Samrup Rachna

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Samrup Rachna is a 60 work calligraphic art collection of apni boli, a fusion of Hindi-Urdu, created by Pakistani Syed Mohammed Anwer.^[1][2]

The name comes from the Sanskrit words Samrup (सामरुप) (سامروپ), meaning "congruence" or similar, and Rachna (रचना) (رچنا) meaning "creative work or design".^[3] In linguistics, languages which are written in two different scripts are called Synchronic digraphia. Hindustani is one such language.^[4]

The calligraphy uses two different scripts of Devanagari (northern brahmic) and Nastaliq (perso-arabic) or Hindi-Urdu which Anwer calls apni boli. Anwer had learned the Devanagari script from his mother who had told him that only the scripts of Hindi and Urdu were different, but the language was the same.^[5] He states that the idea of fusing the two scripts came to him one day as he was doodling in his office, which then emerged as patterns and eventually he started painting them.^[5]

The calligraphy forms a picture of the word when written.^[1] For example, the Hindustani word surahi (meaning "ewer" or "pitcher" in English) is written in apni boli calligraphy in a way that a picture of an ewer is also formed.^[6][7]

The purpose of the artwork is to illustrate that language does not have a religion.^[8]

The 60 work collection was launched as a book in 2016 called Samrup Rachna – Calligraphic Expression of Apni Boli [Hindi-Urdu] - at the Pakistan Mother Languages Literature Festival at the National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage.^[9]