00:00I am very proud to be a Maharashtrian, to be a Marathi girl, to be born in Maharashtra.
00:07Today, Marathi has been declared as an abhijat language.
00:12It has been given the status of a classical language by the government of India.
00:20And I think it is such a prestigious thing for all of us as Maharashtrians,
00:25as people of Maharashtra who are born here, who come from here.
00:29And it is nothing but a thing of pride and absolute, absolute honour.
00:35And all I want to say is, I am a proud Maharashtrian, I am a proud Maratha and a proud Indian.
00:44I think it is amazing that whenever any regional language is given a status,
00:49where the literature, the culture is going to be shared with a lot of other people,
00:55of other castes and of other religions and of other languages.
00:59I think it is nothing but an absolute honour.
01:03And of course, there is so much of literature and there is so much of material in Marathi
01:10that I feel that even a birth will be less if you have to read or write or listen about a language,
01:16its literature, its culture.
01:22I think, somewhere or the other, the Marathi language has always made its existence,
01:31and it will continue to make its existence, very strong.
01:36And somewhere or the other, whether it is the younger generation, the older generation,
01:40this generation, they are only and only going to benefit from knowing this language,
01:45from understanding this language.
01:47And it is amazing that this honour has just added another feather to what Marathi language is,
01:55to what Maharashtrians are and what Marathi literature is.
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