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An undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin designed for students who wish to achieve advanced professional proficiency in Hindi and Urdu.

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Shamim Hanfi – On Urdu and Hindi

As part of a week-long celebration of the centenary of Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto, The Hindi Urdu Flagship at the University of Texas at Austin hosted a series of lectures by the renowned Urdu critic and historian, Shamim Hanfi. In this informal talk, Hanfi discusses some interesting moments in the complicated history of Urdu and Hindi. Hanfi is widely regarding as a leading Urdu literary critic in contemporary India. He is Professor Emeritus of Urdu Studies at Jamia Milia Islamia University...

May 25, 2012

Mehr Farooqi – The Development of Urdu

The Hindi Urdu Flagship hosts this fascinating exploration of Quranic Exegesis and the development of Urdu by the renowned historian, Mehr Farooqi. Farooqi is Assistant Professor of Urdu at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. “The Secret of Letters: Chronograms in Urdu Literary Culture,” which appeared in Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, is her most recent publication. She is currently translating a voluminous selection of women’s writings in Urdu, spanning the las...

Nov 18, 2011

Mujtaba Hussain – Urdu Satire

Renowned Urdu satirist, Mujtaba Hussain, reads selections from his extensive catalog of Urdu journalism and humor to an audience composed of Hindi Urdu Flagship students and the wider South Asian studies community at UT Austin. The recording should be wonderful listening comprehension practice for intermediate to advanced students of Urdu and/or Hindi. Mujtaba Hussain is a prolific and critically acclaimed Urdu journalist and creative writer. Over the past forty years he has produced fifteen vol...

Nov 11, 2011

Rupert Snell – Autobiography is Another Story: “Lives” in Hindi

In this fascinating talk, Hindi Urdu Flagship Director, Rupert Snell, presents his recent work on the diverse genre of autobiographical writing in Hindi. The talk, entitled Autobiography is Another Story: “Lives” in Hindi, features audio recordings of a number of Hindi Urdu Flagship students and faculty reading from a wide variety of Hindi autobiographies. According to Snell, his research “looks at several kinds of autobiographical writing in Hindi – revisiting a genre in which I have previously...

May 30, 2011

Ali Asani – From Qawwali to Sufi Rock: Contemporary Expressions of Muslim Devotional Literature

Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and cultures at Harvard University describes the modern Sufi rock phenomenon epitomized by Salman Ahmad and his band Junoon. Asani outlines Ahmad’s personal musical, religious, and political journey and attempted to place Sufi rock in the broader tradition of Muslim devotional literature. A native of Kenya, Asani received both his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in the comparative study of religion and his Ph.D. in Near Eastern langua...

May 23, 2011

Prahlad Singh Tipanya – Kabir, Part 2

As part of its festival celebrating the living tradition of song and performance dedicated to the poet Kabir, HUF hosts a live musical performance by an acclaimed traditional Kabir folk ensemble led by Prahlad Singh Tipanya. Tipanya sings and plays the tambura, a five-stringed plucked and strummed instrument originally from Rajasthan, and kartal a wood and metal instrument consisting of two pieces struck together to make a tambourine-like sound, played with the fingers of the left hand. His youn...

May 17, 2011

Prahlad Singh Tipanya – Kabir, Part 1

May 16, 2011

Harish Trivedi – A Translation Roundtable, Part 2: Tulsidas and a mystery

As part of his visit to the Hindi Urdu Flagship, eminent Hindi scholar Harish Trivedi conducts a roundtable discussion on issues of Hindi-Urdu translation with a diverse set of students and faculty. This second half of the discussion focuses on a stanza from the Kavitavali of Tulsidas and a mystery piece provided by Trivedi. The first half (featured in a separate podcast episode) focused on Premchand’s Rangbhumi. The passages under discussion are downloadable as a PDF compilation at https://hind...

May 10, 2011

Harish Trivedi – A Translation Roundtable, Part 1: Premchand’s Rangbhumi

As part of his visit to the Hindi Urdu Flagship, eminent Hindi scholar Harish Trivedi conducts a roundtable discussion on issues of Hindi-Urdu translation with a diverse set of students and faculty. This first half of the discussion focuses on the opening paragraphs of Premchand’s Rangbhumi. The second half (featured in a separate podcast episode) shifts the discussion to Braj Bhasha (Tulsidas) and a ‘mystery piece’ provided by Trivedi. The passages under discussion are downloadable as a PDF com...

May 09, 2011

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