DMK’s counter to Sahitya Akademi: Stalin announces annual National Award for best literary works in Indian languages
The award also carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh , with the Tamil Nadu government being the patron.
The award also carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh , with the Tamil Nadu government being the patron.
Calling Hindi a friend of all the Indian languages, the Union home minister stated that Hindi and Indian languages together could play an important role in enhancing the nation's self-esteem.
All our languages are like rivers-combine together to form the Ganga of Indian culture. Indian languages are the soul of our culture and our culture is the soul of India, he said while addressing a function on the occasion.
In the Bengali channels, the male panellists are articulate and witty; their bonhomie reflects their familiarity despite political differences in this cosy club of only male anelists. Women analysts or politicians feature rarely. Only on topics of violence against women; sometimes, women activists are vociferous. Such a discussion on rape can well have a mother of a girl or a working woman talking about the lack of safety infrastructure in both cities and villages. To keep matters real.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that the Centre has set apart Rs 100 crore for the projects aimed at introducing Vedas and Indian languages in curriculum.
Pradhan said that initiatives were in place for harnessing and integrating knowledge in Indian folklore and old literature.
"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.”
The book is a repudiation of Hindu nationalism, and its rise in Indian society, which relied upon an interpretation of the religion which was markedly different from the one with which he has grown up, practised and had studied.
Work is on for nine Indian scripts - Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has favoured teaching professional degrees like MBBS in Indian languages while batting for an educational…
