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Type of site | Literature |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, Urdu, Hindi |
| Owner | Rekhta Foundation[1] |
| Founder(s) | Sanjiv Saraf |
| URL | rekhta |
| Commercial | No[2] |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 11 January 2013 |
| Current status | Online |
Content license | Creative Commons license[3][failed verification] |
Rekhta is an Urdu literary web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature.[4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years.[5] These books primarily consist of Urdu, Hindi and Persian literature and encompass a wide range of genres, including biographies of poets, Urdu poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.[6] The collection originates from public and research libraries in the Indian subcontinent. It serves content in multiple scripts such as Devanagari, Roman and, primarily, Nastaliq.[7] It hosts books from centuries earlier and is recognized as the largest website in the world for the preservation of Urdu literature.[8][9]
The site has digitalized more than 200,000 e-books with thirty-two million pages, which are categorically classified into different sections such as diaries, children's literature, poetries, banned books, and translations, involving Urdu poetry.[10] It is also credited for preserving 7000 biographies of poets (worldwide), 70,000 ghazals, 28,000 couplets, 12,000 nazms, 6,836 literary videos, 2,127 audio files, 140,000 e-books[11] manuscripts and pop magazines.
- ^ Desk, Sentinel Digital (5 December 2019). "A virtual Urdu library for free- Sentinelassam". www.sentinelassam.com.
- ^ "Urdu binds people of Subcontinent: Rekhta founder Sanjiv Saraf". 27 November 2018.
- ^ "Disclaimer". Rekhta. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ "About Rekhta".
- ^ "10 Years of Rekhta". Tribune India.
- ^ "Rekhta e-Books". Rekhta.org.
- ^ "About Site". Rekhta. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ Mahmudabad, Ali Khan (13 February 2020). "How did the Indian Muslim identity express itself through poetry before Independence?". Scroll.in. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ "Book tickets to Shaam-E-Rekhta - World Poetry Day - Bangalore". insider.in. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ "Leg up for Urdu literature, 90,000 titles digitised in six years". The New Indian Express.
- ^ Mohammad Waqas (20 December 2019). "Body of language". India Today.
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