17-Sep-2018: President of India graces event to felicitate Indian Scholars of 11th World Hindi Conference

The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, graced a function organised to felicitate Indian scholars who were acknowledged at the 11th World Hindi Conference – held recently in Mauritius – in New Delhi.

Speaking on the occasion, the President said that Hindi has a strong presence on the world map. Outside India, more than one crore people speak Hindi and it is being taught in universities of major countries. The 11th World Hindi Conference saw the participation of more than 2,000 representatives from 45 countries.

The President said that to enhance its presence, Hindi has to adapt to science and technology – both in content and dissemination. We live in the age of technology, the President said. Smart-phones are eroding distances between languages and technology could similarly be used in the propagation of Hindi. The President also praised the role played by Hindi cinema in popularising the language in India and abroad.

19-Aug-2018: 11th World Hindi Conference, Mauritius

The 11th World Hindi Conference (WHC) is being organized from 18-20 August 2018 in Mauritius by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in association with the Government of Mauritius. The decision to organize the 11th edition of the Conference in Mauritius was taken at the 10th World Hindi Conference held in Bhopal, India in September 2015.

Details of the previous ten  World Hindi Conferences held so far are as follows:

Conference	Location	Year
First	Nagpur, India	1975
Second	Port Louis, Mauritius	1976
Third	New Delhi, India	1983
Fourth	Port Louis, Mauritius	1993
Fifth	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	1996
Sixth	London, U.K.	1999
Seventh	Paramaribo, Suriname	2003
Eighth	New York, America	2007
Ninth	Johannesburg, South Africa	2012
Tenth	Bhopal, India	2015

The main theme of the Conference is "Hindi Vishwa Aur Bharatiya Sanskriti". The venue of the Conference is "Swami Vivekanand International Convention Centre", Pailles Mauritius.

A number of exhibitions focusing on the developments of Hindi language will be organised at the conference venue. During the conference, evening cultural programmes and a Kavi Sammelan will be organized by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, New Delhi.

The Hindi language is written in Devanagari script and influenced by one of the most important and studied languages in history, Sanskrit. Hindi is considered to be the official language of the government of India and one of the 22 recognized languages of India. Around 545 million people speak Hindi in India, 425 million consider it their first language and 120 million consider it their second language. It is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world.

This conference provides a great platform to learn not only Hindi Language but also to learn, understand our Indian Culture and Traditions closely.