1st Edition
Reading Urdu: Novice to Intermediate
1 A little bit about me
2 At the station
3 Savory Mutton Diner
4 Hotel review
5 Saniya’s family
6 My class
7 Exercise with me
8 The Green Champion of Sukhan Park
9 Where’s my phone?
10 The Vegetable King
11 Raziya’s letter
12 Is there a hotel room available?
13 An education for Danish
14 Rickshaw driver
15 Room for rent
16 I’m sick
17 The extraordinary story of a mango
18 A wedding invitation / Come to my wedding
19 Be my Valentine, Grandpa
20 A gift on Eid
21 A maid’s work
22 Naaz in her village
23 Offering up thanks
24 Taxi driver
25 Strangers on a train
26 Ask me anything
27 In the market
28 Palak-paneer
29 Happy anniversary
30 An unlucky tree
31 At the doctor’s office
32 A love story
33 Grandfather and the jinnat
34 Shopping with Jameela
35 Taj Mahal
36 Coming to America
37 A celebration of mangoes and poetry
38 I don’t want a car
39 He’s not my friend anymore
40 Here comes the groom
Biography
Peter Knapczyk is Assistant Professor of Hindi-Urdu at Wake Forest University, USA. He holds a PhD in Asian cultures and languages from the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Kusum Knapczyk is Senior Lecturer of Hindi in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, USA. She holds a PhD in Hindi literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
Timsal Masud is a writer, translator, and Hindi-Urdu textbook author. He holds a PhD in Urdu literature from Lucknow University and teaches at Columbia University, USA.
