Love for Hindi led her to be a topper in BA
Ten years after she turned out to be a graduate in BSC (Mathematics), Vandana Tiwari got her graduate degree again in 2017.
This time she got it for her Bachelor of Arts degree in Hindi. The 35-year-old decided to be a graduate in Hindi just for the sheer love of the language. “I am in love with Hindi. I write poetries, stories in the language. I simply love the language and hence decided to get a degree in it,” said the native of Uttar Pradesh who first came to Gujarat after her marriage.
Tiwari found support not only from her husband, a computer hardware engineering but also from her own parents. “My father is a farmer and my mother is illiterate yet they encouraged me to study further,” said Tiwari.
Tiwari said she had all throughout studied in Hindi medium. “But when I came to Gujarat, I had the option of choosing to do something either in Gujarati or English. That is why I chose BSC (mathematics) because that would mean the language would not be much of a problems. At that time I did not have the option of doing a bachelor in Hindi,” said Tiwari.
She now plans to do an MA …read more
