Hindi Diwas Speech
Hindi is the national language of India and is spoken by the majority of Indian citizens. The Hindi language is one of the oldest languages in the world and includes terminology from the Sanskrit language written in the Devanagari script. However, there was a time when India did not have an official language as it was under British rule. After Independence, Hindi was adopted as the official language of India on 14th September 1949. To mark the day of adopting Hindi as the official language, 14th September is now celebrated every year as Hindi Diwas.
Hindi was made the official language of India after the Constituent Assembly passed a resolution for legal recognition. It was Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first President of India, who decided to celebrate 14th September as Hindi Diwas. Since then, Hindi Diwas has been celebrated to spread awareness about the importance of Hindi as a language for culturally uplifting India.
Several people, including Beohar Rajendra Simha, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Maithili Sharan Gupt, Kaka Kalelkar and Seth Govind Das, also contributed to the efforts to adopt Hindi as the official language of India. Apart from India, Hindi is also spoken in other countries such as Giji, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Guyana and Nepal.
After Independence, India wanted to do away with the leftover British culture in India by idealising Hindi. It made a plan to standardise the Hindi language by using the Devanagri script to adopt its grammar and orthography. The adoption of Hindi was one of the most important factors in the process of approving the final draft of the Indian Constitution. Once the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi as the official language in September 1949, the Indian Consitution’s final draft was approved one month later in November 1949.
Hindi Diwas is a part of the extended week that starts on September 14th and goes on till September 21 and is called Rajbhasha Week. During this week, numerous competitions, such as essay writing, poetry writing, debating etc., are held in government offices and educational institutes that revolve around Hindi and its importance in India’s culture. An award named Bhasha Samman was also started on the day of Hindi Diwas. The Bhasha Samman award is given to people who have contributed immensely to the Hindi language through their writing or by any other means.
On Hindi Diwas, we should all be proud that we are Indian citizens who speak and write one of the oldest and most culturally significant languages in the whole world.
