people: shamim-hanfi
Shamim Hanfi: Manto
Hanfi responds to some preceding faculty and student papers, and gives a few thoughts on Manto himself.
Shamim Hanfi: Urdu-Hindi
Hanfi discusses some interesting moments in the complicated history of Urdu and Hindi.
Shamim Hanfi – On Urdu and Hindi
India’s leading Urdu literary critic, Shamim Hanfi, provides a tour of some key moments in the history of modern Hindi and Urdu.
HUF hosts national workshop on Hindi-Urdu pedagogy
The Hindi Urdu Flagship recently convened a workshop for university and K-12 teachers of Hindi and Urdu. The workshop featured some informal lectures on pedagogical strategies from HUF’s teaching faculty, a roundtable discussion on pressing issues in the Hindi-Urdu classroom, and a wonderful guest lecture by Prof. Shamim Hanfi on some highlights in the tangled modern history of Hindi and Urdu.
