars of the religion to understand it and they explain them accordingly. Similarly, the language of policies is so complex and purist that people have to depend on the bureaucracy to understand it.


Cover Art: Abhishek Mitra 
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