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Rekhta is a non-profit organisation that preserves and promotes Urdu literature through its online portal and various initiatives. It has digitized over 200,000 books, hosted literary events and festivals, and launched e-learning and research projects.
Learn about the origins, development and features of Urdu literature, written in the Urdu language. Explore the religious, Deccani and Mughal periods, the forms and figures of Urdu poetry and prose, and the literary prizes and institutions.
This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Learn about the history, script and letters of the Urdu alphabet, a modification of the Persian alphabet derived from the Arabic script. See examples of Nastaʿlīq, the dominant style of Urdu calligraphy, and compare it with other abjad scripts.
Amir Khusrau, a 13th-century Urdu poet.. Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms.Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan.
Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.
Pakistani literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947, emerging out of literary traditions of the South Asia. [1] The shared tradition of Urdu literature and English literature of British India was inherited by
A comprehensive list of Urdu-language poets from the 13th to the 20th century, with their pen names, eras and works. Includes famous poets such as Amir Khusro, Mirza Ghalib, Allama Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz.