Simplify Hindi news to reach masses: Ambika Soni

The Hindi media should use simpler words to reach out to the non-Hindi speaking population, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said Tuesday, Sep 14.

'Some papers use very difficult Hindi words which cannot be understood by those who don't have Hindi as their mother tongue,' Soni said while participating in a seminar on the Hindi media on the occasion of 'Hindi Divas'.

Union Public Service Comission (UPSC) board member Purushottam Agarwal, CNN-IBN chief editor Rajdeep Sardesai, writer Namwar Singh, Hindi expert of Spanish origin Oscar Pujol, poet Ashok Chakradhar and editor and publisher of Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar Ramesh Chandra Agarwal, among others, participated in the event.

While Namwar Singh expressed apprehensions about the increased mix of languages used in the media, Pujol found colonialism the reason for continuing supremacy of English. Purushottam Agarwal, meanwhile, stressed on increasing knowledge literature in the language.

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Namwar Singh unravels democracy in literature

"Our democracy may be in danger, but the democracy in Literature is thriving. Literature does not recognize caste, gender or colour. It does not follow the rules of society," declared Prof. Namwar Singh, noted litterateur and recipient of the Sahitya Academy Award.

He was delivering the Fourth Silver Jubilee Lecture on 'The Democracy of Literature: Place of the Marginalised', organized by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) at the Convention Centre in its main campus.

The focus of the lecture was on various stages in the history of conflict between society and literature. Prof. Singh stressed that Literature is democratic. He presented several examples from the writings of prominent Hindi writers like Nirala, Sudama Pandey ‘Dhumil'. He read out from the poems of the above writers to illustrate how they placed 'Dalits’in their compositions.

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