21.02.2026
International Online Poetry Festival «International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)» was held at the RSUH February 21, 2026
February 21, 2026
Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)
International Online Poetry Festival «International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)» was jointly organized with various Russian and Indian universities:
Russian Centre for Science and Culture (Mumbai, India)
Banasthali Vidyapith (Rajasthan, India)
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU Baroda) Samrat Vikramaditya Vidyapith (Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India) Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith University (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Moscow State Law University named after O. E. Kutafin
More than 60 students from six universities in Russia and India enthusiastically recited poems in their native languages: Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, Belarusian, Thai, French, Indonesian, Spanish, Lingala (spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo), Bhojpuri (Eastern Indo-Aryan), Malayalam, and Dutch.
Professor Kandarpa Das, VC of the Girijananda Chowdhury University delivered the welcoming address. He said this is his sixth time speaking at the RSUH event this year and he is delighted that the number of languages represented is increasing each year.
This year, a new Indian university – Banasthali Vidyapith (Rajasthan) joined the Mother Language Day celebrations. Fifteen students from the Faculty of Humanities recited poetry in Hindi, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, and English:
1. Vedanshi Sharma
2. Anupriya Rajendran
3. Bhawna Malan
4. Rishika Tomar
5. Alka Kumari
6. Aditi Tripathi
7. Falak Gambhir
8. Asmi Mishra
9. Nandini Khandelwal
10. Drishti Chaudhary
11.Prityushika Bisht
12. Kritika Painuly
13. Prerika Gupta.
14.Hrishika Tomar
15.Ashmi.
Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith University (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Teacher: Dr. Neeraj Dhankar, HOD of the Department of English & Foreign languages
Students:
1. Divya Yadav (Class. Certificate). Recitation a poem written by Gul'bakhar Saifi “आत्मविश्वास” in Hindi.
2. Kamana Prajapati (Class. Certificate). Recitation a poem written by Nayab Midkha “मुस्कुराओ” in Hindi.
3. Sundari Maurya (Class Advance diploma). Recitation a poem written by Harivansharaay Bachchan “आत्मपरिचय” in Hindi.
4. Priyanshi Mishra (BA 1st year). Recitation a poem “Nij Bhasa Unnati Ahae” in Hindi.
5. Priyanshi Yadav (BA 3rd year). Recitation a poem “Hamari Bhasa Hamari Saans” in Bhojpuri.
6. Anurag Yadav (Certificate in Russian). Recitation a poem “Mai Kashi hun” in Hindi.
7. Nidhi Gupta. (MA 4th semester). Recitation a poem “Nar ho, na nirash karo mann ko” in Hindi.
8. Kayshiki Prajapati. (MA 4th semester). Recitation a poem “Man keh ek kahani” in Hindi.
9. Ayushi Pandey. (MA 4th semester). Recitation a poem “Prem ka paryay Kashi” in Hindi.
10. Vartika Tripathi. (MA 4th semester). Recitation a poem “Jo bit gai” in Hindi.
11. Sakshi Tripathi. (MA 4th semester). Recitation a poem “Koi arth nahin” in Hindi.
12. Chaya Sharma. (MA 4th semester). Recitation a poem “Man” in Hindi.
13. Nikhil Singh Rajput. (MA 4th semester). Recitation a poem “Krishna ki chetaavani” in Hindi.
14. Sapna Kumari Singh. Recitation a poem - किससे कहूं ? in Hindi.
15. Suraj Kumar Patel. Recitation a poem – पहचान in Hindi.
16. Swatu Gupta. Recitation a poem in Hindi.
17. Arti Madanwal. Recitation a poem in Hindi.
Samrat Vikramaditya Vidyapith (Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
Department of English and foreign languages
Teacher: Ms. Nisha Chaurasia, a Russian language teacher of the Department of Foreign Languages
Students;
Ronald Franklin.
Shorya Mohan.
Pratik Shreevas .
Shashank.
Alfaiz. Harsh Kadam.
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU Baroda).
Teacher: Dr. Kaushal Kishore
Student:
Ujjawal Kumar Thakur. Recitation a poem in Russian.
Russian State University for the Humanities
Department of International Cooperation, RSUH
Foreign Students
Supervisor: Natalia Pakhomova, Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation
1. Chikulaeva Kristina Leonidovna (Republic of Belarus). Poem by Pavlyuk Trus "Snowflakes are Falling..." (Pavlyuk Trus "Snowflakes are Falling") in Belarusian.
2. Klai Maram (Tunisia). Poem by Konstantin Simonov "Wait for Me" in Arabic.
3. Tangprasitthipkhab Pravit (Thailand). Poem by Boyarin Krasnoslov "Phu" ("The Heart of Man") in Thai.
4. Vo Ngoc Bao Quyen (Vietnam). Poem by Ho Chi Minh "Landscape of Pakbo" in Vietnamese.
5. Ngo Anh Tho (Vietnam). Poem by Thanh Hai "Little Spring" in Vietnamese.
6. Le Thi Huong (Vietnam). Ho Xuan Huong's poem "Confession" in Vietnamese.
7. Giulia Godano (Italy). Eugenio Montale's poem "Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale" in Italian.
8. Ivonne del Carmen Miranda Tapia (Nicaragua). A 1959 poem by Nicaraguan writer Edwin Castro dedicated to national hero Augusto S. Sandino; February 21 marks the 92nd anniversary of his death.
9. Camila Miranda Corvalán (Chile). Gabriela Mistral's poem "Give Me Your Hand" in Spanish.
International Russian-Brazilian Center
Presentation of Dr. Liudmila Baturina. Recitation of a poem in Portugal.
Institute of Linguistics
Teacher: Pushkova Maria Nikolaevna, Director of the Center for the Study of the Benelux Countries;
2nd year students:
1. Katerina De Rijk. The poem is in Dutch.
2. Alina Aleksandrovna Smolkina. The poem is in Dutch.
3. Ekaterina Romanovna Fedorova. The poem is in Dutch.
Department of Oriental Languages,
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Teacher: Dr. Liudmila Fedorova, Dr. Indira Gazieva
Students:
Elena Shah, 3rd year student. The poem is in Hindi.
Alina Zvyagintseva, 3rd year student. The poem in Hindi.
Margarita Ermalyuk, 3rd year student. The poem in Russian.
Anastasia Shitikova, 3rd year student. The poem in Russian.
Anastasia Burda, 3rd year student. The poem in Russian.
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