Hyderabad: Hindi, The connecting tissue of country: EFLU Vice-Chancellor

Hyderabad: Hindi Language is the connecting tissue of the country building a collective consciousness of unity in diversity among the countrymen said Prof E Suresh Kumar, the Vice-Chancellor of The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU). He was speaking at the two-day International Seminar on 'Hindi and Foreign Languages and Literatures: Global Perspectives' organized by the Department of Hindi, School of Literary Studies here on Thursday.

Referring to the variations of Hindi language being spoken in different parts of the country, he described that such variations indicate the assimilative and adaptable nature of language in its expansion and refinement. The Vice-Chancellor called for an enrichment of language with euphemistic expressions which brings elitism and distinction to language. A language that builds on tradition, sustained by its culture, and is propelled by the communicative richness of its speakers will be sure to emerge as a global language, he felt.

Dr. Peter Sagi, Votvos Lorand University, Hungary, the Guest of Honour on the occasion informed that Hindi is one of the chosen languages of the European learners and is expanding very fast. He told that the poetic renderings of a good number of Hungarian poets have been translated into Hindi. Prof Arun Kamal of Patna University said that Hindi language has a tradition that is bound to its culture. In the globalized era, the cultural ethos of people undergoing change in terms of linguistic factors prescribe a tall order of adaptability for the languages, he stressed.

Prof T Samson, Dean, School of Literary Studies, drew attention to the postmodern concept of intertextuality, and the postcolonial undertone of mimicry which offered the modern writers to invent newer modes of expression. The members of faculty, research scholars, students, teacher administrators, and several delegates from different universities and institutions were present at the inauguration.