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PARAMARIBO, SURINAM, April 29, 2003: The World Hindi Conference is to be held in Paramaribo, Surinam, June 5-9, 2003. Five hundred scholars and experts are expected to attend the conference in the South American country, which has a Hindi-speaking population of more than 150,000, around 30 percent of its total population. The decision to hold the conference in Surinam, which won in a close contest over Holland, its former colonial master, was taken on the urging of the Indian diaspora based there, the descendants of 19th century migrants.

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