After CAA Protests & Abrogation OF Article 370, 'Samvidhaan' Becomes Oxford Hindi Word Of 2019
Samvidhan or the Indian Constituion chosen as Oxford Hindi Word of the Year. 2019 was witness to the spirit of the Indian Constitution being embraced across each and every segment of the society. This is what prompted the panel at OUP India to declare Samvidhan as the word of the year.
2019 was witness to the spirit of the Indian Constitution being embraced across each and every segment of the society.
Starting from The Sabarimala verdict allowing women to visit the Lord Ayyappa temple to the Citizenship Amendment Protests, the constitution was evoked time and again.
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This is what prompted the panel at OUP India, a department of the University of Oxford, to declare Samvidhan or the Indian Constituion as the word of the year.
The IANS quoted Kritika Agarwal, Hindi Language Champion for Oxford Languages, saying, " In 2019, the Constitution moved from being an academic concept to a movement in real-time."
''Samvidhaan'' also received widespread attention last year with the abrogation of two key constitutional provisions -- Articles 370 and Article 35(A) -- on August 5, 2019 which removed the special status granted to Jammu & Kashmir. The revocation of the articles led to nationwide debates and discussions, bringing the word to the forefront of conversations across the country.
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"The year 2019 witnessed the values of democracy, secularism, justice, liberty, equality and fraternity being tested on the touchstone of the Constitution or Samvidhaan. This is why it has been chosen as Oxford Hindi Word of the Year," the OUP statement said.
"While the HWOTY has great resonance for the year in which it was chosen, it doesn''t mean that the word will automatically go into any Oxford dictionaries," OUP said, adding that in "future years we might also look for a Word of the Year in other Indian languages".
The Oxford Hindi Word of the Year was chosen with the help of an advisory panel of language experts: Naveen Choudhary, Associate Director, Marketing, Academic India; Minakshi Singh, Consultant Editor Hindi, Oxford Languages; Sarada Biswas, Consultant Editor for Hindi, Oxford Languages; and Kritika Agarwal, Vivek Tripathi and Poonam Sahay, all Hindi Language Champions, Oxford Languages.
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