subject: The Importance Of The Dying Hindi Newspaper On Our Lives... [print this page] India, whose population is second largest in the world, has a wide array of languages and as one moves from one place to another the aural senses are treated with a shifting bouquet of languages. Hindi being the national language of India is spoken widely. Though not everybody speaks Hindi, most are capable of understanding some rudimentary Hindi vocabulary. India has 28 states and most states have their distinct language. With the exception of some states in the South, most Indians can carry on a decent conversation in Hindi. Most of Northern India speaks Hindi. This includes the states Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Northern Bihar, and Himachal Pradesh. Outside India, many countries have a sizable Hindi speaking population. Some countries with Hindi speaking groups are Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, South Africa, Singapore, Uganda, Nepal, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
As a path breaking media channel of the 21st century, the internet has not only revolutionized how people do business now, but has also changed the whole face of social integration. As a virtual counterpart to the already established medium of giving news, internet wields immense potential for development. Taking the conventional cue from the print media and the electronic media, the online media has brought about a new way of offering news to the alert and the concerned. Displaying the same news on their websites to incite a similar intensity among the viewers, many online news channels have made their presence felt in recent times. Whats interesting and quite commendable is the fact that even Hindi news websites have come up, some as online divisions of already existing Hindi television news channels as well as some new players in the marquee. These news websites have the complete professional getup of a media house with snippets of the mains news running in grids through the homepage with special emphasis on the breaking news running like tickers mostly.
It has been seen from various surveys conducted on online news websites that people find the existence of such sites really helpful to keep up with whats happening in the society. People especially engaged in corporate houses, without much room or time to catch up with sporadic news through the day through newspapers or television can hit up on these sites through the internet. With most of them finding it comfortable to surf through channels that carry Hindi newspaper when watching them home on television carry out their impulse in similar fashion on the internet as well.
