World Hindi Day celebrations

The Indian Cultural Centre, Colombo, is organising the ‘World Hindi Day’ on 10 January 2013 from 3.30 pm to 7 pm in its auditorium at 16/2 Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7.

As part of the celebrations Certificates will be distributed to the students who passed the Hindi examinations and prizes will be given to the winners of the competitions held in Hindi Diwas 2012. It will be followed by a conference on “Influence of Hindi in Sri Lanka”.

Indian High Commissioner Ashok K Kantha will be inaugurating the conference as the Chief Guest.

The participants in the conference will be Founder and Director of Hindi Niketan Saranaguptha Weerasinghe, Prof. Lakshman Senevirathna of the University of Kelaniya, Prof. Indralatha Dissanayake (retired) of the University of Kelaniya and Nilanthi Rajapakse of theUniversity of Jayawardenepura.

The conference will be followed by a variety programme by ICC students.