New Delhi: National Award winner Ashish Vidyarthi has acted in hundreds of films in languages like Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Bengali, but the actor in him wants more. He also feels he has had fewer opportunities in Bollywood. A few weeks ago, filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj said Bollywood hasn’t given justice[Read More…]
Tag: Hindi
Namaste! Google Assistant now available in Hindi
New Delhi: Google on Thursday rolled out Hindi support for its virtual assistant Google. The Assistant in Hindi will be available on Android phones 6.0+ (Marshmallow and above) and will soon come to Android 5.0 Lollipop, iPhones as well as Android Oreo (Go edition) devices. Google Assistant is already available in[Read More…]
Hindi support coming to Google Assistant soon
San Francisco: Google Assistant is set to get smarter as the company makes it ready to be multilingual and be available in more than 30 languages, including Hindi, by the end of this year. The search engine giant’s digital assistant will be able to respond by text in Hindi, Danish, Dutch,[Read More…]
War of words in LS over making Hindi official language at UN
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor traded barbs in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday over making Hindi an official language at the United Nations. Tharoor questioned the need to push it while the Minister called his remark “ignorant”. Sushma Swaraj, in her reply to a question,[Read More…]
Hindi plays a big role in unifying India, says Vice President
Hindi has played a historic role in the development of India’s unity, integrity, and linguistic goodwill and for the unification of the nation there is no element more powerful than the language spoken by most Indians, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said on Sunday. Naidu was addressing the 16th annual[Read More…]
Here’s what Priyanka Chopra has to say on AR Rahman’s concert controversy
Oscar-winning music composer, AR Rahman received huge backlash for singing mostly Tamil songs at a UK concert recently in Wembley, London on 8 July. The outrage of the fans went to an extent that some even asked for the refunds. Music lovers, who attended Rahman’s concert, walked out halfway when[Read More…]
Karnataka to protest against imposition of Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states
Karnataka will protest against Centre on imposition of Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states, said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. While talking about the mounting protests against “imposition” of Hindi in Bengaluru, he said, “The Karnataka government will not tolerate imposition of Hindi. Hindi is being used in Metro rail citing the three-language[Read More…]
Rashmirathi: Krishna ki Chetavani by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Rashmirathi is one of the classics of modern Hindi Literature. Most of our understanding of Mahabharata stems from B R Chopra’s television adaptation of Mahabharata, which is often described as a limited version of the epic. Over the years, innumerable people have written the Mahabharata from the perspective of its many characters. Rashmirathi[Read More…]
Sridevi’s ‘Mom’ will release in four languages
Sridevi starrer ‘Mom’ will release in four languages including Tamil, Telugu Malayalam and Hindi. “One of India’s biggest superstars of all time, Sridevi has completed over 50 years in the film industry and has a massive fan base. Her fans are eagerly anticipating her films and the distributors especially down[Read More…]
PIL in SC to make Hindi compulsory from Class I-VIII
A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre, states and union territories to make Hindi compulsory for students of class I-VIII across the country to promote unity and national integration. The plea is likely to come up for hearing next week in the[Read More…]