Monday 24 December 2012

Are We Ignoring our Regional Languages?


In India, there has been significant rise in number of people learning foreign languages in the recent years. We all are keen to learn international languages and global languages for their economic significance. Many of us join foreign language institutes to learn news foreign languages with wish to earn handsome income and secure job in renowned MNCs. But in midst of qualifying ourselves as foreign language specialists are we ignoring our own languages?

Marathi language is known for having some of the oldest literature of all modern Indo-European, Indic languages, dating from about 1000 AD. Other Indian languages like Sanskrit have been acknowledged by many computer experts in USA and Europe for playing a vital role in the development of computer language.

It is crucial that our own languages must not lose in oblivion. In many governments, like Maharashtra great initiatives has been taken by the government to promote Marathi language at local, national and international platform. 

Today, Marathi is the 19th most spoken language in the world and is the language of millions of people across the globe. Apart from government initiatives, other initiatives like Marathi news papers, Marathi books and latest online access of Marathi literature and Marathi websites have been crucial in promoting the language. Many renowned news papers and Marathi news channels now share live Marathi news to keep people updated. Marathi journalism has got a great response from both, online and offline audience. People usually like to communicate and get information in the language with which they are most comfortable. 

It is the reason why more and more youths are keen to join Marathi journalism. It is important that we should give due respect and take keen interest in our national and regional languages as much we give to others, after all they have played a crucial role in making us understand all other languages of the world.

Sunday 16 December 2012

Significance of Online Marathi News Websites


Spoken by over millions of people in the world and enjoy being the world’s 19th most spoken language, Marathi language has great influence on a significant number of people in the world. A large number of people love to communicate in Marathi, especially those belonging to the state of Maharashtra in India. 

As there are large number of Marathi speaking people in the world, many initiatives has been taken by government and private institutions to promote this language over global stage. Nowadays, it is easy to access all local, national and international news in Marathi language.
From Mumbai news to Pune news, one can get all news from Maharashtra as well as other parts of the world in Marathi at a click of a mouse through Marathi online newspaper. Such initiative has received tremendous response from the audience. Nowadays, a large number of people in Maharashtra are accessing online news paper Marathi or Marathi news live TV channels to get daily doses of news in Marathi language. 

Such online revolution has helped to give a global stage to Marathi language. Besides it, it is also an instant and affordable means of staying updated with the latest happenings in the world around you. Most of these online news papers cover news on a wide variety of topics such as international, national and local news, politics, Entertainment, business and sports.