Mumbai, India
Departmental Information - Hindi
FACULTY :
Senior College : Dr.(Mrs.) Nirmala Tripathi , MA , PhD - Head of the Department
Dr. (Mrs.) Sumanika Sethi , MA , MPhil & Ph. D
Ms U.Tiwari, MA
Junior College : Ms. R. Yadav MA, BEd.
Ms. S Gupta MA, BEd.
 
ABOUT THE SUBJECT :

The department has two main streams - Hindi Language (compulsory) and Hindi Literature, and offers all nine papers in Hindi literature. The curriculum is most comprehensive, encompassing classic and modern, almost all the literary genres and connecting literature to philosophical ideologies, political discourses, sociological theories etc. History of literature and language is also taught, and Hindi grammar is studied in the wider context of linguistics. Apart from pure literature, the paper of functional Hindi equips the student with writing skills for mass media, and thus helping them to explore new carrier openings in the expanding media.
 
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT :

The department was started in1959 and the student's strength at the entry point for Hindi Literature is 35 to 40 students. Faculty members are involved in the cultural component of EXAP and have guided some of the projects on Indian Dances, Architecture, Indian Mythology and Comparative Study of the authors of Indian and western origin. T Y BA applied component projects are given for paper VI & IX. In paper VI projects are based on modern fiction, while in paper IX literary trends, movements, authors, discourses are assigned to the students. The department had also participated in a seminar on The Theatre of the Absurd in collaboration with English & French Department, and presented the Hindi segment as Hindi ke Visangatimoolak Naatak.
Efforts are made to acquaint the students of literary traditions of other languages and cultures i.e. French.
 
(L to R) Ms. U. Tiwari, Dr. (Ms) N. Tripathi, Dr. (Ms) S. Sethi, Ms. R. Yadav, Ms S. Gupta
 
ABOUT THE FACULTY :
Dr. (Mrs.) Nirmala Tripathi ( Head of theDepartment)
She has worked on modern Hindi nibandh with special reference to Vidya Niwas Mishra who belonging to the school of Hazari Prasad Dwivedi has created a new genre of lalit nibandh which incorporates culture, mythology and contemporary ethos and weaves them altogether with poetic emotionality.
 

Dr. (Mrs.) Sumanika Sethi

Her specialization is aesthetics which deals with literature as an art form and interprets it in the wider context of other art forms, thus making the study inter-disciplinary. She has worked on the modern classic poem andhere mein.

Further she has researched on Yakshi icons excavated from Sanghol, Punjab and compared these sculptures with literary traditions. She has just completed her research on Kanheri Caves (Mumbai) as a minor research project by UGC.
 
COURSES :
PAPER I Modern Hindi fiction
PAPER II Hindi Poetry & Drama
PAPER III Functional Hindi (writing for advertisements, dialogue writing, translation, journalism, writing for radio, television & press.)
PAPER IV History of Hindi Literature
PAPER V Post-independence Hindi Literature
PAPER VI Social Perspective of Modern Literature. (Reference: Hindi novel- rural & urban)
PAPER VII Literary Criticism. (Prosody & rhetoric)
PAPER VIII Linguistics, Hindi Language & Hindi Grammar
PAPER IX Ideological background of modern Hindi Literature
 
RESEARCH :
Students :

EXAP PROJECT
Faculty members are involved in the cultural component of EXAP and have guided some of the projects on Indian Dances, Architecture, Indian Mythology and Comparative Study of the authors of Indian and western origin.

OTHER PROJECTS
TYBA applied component projects in paper VI & IX are based on modern Hindi fiction and authors, literary trends & movements and ideologies.

Some projects have been done novels like shalmali (Nasira Sharma), kathgulab (Mridula Garg), daar se bichhuri (Krishna Sobti), aye larki (Krishna Sobti), Mohandas (Uday Prakash), sarju ke naam (Jaivanti Dimri), tata professor (Manohar Shayam Joshi), ve din (Nirmal Verma) etc.

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Pant ka Kavya, Hindi ke Aanchalik Upanayaas, Hindi ke Ekanki Naatak, Nukkar Naatak etc.

ALUMNAE :

Electronic Media :
Priyanka Sinha (CNBC Awaz)
Seema Tiwari ( Sahara TV)

Print Media :
Sangita Singh

Travel & Tourism :
Unaiza Ansari
Shazia Mukri (Jet Airways)
Fatima Alim
Trannum Khan

Banking :
Shweta (HDFC Bank)
Vandna Jha (HDFC Bank)

Entrepreneurship :
Neepa (Cosmetology & Aroma Therapy)
Sarika (Export-Import business)

Education :
Many of our students took up higher studies in Hindi literature. To name a few:
Nuzhat (Stood First in M.A., Mumbai University )
Rehnuma (after completing B. Ed. teaching in a school)

Sister Anjana Sofi is warden of Sophia Polytechnic & Dr. (Mrs.) Nirmala Tripathi, is Head of Hindi Department for more than a decade.

 
CAREER OPTIONS :


Teaching :
Expertise in Hindi Language & Literature can lead you to teaching in schools, colleges, university or private tuitions or even teaching foreign students privately or through consulates.

Job Prospects vary from secretarial jobs to executives, public relations as well as for translation & interpreter's jobs.

Translators are employed with industries, publishing houses, research and government organizations such as Ministry of External Affairs and Embassies. Opportunities for translators are also available in the courts of various states.

Hindi Officers are posted in every government department and Public Sector organizations as per the policy of Government of India to implement Official Language.

Media :
Language experts and content writers get job opportunities in advertising agencies, radio, television, films and print media or free lancing. There is a paper in SYBA which provides expertise in feature writing, slogan & jingle writing, dialogue and script writing etc. thus opening careers for creative minded students.

All other jobs like travel & tourism sector, hotel industry, exhibition & fairs, airlines offices, radio stations, trade organizations and teaching are open to our students.

JUNIOR COLLEGE
ABOUT THE SUBJECT

The course in Hindi language literature is quite comprehensive. Standard XI and XII have prescribed books on prose, poetry, rapid reading and grammar. In Std. XI students are expoed to the writings of Premchand, Jaishankar Prasad, Benipuri, Mahairpa Singh, Malti Joshi, Tulsi, Raskhan, Vrinda, Hirala, Bachchan, Trilocahana and many more.

For Std. XII, the prose includes stories, essays, satires, autobiographies, and glimpses into the works of great Hindi writers such as Premchand, Yashpal, Prabhakar, Maitreyee Pushpa, etc. The poetry section focuses on the medieval and modern poets. These include names like Kabir, Surdas, Meerabai, Rahim, Maithilisharan Gupta, Narendra Sharma, Neeraja, Rajesh Joshi, etc. Thr rapid reading section includes writings of Mahadevi Verma, Devendra Satyarthi, etc. This section includes memoirs and character sketches which are considered landmarks in the form of prose.

To enhance grammar skills, students are given a sound knowledge of grammatical concepts such as tense, syntax, idioms, and are provided with varied forms of writing skills which have practical application.

There is also an oral component which includes listening comprehension, conversation, reading and dictation. There is a ‘tutorial’ system in place which caters to learners in small numbers, with the aim of individualized instruction and guidance.
 
THE FACULTY
 
Ms. R. Yadav MA. BEd.
Her hobbies are reading, writing and craft and her special interest include modern Hindi literature, especially stories and novels.
 
Ms. S. Gupta MA, BEd.
She is fond of reading and has special interest in modern Hindi literature especially prose and poetry
 
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