The Hindi Urdu Flagship was an undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin designed for students who wish to achieve advanced professional proficiency in Hindi and Urdu while majoring in a wide variety of programs, including Business, Communications, and Liberal Arts.
The first and only Hindi Urdu program of its kind, HUF combined an intensive four-year curriculum with individual attention and mentoring by Flagship instructors and native-speaker teaching assistants.
HUF is the first and only undergraduate program of its kind. Watch a brief introduction to HUF to get a better feel for the kind of students and faculty that make the program a truly unique learning experience.
HUF is the Hindi-Urdu branch of The Language Flagship, a national movement to change the way Americans learn languages. Watch this brief introduction to find out more about the Language Flagship.
An innovative series combining drills, conversation, and reading to introduce essential Hindi.
A series of lively, unscripted Hindi-medium conversations about groups of words of related meaning.
Practice your real-world comprehension skills with this library of occasionally hilarious voicemail messages.
A HUF-produced website targeted specifically at teaching Hindi-Urdu for the healthcare profession.
Materials for independent study or to supplement the Complete Hindi/Teach Yourself Hindi series.
A video collection featuring native-speakers modeling common Hindi-Urdu conversational strategies.
Informative & entertaining Hindi teaching presentations with a focus on authentic language sources.
A guided tour of unique moments in Hindi poetry. Featuring interactive discussions of Tulsi, Sur, even Dev Anand!
A free online version of "Hindi and Urdu Since 1800: A Common Reader".
A multimedia introduction to Braj Bhasha, an important ancestor of modern Hindi.
A free, online edition of the classic, standard reader for students of medieval Hindi.
Translations of a Hindi poet by HUF director Rupert Snell and HUF student Aruna Kharod
A practical guide to transliterating Hindi into roman script with consistency and accuracy.
Complete PDF versions of some introductory Hindi textbooks.
HUF spearheads a number of efforts to increase and enhance Hindi Urdu K-12 programs in the US.
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The Hindi Urdu Flagship hosts this fascinating exploration of the development of the Urdu language by the renowned historian of Urdu, Mehr Farooqi.
As part of its festival celebrating the living tradition of song and performance dedicated to the poet Kabir, UT’s Hindi Urdu Flagship hosted a live musical performance by an acclaimed traditional Kabir folk ensemble led by Prahlad Singh Tipanya.
HUF Director Rupert Snell presents his ongoing research on the autobiographical genre in Hindi. The talk features audio recordings of a number of Hindi Urdu Flagship students, teaching assistants, and faculty reading from a wide variety of Hindi autobiographies.
Mir visited the Hindi Urdu Flagship at the University of Texas at Austin to speak to Flagship students about his career in Bollywood production and the changing role of Urdu in Indian cinema.
Frances Pritchett is Professor of Modern Indic Languages in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She teaches courses on Indian civilization, Urdu literature and Islam in South Asia.
Renowned historian Ayesha Jalal discusses her new book, The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide. Jalal’s book offers the first in-depth look in English at the influential Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955).
Ali Asani outlines Salman Ahmad’s personal musical, religious, and political journey and attempted to place Sufi rock in the broader tradition of Muslim devotional literature.
Hanfi discusses some interesting moments in the complicated history of Urdu and Hindi.
Hanfi responds to some preceding faculty and student papers, and gives a few thoughts on Manto himself.
Dr. Snell’s talk discusses socio-linguistic diversity in the context of the close but often vexed relationship between Hindi and Urdu, and shows how even the simplest greetings conversations call for an informed sensitivity to matters of register, honorific level, and religio-cultural background.
Kathryn Hansen presents a talk on Composite Culture and Cosmopolitanism in Manzoor Ehtesham’s Sukha Bargad, Arvind Adiga’s White Tiger, and Slumdog Millionaire.
Kavita Datla’s provides a nuanced take on the political struggles over India’s multiple linguistic traditions.
Michael Shapiro presents a talk entitled, Why Meter Matters: Reading 20th Century Hindi Poetry from the Perspective of Metrical Structure.
Renowned Urdu satirist, Mujtaba Hussain, reads selections from his extensive catalog of Urdu journalism and humour.
Famed Pakistan Radio broadcaster Abul Hasan Naghmi speaks to HUF students about the late Urdu poet Josh Malihabadi.
Eminent Hindi scholar Harish Trivedi conducts a roundtable discussion on issues of translation focusing on Premchand’s ‘Rangbhumi’ and Tulsi’s Kavitavali.
Shabana Azmi, the well-known Indian actress, social activist, and diplomat, spoke to Hindi Urdu Flagship (HUF) students and the UT community in the Texas Union Theater.
During his visit to the Hindi Urdu Flagship, renowned folk-singer Prahlad Singh Tipanya sat down with HUF Director Rupert Snell and HUF Senior Lecturer in Hindi Jishnu Shankar to discuss the life of a modern-day Kabir performer.
Ali Husain Mir sits down with HUF directors, Syed Akbar Hyder and Herman van Olphen, to discuss his background in Urdu and the state of the language in modern India.
The Hindi Urdu Flagship’s Jishnu Shankar sits down with well-known Hindi writer and actress Susham Bedi to discuss her journey into a life of Hindi letters.
Topics covered include the unique history of Bhopal, its importance beyond the gas tragedy, Parnami’s personal experiences in Bhopal, and some of her favorite places in and around the city.
HUF director Rupert Snell speaks with Rajesh Kumar, an experienced Hindi teacher who has taught in a wide variety of settings.
Suhail, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses his childhood growing up in Karachi, Pakistan.
This interview with Maitreyi Pushpa was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Mamta Kalia was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Mannu Bhandari was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Ramanika Gupta was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Raji Seth was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Nasira Sharma was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Mridula Garg was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Chitra Mugdal was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Geetanjali Shree was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Krishna Sobti was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
This interview with Meera Sikri was recorded by Susham Bedi, a well-known Hindi novelist in her own right, as part of an ongoing project to record a variety of Hindi women writers’ thoughts on their own work.
The well-known Hindi novelist and actress Susham Bedi discusses her short story Avsaan.
The well-known Hindi novelist and actress Susham Bedi discusses her short story “Sarak ki laye”.
