Urdu Poetry Resources

 

Learning Urdu

Urdu can be learnt from books, tapes and CDs, available at ukindia, indiaclub, multilingualbooks, arthur lynn, languageresourcesonline and aramedia.

Free lessons and material are at phrasebase, learningurdu, 43things and learningresourcescentre.

Other works, dictionaries, etc. can be ordered through abebooks and alibris.

Urdu-English-Urdu online dictionaries are at: urduword, urdupoetry, word2word, urduseek and kamous.

Some useful language exchanges: friends abroad, xlingo, mylanguage exchange, polyglot learn language, and lingozone.

Urdu Poetry

Indian history and culture is covered by internet indian history sourcebook and itihaas.

Urdu poetry can be found on these sites: Mir, Nazir, Atish, Daud, Mir, Insha, Bahadur Shah, and Zauq.

For Urdu anthologies try urdupoetry and eurdubazaar.

Useful books on Ghalib and Urdu poetry include A. Ali's An Anthology of Urdu Poetry (1992), the Ghazal of Ghalib entry in A. Ahad's Encyclopedia of Islam (1971), D. Matthew and C. Shackle's An Anthology of Classical Urdu Love Lyrics (1972) and M. Memon's Studies in the Urdu Ghazal and Prose Fiction (1979).

Ghalib

Examples of Ghalib's poetry can be found at mirza ghalib, archives of urdu poetry, pakdata, and urdumedia.

 

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