Indian businessmen announce grant to promote Hindi in Israel

[Rahul9090]

Tel Aviv:In a major boost to promotion of Hindi in Israel, Indian businessmen here have announced a grant of about USD 33,000 for students learning the language, during World Hindi Day Celebration at Tel Aviv University.


The grant by the businessmen engaged at the diamond exchange here will support travel expenses of students, who excel in Hindi at the varsity, to enable them to visit India to sharpen Hindi language skills during the next five years.



The candidates will be selected through "Kaun Bharat Jayega" contest similar on the lines of famous television show "Kaun Banega Crorepati." They will be accompanied by a Hindi alumni of the University.



"It is a matter of pride for us to see so many people learning our national language in Israel and to see such enthusiasm for Indian culture. It is an effort from our side to promote a resurgent India in Israel," Ranjit Barmeja, a leader of the Indian diamond community at the exchange here, told PTI.



Barmeja added: "we have been living here since 1980s, before the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and we hope this contribution will help in strengthening our bilateral ties."



Not to be left behind, the Dean of Humanities at the University, Prof Eyal Zisser, also announced instituting a fund to support field trip to India for students learning Hindi. The details will be worked out later by the department of East Asian studies where Hindi is taught along with Japanese and Chinese.



Hundreds of enthusiasts participated in the Hindi Day celebrations at the University yesterday during which students staged plays including Shakuntala, sang Bollywood songs, read Sanskrit shlokas and enacted scenes from Hindi films.



"Foreign companies working in India have started to advertise now in Hindi as they have understood that they can touch the hearts of 100 crore Indians only through Hindi. Those who know Hindi do have an edge while doing business in India," India's Ambassador to Israel Jaideep Sarkar told the audience during the event.



Thanking Genady Shlomper, Hindi teacher at the varsity, Sarkar said "he has been the flag bearer of Hindi language for decades here and served wholeheartedly and selflessly towards the promotion of the language."



Shlomper, a proponent of Hindi as an official language at the UN, was honoured by the Indian government at the 8th World Hindi Conference in 2007 in New York for popularising the language in Israel.

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[harpoon]

How about giving grand to study Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states in India?

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Shalom - Namaste ? Another Bollywood movie

 

[jandk]

Israelis will become bhaiya

 

[INDIC]

How about giving grand to study Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states in India?

You know the attitude of the people. There were guys who fought 80 pages on a Pakistani forum why South Indians shouldnot learn Hindi.

 

[harpoon]

You know the attitude of the people. There were guys who fought 80 pages on a Pakistani forum why South Indians shouldnot learn Hindi.

I am South Indian and I am open to any language...Indian or non-Indian.

 

[INDIC]

Israelis will become bhaiya

Khariboli is the language of Jaats and original Khariboli is extremely rustic

 

[Tshering22]

You know the attitude of the people. There were guys who fought 80 pages on a Pakistani forum why South Indians shouldnot learn Hindi.

The problem is politicization. I am from Sikkim and know more Hindi than many metropolitan living north Indians. Tamil, Kannada politicians politicized language so much and filled people with so many lies and fear that they feel that their state language is being exterminated.

Which is actually wrong and misplaced.

If we had Sanskrit as a common verbal language, it would have made them feel safe since all will have to learn it.

But yeah, before that, the JNU sponsored Indian history lies of aryan and dravidian divide has to be banned.

 

[jandk]

The problem is politicization. I am from Sikkim and know more Hindi than many metropolitan living north Indians. Tamil, Kannada politicians politicized language so much and filled people with so many lies and fear that they feel that their state language is being exterminated.

Which is actually wrong and misplaced.

If we had Sanskrit as a common verbal language, it would have made them feel safe since all will have to learn it.

But yeah, before that, the JNU sponsored Indian history lies of aryan and dravidian divide has to be banned.

Is the AIT really included in the school curriculum?

 

[he-man]

The problem is politicization. I am from Sikkim and know more Hindi than many metropolitan living north Indians. Tamil, Kannada politicians politicized language so much and filled people with so many lies and fear that they feel that their state language is being exterminated.

Which is actually wrong and misplaced.

If we had Sanskrit as a common verbal language, it would have made them feel safe since all will have to learn it.

But yeah, before that, the JNU sponsored Indian history lies of aryan and dravidian divide has to be banned.

i hope i am not among those many people

 

[BDforever]

You know the attitude of the people. There were guys who fought 80 pages on a Pakistani forum why South Indians shouldnot learn Hindi.

@SarthakGanguly

 

[INDIC]

The problem is politicization. I am from Sikkim and know more Hindi than many metropolitan living north Indians. Tamil, Kannada politicians politicized language so much and filled people with so many lies and fear that they feel that their state language is being exterminated.

Which is actually wrong and misplaced.

If we had Sanskrit as a common verbal language, it would have made them feel safe since all will have to learn it.

But yeah, before that, the JNU sponsored Indian history lies of aryan and dravidian divide has to be banned.

North-East people know fluent Hindi, so they find it easy to assimilate in North India. Politicizing was only with Tamil politicians, Kannadas aren't anti-Hindi although they are too sensitive to their language.

Is the AIT really included in the school curriculum?

NCERT book don't use the term AIT but they say Aryans arrived in 1500BC in end of the chapter on Indus valley civilization.

 

[Bang Galore]

Tamil, Kannada politicians politicized language so much and filled people with so many lies and fear that they feel that their state language is being exterminated.

Which is actually wrong and misplaced.

Hardly misplaced. Languages can & do get overrun. The fear is genuine. The approach to it must be to allow for the growth at a leisurely pace. There is little logic in asserting that South Indians must compulsorily learn Hindi. Others can equally learn English, which is the other official language of the Indian state.

Btw, your inclusion of Kannada speaking politicians in the same bracket as Tamil politicians is odd. There is no great opposition to Hindi in Karnataka, nor has there ever been any opposition remotely on the scale of what happened/happens in TN. Nor do Karnataka politicians(or people) ever resort to a Dravidian-Aryan argument. There are simply no takers for such arguments which remains the preserve of interested parties in TN alone.

 

[Tshering22]

Hardly misplaced. Languages can & do get overrun. The fear is genuine. The approach to it must be to allow for the growth at a leisurely pace. There is little logic in asserting that South Indians must compulsorily learn Hindi. Others can equally learn English, which is the other official language of the Indian state.

Btw, your inclusion of Kannada speaking politicians in the same bracket as Tamil politicians is odd. There is no great opposition to Hindi in Karnataka, nor has there ever been any opposition remotely on the scale of what happened/happens in TN. Nor do Karnataka politicians(or people) ever resort to a Dravidian-Aryan argument. There are simply no takers for such arguments which remains the preserve of interested parties in TN alone.

My bad on Karnataka.

But I think India's beauty comes from all its regional languages.

As a mandate it will never be overrun.

 

[Contrarian]

My bad on Karnataka.

But I think India's beauty comes from all its regional languages.

As a mandate it will never be overrun.

Yup. Its essentially Tamil Nadu with some people of Kerala who have a particular issue with Hindi. Karnataka is mostly just neutral and many Kannadigas not only are okay with Hindi but speak it without any whining(the way TN people do).