Excelsior Correspondent
PORT LOUIS (MAURITIIUS), Oct 31: Balwant Thakur, the Director of Indira Gandhi Centre for Indian Culture High Commission of India Mauritius today addressed 25 nations as chief guest on a platform of World Hindi Secretariat in the centenary celebrations of 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 Thakur said that we all need to take pride in the fact that Hindi is the third most spoken language of the glove and has contributed immensely in taking India to the world. While Hindi is widely spoken in India, Mauritius, Nepal and Guyana but it is also spreading its wings in USA, South Africa, Uganda, Bangladesh, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, Canada, Germany, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, UK etc, he added.
Somdutt Bakhori, whose birth centenary is being celebrated 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.
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