{"id":2096,"date":"2013-01-11T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T08:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2013\/01\/11\/vijaye-beeharrys-hindi-french\/"},"modified":"2019-05-27T11:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T07:35:15","slug":"vijaye-beeharrys-hindi-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/vijaye-beeharrys-hindi-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijaye Beeharry\u2019s Hindi-French dictionary launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;\">By Vijaye Beeharry<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;\">Vijaye K. Beeharry\u2019s <strong><em>Dictionnaire Hindi-Fran\u00e7ais<\/em><\/strong> was launched yesterday at the <em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Indira Gandhi Centre for Indian Culture<\/span><\/em> by Education minister, Hon V. Bunwaree in the context of the World Hindi Day celebrated by the World Hindi Secretariat<em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">. <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal;\">In line with the objective of the World <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Hindi Secretariat<em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> to promote Hindi as an international language, Vijaye Beeharry published, some five years back, the<\/span><\/em><em><strong> Dictionnaire Trilingues <\/strong><\/em><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">(French-English-Hindi). Encouraged by the response from different stakeholders, he has gone deeper in this direction with the publication of the <\/span><\/em><strong><em>Dictionnaire Hindi-Fran\u00e7ais<\/em><\/strong><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">. Some 10,000 common Hindi words and expressions and their equivalent French words have been given. Mr Beeharry has gone beyond a mere literal translation of words by providing their alternative meanings. <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;\">The author, who spent nearly forty years promoting Hindi, is very optimistic about its future. With <span class=\"st1\">the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">balance<\/span><\/em><span class=\"st1\"> of economic <\/span><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">power<\/span><\/em><span class=\"st1\"> expected to <\/span><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">shift<\/span><\/em><span class=\"st1\"> dramatically in the years to come, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Hindi\u2019s importance as an international language will, according to Vijaye Beeharry, go on increasing. Many people living in French speaking areas are already keen to learn Hindi. At the same time, within India, contacts with French speaking countries require an understanding of the other language. The publication of this Hindi-French dictionary comes at an opportune time.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 12 January 2013<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vijaye Beeharry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[17166,17169,17167,17165,17168,1115],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dictionnaire-hindi-francais","tag-dictionnaire-trilingues","tag-hon-v-bunwaree","tag-vijaye-beeharry","tag-world-hindi-day","tag-world-hindi-secretariat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-xO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}