This paper investigates how prosodic elements such as prominences and prosodic boundaries in Hindi are perceived. We approach this using data from three sources: (i) native speakers of Hindi without any linguistic expertise (ii) a linguistically trained expert in Hindi prosody and finally, (iii) automatic classifiers trained on English for prominence and boundary detection. We use speech from a corpus of Hindi narrative speech for our experiments. Our results indicate that non-expert transcribers do not have a consistent notion of prosodic prominences. However, they show considerable agreement regarding the placement of prosodic boundaries. Also, relative to the non-expert transcribers, there is higher agreement between the expert transcriber and the automatically derived labels for prominence (and prosodic boundaries); this suggests the possibility of using classifiers for automatic prediction of these prosodic events in Hindi.