Rekhta (website)

Not to be confused with Rekhta.

Rekhta
Type of site
Literature
Available inEnglish, Urdu, Hindi
HeadquartersNoida, India
OwnerRekhta Foundation[1]
Founder(s)Sanjiv Saraf
URLrekhta.org
CommercialNo[2]
RegistrationOptional
Launched11 January 2013; 11 years ago (2013-01-11)
Current statusOnline
Content license
Creative Commons license[3][failed verification]

Rekhta is an Indian 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.

  1. ^ Desk, Sentinel Digital (5 December 2019). "A virtual Urdu library for free- Sentinelassam". www.sentinelassam.com. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Urdu binds people of Subcontinent: Rekhta founder Sanjiv Saraf". 27 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Disclaimer". Rekhta. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  4. ^ "About Rekhta".
  5. ^ "10 Years of Rekhta". Tribune India.
  6. ^ "Rekhta e-Books". Rekhta.org.
  7. ^ "About Site". Rekhta. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  8. ^ Mahmudabad, Ali Khan (13 February 2020). "How did the Indian Muslim identity express itself through poetry before Independence?". Scroll.in. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Book tickets to Shaam-E-Rekhta - World Poetry Day - Bangalore". insider.in. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  10. ^ "Leg up for Urdu literature, 90,000 titles digitised in six years". The New Indian Express. 3 December 2019.
  11. ^ Mohammad Waqas (20 December 2019). "Body of language". India Today.