On August 21, Maxim Demchenko, Associate Professor of the MSLU Department of Oriental Languages visited Delhi University, where he delivered a special lecture in Hindi on the role of India and Indian culture in the modern world.
The meeting with teachers and students took place at the Sanskrit Department of Hindu College, a faculty that ranked first in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking of Indian universities this year. The head of the Sanskrit Department, Prof. Vijay Garg, addressed the audience with a welcoming speech, and the distinguished guest of the event was the renowned Sanskrit scholar, Prof. Daya Shankar Tiwari.
Among other things, M. Demchenko shared with the audience a story about the advancement of MSLU students studying Hindi - a complex, but beautiful, rich and promising language in the modern world. "Hindi is becoming the language of international communication, because it is already used in one way or another by about a billion people worldwide," he noted.