Mamta Kalia

looking at the policies of the Dutch
government, it looks like as if the teaching
and learning of Hindi will come to an
end here, just as in the case of Indology
and Indian knowledge. But in spite of
this we will keep singing slogans of the
victory of Hindi at the global level without
making attempts to find out the actual
state of Hindi in other countries of the
world.
Even if the Netherlands government
withdraws its hand from promoting Hindi,
the governments of other countries in
Europe should seriously consider that
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the help they give other minority
communities and groups for different
reasons should be extended to Hindi
organizations too. The fact of the matter
is that the future of Hindi in Europe
will be secure only when India becomes
a permanent member of the United
Nations Security Council and Hindi
becomes accepted as a language of the
United Nations. It is only then that,
as in the rest of Europe, in the Netherlands
too Hindi will gain establishment and
popularity as English, French, Spanish
and Portuguese have gained.
Pushpita Awasthi, born in 1960 at Kanpur, educated at Varanasi, is
a poet, short story writer and academician. She was first secretary
at Suriname from 2001 to 2005. She now lives in The Netherlands
where she is founder director of Hindi Universe Foundation.
Satya Chaitanya, born 1952, has his management consultancy. He is
visiting professor at XLRI and several other management studies’ institutions.
He knows Hindi, Malayalam, Sanskrit and English and translates multilingually.
He lives in Jamshedpur.