{"id":270724,"date":"2025-09-15T00:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=270724"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:09:24","slug":"khandu-calls-for-wider-use-of-hindi-preserving-mother-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/khandu-calls-for-wider-use-of-hindi-preserving-mother-tongues\/","title":{"rendered":"Khandu calls for wider use of Hindi, preserving mother tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 14 Sep:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Sunday extended greetings on the occasion of Hindi Diwas, underlining the role of the language as a unifying factor in a linguistically diverse country like India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hindi Diwas is observed on 14 September every year to commemorate the adoption of Hindi as one of the official languages in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Arunachal Pradesh is known for its vibrant cultural heritage and diverse tribal languages. In such a context, Hindi has become a medium for us that connects different languages and cultures, making communication seamless,&#8221; Khandu said in a post in Hindi on X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Urging citizens to adopt Hindi more actively in everyday life, the chief minister remarked, &#8220;On this Hindi Diwas, let us all pledge together to make Hindi our daily language, thereby strengthening the unity and integrity of the nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heartfelt wishes to all on Hindi Diwas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khandu said that while Hindi unites people across the state and the nation, equal importance must be given to nurturing local tribal languages and traditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our diversity is our strength. Alongside Hindi, preserving and promoting our mother tongues is essential to safeguarding Arunachal&#8217;s cultural identity,&#8221; he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 14 Sep: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Sunday extended greetings on the occasion of Hindi Diwas, underlining the role of the language as a unifying factor in a linguistically diverse country like India. Hindi Diwas is observed on 14 September every year to commemorate the adoption of Hindi as one of the official languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-270724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}