Logo for 11th World Hindi Conference was released on April 10.
The 11th World Hindi Conference or Vishwa Hindi Sammellan will be held at Mauritius' Port Louis. The dates of the conference are 18-20 August and will be held at Swami Vivekananda International Conference Center. The event, held once in three years, is dedicated to Hindi language. It sees participation from Hindi scholars, writers and laureates from different parts of the world who contribute to the language. The previous conference was held in Bhopal in 2015.
Mauritius Education Minister Leela Devi Dookhun Luchoomun and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday released the logo of 11th World Hindi Conference and the website of the event.
The logo was described by Mauritius Education Minister as the image of a ship struggling to keep sailing in the water is similar to what the difficulties Hindi is facing today.
Ms Swaraj said the conference is important to ensure that the language exists among the Indians living abroad.
"Language and culture go hand in hand. If language is lost, culture is lost. The conference is thus being organised to ensure that the Indian staying abroad do not forget it," she said.
Participant, including guests and delegates, can be registered only through an online process
here. The registration fee for general participant in Rs 5,000 and for students, it's Rs 1,000. The last day to register is July 15, 2018.
The first World Hindi Conference was held in 1975 in Nagpur, India and was inaugurated by then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi. Since then, ten such conferences have been held in different parts of the world.
A look at the places where 10 previous World Hindi Conference was held:1. First World Hindi Conference - Nagpur, India - 10-12 January, 1975
2. Second World Hindi Conference - Port Louis, Mauritius - 28-30 August, 1976
3. Third World Hindi Conference - New Delhi, India - 28-30 October, 1983
4. Fourth World Hindi Conference - Port Louis, Mauritius - 02-04 December, 1993
5. Fifth World Hindi Conference- Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - 04-08 April, 1996
6. Sixth World Hindi Conference - London, U.K. - 14-18 September,1999
7. Seventh World Hindi Conference - Paramaribo, Suriname - 06-09 June, 2003
8. Eighth World Hindi Conference - New York, America - 13-15 July, 2007
9. Ninth World Hindi Conference - Johannesburg, South Africa - 22-24 September, 2012
10. Tenth World Hindi Conference - Bhopal, India - 10-12 September, 2015
(With Inputs From ANI)