Gandhiji also stressed on the medium of education being the mother tongue – Hindi. When education is imparted in a foreign language, it obstructs expression of new ideas and limits the clarity over lectures. An education on the principles of non-violence was also one of the primary aspects ...
Hindi, Kannada, etc. - The diverse languages and dialects of India We spoke withDr. Naveen Uliat a celebration of Diwali hosted by the Kasturi Kannada Cultural Association. Dr. Uli said that while some think of the Indian diaspora as monolithic, in reality it is very diverse linguistically a...
Indira’s proactive style of governance meant she dealt with multifarious problems like drought relief, tackled riots in the North East and decisively carved out the state of Haryana for the Hindi speaking population of the erstwhile Punjab. She would meet around 500 people every morning at her ...
This meant that although Gandhi came into the marriage a modern woman of the West, she soon traded her miniskirts for saris and steeped herself in Indian culture. She even learned to speak Hindi, the official language of India. Rajiv reluctantly enters politics While Sonia Gandhi served as ...
Gandhi deeply admired Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, whose influence, he believed, was “multiplied a thousand-fold by his incarceration and his speech and his pen had acquired much greater power after he was discharged than before his imprisonment”. In a way, Tilak was the symbol of the strug...