World Hindi Day 2025 is celebrated on January 10.
Important Days
World Hindi Day, or Vishwa Hindi Diwas, is celebrated every year on January 10 to highlight the importance of the Hindi language and its role in connecting people around the world.
- The day is observed to honor Hindi’s global significance, showcase its cultural diversity, and promote it as an international language.
- The theme for this year is "A Global Voice of Unity and Cultural Pride," which aims to encourage linguistic exchange and global interaction through the use of Hindi.
- Hindi Diwas, also known as Hindi Day, is celebrated annually on September 14 to mark the adoption of Hindi, written in Devanagari script, as one of India’s 22 official languages. In 1949, Hindi was first spoken at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, USA.
Main Point :- (i) Hindi, derived from Persian and a descendant of Sanskrit, is the third most spoken language globally, with 4.46% of the population speaking it. Declared the official language of India in 1950 under Article 343, it is also one of the 22 scheduled languages in the Indian Constitution.
(ii) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) celebrates this day globally by organizing various events and activities through Indian embassies and cultural centers.
(iii) The first-ever World Hindi Day was celebrated on January 10, 2006, to mark the anniversary of the first World Hindi Conference held in Nagpur, Maharashtra, on January 10, 1975.
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