Resources

Here’s an ongoing list of resources. I’ll keep adding to it as time goes on, and if you have suggestions for things to add, please feel free to share! Also, please let me know if any links below are broken.

Digital Repositories

Here are some repositories of literary texts.

• Rekhta.org
• Hindwi.org
• Kavitakosh.org
• Gadyakosh.org

Here are some sources for audio recordings of literature.

• Adbi Duniya
• Rani Ketki

Learning Hindi-Urdu

Here are some resources I’m aware of that might be useful for improving your knowledge of Urdu-Hindi. If you know of other good ones, please share so that I can add it to this list!

• Snell, Teach Yourself Hindi
• Shackle and Snell, Hindi and Urdu since 1800: A Common Reader
• Bruce, Urdu Vocabulary: A Workbook for Intermediate and Advanced Students
• Zakir, Lessons in Urdu Script
• Duolingo’s Hindi Course
• Frances Pritchett’s list, and another

Here are some useful online dictionaries:

• Bilingual: Platts, Rekhta Dictionary
• Monolingual (Nagari): शब्दसागर
• Monolingual (Urdu): اردو لغت
• Thesaurus (Nagari): शब्दतंत्र

Transliteration

• Google Translate provides a Roman transliteration if you input Hindi text in Nagari.
• Ashtanga Yoga’s transltieration tool will transliterate between a number of Indic scripts (Nagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, …) as well as some Roman transliteration schemes.

Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (फ़ैज़ अहमद फ़ैज़ · فیض احمد فیض) was a leading voice of the Progressive Writers’s Movement, and his powerful poetry continues to inspire progressives and revolutionaries in South Asia and around the world today.

• Biography on Wikipedia
• Faiz’s poetry on Rekhta.org
• Victor G. Kiernan’s translations
• Faiz reciting his own poetry

Gālib

• A Desertful of Roses

Ismat Chugtāī

• List of resources by Frances Pritchett

Mīrājī

• Geeta Patel, Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings (2002).
• Kulliyat-e-Mīrājī