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India and Hindi

General India Information:

• Ange's lessons learned page
• Wikipedia:  India
• US State Department: Background Notes
• India Post Report
• More India info on our links page.

Our India Reading List:

• Expert Expatriate: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad-Moving, Living, Thriving:  Melissa Brayer Hess and Patricia Linderman
• Culture Shock India!  A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette:  Gitanjali Kolanad
• Lonely Planet India
• India: Emerging Power:  Stephen Cohen
• India Unbound:  From Independence to the Global Information Age:  Gurcharan Das
• A New History of India:  Stanley Wolpert
• Others coming soon...

Online Indian News Sources

• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
• http://www.hindu.com/
• IndiaPress - Misc Indian News Sources

Hindi

Hindi Basics:

• Hindi:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi

• Devanagari Script:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/devanagari.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari

• Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language
• Akhlesh's Homepage of Preschool Hindi - a great site for kids and new beginners

Hindi Script Tutor Online:

• http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm - A great interactive script/pronunciation tutorial for beginners

University of Pennsylvania links:

• Hindi alphabet with audio clips - http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/hindi/alphabet/ 
• Misc audio files - http://lrrc3.sas.upenn.edu/hindi/
• Misc Grammar - http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Hindi/hindi.html

Hindi Reading Resources:

• New India (Nav Bharat) Times newspaper -  http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/ 
• Jagran online newspaper -  http://www.jagran.com/default.aspx

Hindi Listening Resources:

• Voice of America Hindi - http://www.voanews.com/hindi/
• BBC Hindi - http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/programmes/

Interactive Multimedia Learning:

• LANGNET - http://www.jlumall.com/
  (This is a great online learning site, but it requires an organizational account to register because LangNet is available only to government agencies and select academic institutions. To request an account, talk to your training provider or email Langnet web support.)