A Journal of
          Mahatma Gandhi
          Antarrashtriya
          Hindi Vishwavidyalaya
                            LANGUAGE
                            DISCOURSE
                            WRITING
                                Volume 5
                              April-June 2011
                                 Editor
                             Mamta Kalia
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                               Published by
                  Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University
                 Hindi : Language, Discourse, Writing
                 A Quarterly Journal of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya
                 Hindi Vishwavidyalaya
                 Volume 5 Number 2 April-June 2011
                 R.N.I. No. DELENG 11726/29/1/99-Tc
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                                           LANGUAGE
                                           DISCOURSE
                                           WRITING
                                              April-June 2011
                   Contents
                   Heritage
                   Literature and Society                Jainendra Kumar                 7
                   On the Bagmati Bank                   Acharya Janki Vallabh Shastri  13
                   Satire
                   Bholaram Ka Jeev                      Harishankar Parsai             19
                   Non-Fiction
                   Woh Jo Yatharth Tha                   Akhilesh                       25
                   Poetry
                   Four Poems                            Savita Singh                   37
                   Two Poems                             Priyadarshan                   41
                   Three Poems                           Hare Prakash Upadhyay          46
                   At the age of twenty-eight            Nishant                        53
                   Discourse
                   Meeting Points of Two Cultures          Yordanka Boyanova            59
                   Kedarnath Agrawal as a Poet             Ashok Tripathi               67
                   Cultural Encounter and Synthesis:
                     The Concept of Indian Feminism        K.M. Malathy                 82
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                      Memoir
                      My Reminiscences of Premchand          Shivpujan Sahay              87
                      Language
                      The Future of Hindi                    Suniti Km. Chaturjya         96
                      Bhojpuri and Surinami                  Badri Narayan              100
                      Hungarian Indology: Past and Present   Vijayasati                 106
                      Short story
                      Gadal                                  Rangey Raghav               113
                      Convoy                                 Padma Sachdev               128
                      The Laser Show                         Harjendra Chaudhary        140
                      Anchal                                 Subhash Sharma              151
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