STATE TIMES NEWS
PORT LOUIS: Balwant Thakur, the Director of Indira Gandhi Centre for Indian Culture (IGCIC) High Commission of India Mauritius on Sunday addressed 25 Nations as Chief Guest on a platform of World Hindi Secretariat (an organisation representing India, Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, and Nepal) Central Hindi Directorate, Government of India and Global Hindi Family (a joint organisation of 25 countries) in the centenary celebrations of a prolific Mauritian Hindi writer Somdutt Bakhori.
Prominent Hindi scholars from across the globe participated in this historic literary symposia.
While addressing 25 nations globally, Balwant said that we all need to take pride in the fact that Hindi is the 3rd most spoken language of the glove and has contributed immensely in taking India to the world.
Coming to Somdutt Bakhori whose Birth Centenary is being created by the literary world globally has been one of the pioneers of Hindi movement in Mauritius. He had the equal hold over poetry, prose and playwriting. As a writer of both Hindi and English languages he has always been admitting that he wrote Hindi from the heart and English from the brain.
Striking this balance he published 18 different books in both the languages covering a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from travelogues, criticism, plays, poetry to government and governance.
This is heartening to note that Balwant Thakur within a period of four months has done tremendous diplomatic work aimed at strengthening cultural relations between India and Mauritius.