Hindustan Times (Delhi)

Hindi is no longer last refuge of applicants

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Gone are the days when studying BA Honours (Hindi) was considered a compulsion for those who could not get admissions in the courses of their choice. Nowadays , BA (Hons) Hindi is a coveted course.

Those who have interest in learning language and literature should choose the course as Hindi, being a rich language, opens a lot of avenues of developmen­t.

Writing, translatio­n, dramatics and journalism, teaching are some of the job areas in which a Hindi student can use his skills. In the final semester, it offers two optional papers or you can say specializa­tion papers. These days, people having good command over Hindi are sought after in the fields of journalism, both print and electronic, and translatio­n. SSC conducts separate exams for cadre of translator­s. In order to abide by the constituti­onal provisions regarding Official Language, there are a number of posts of translator­s, Hindi Officers, Assistant Directors(OL) and Directors (OL) in each and every government office as well as in PSUs including banking sector. In some colleges like Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Aditi and Ram Lal Anand College, Department of Hindi also offers Honours course in Hindi journalism separately.

The paper of History of Hindi language and its script deals with the emergence and developmen­t of Hindi language and its various dialects as well and its script, Devnagri.

Papers of history of Hindi literature help the student understand the growth of Hindi literature during its developmen­t since 10th century AD. In addition to poetry, prose, drama it has two different papers on Indian and western literary school of thoughts and thinkers including Plato, Aristotle and Wordsworth.

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