The Rekhta Foundation Ecosystem
Rekhta Foundation works across digital archives, dictionaries, learning platforms, festivals, cultural experiences, research tools, and audio-visual storytelling to keep Indian languages accessible, active, and culturally alive. What began with Urdu has grown into a wider ecosystem for Hindi, Sufi and Bhakti traditions, Rajasthani, Gujarati, and the shared Hindustani cultural landscape.
DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Rekhta.org
Rekhta.org, our flagship platform, is the world’s most comprehensive digital destinations for Urdu language and literature. Launched in 2013, it was built to solve a clear problem: much of Urdu’s literary wealth was scattered across ageing books, private collections, and inaccessible archives. We’ve digitized over 3,25,000 books including more than 54 million preserved pages across 35 libraries. These texts are available in Urdu, Devanagari, and Roman to more than 30 million monthly Rekhta users.
Sufinama.org
Our dedicated platform for the literary, philosophical, and cultural legacy of Bhakti & Sufi traditions was launched in 2018. It brings together poetry, prose, spiritual discourse, music, performance, rare texts featuring 2,785 Sufi-saint poets & 10,000 rare books, digitized across nine traditional Khanqahs. Sufinama reaches users in 209 countries & preserves the lived practice of Sufism through Urs documentation, essays on mysticism, introductions to saints, and more than 1,000 videos.
Hindwi.org
Hindwi, founded in 2020, brings Hindi literature into a structured, searchable, and accessible space, shaped by the editorial rigour that defined Rekhta’s work with Urdu. The platform has more than 10,000 literary works of over 500 entities across poetry, short stories, essays, and prose. Content is organized by chhand-based forms, literary periods, themes, and curated selections, giving both new readers and serious students clear points of entry. Hindwi dictionary, launched in 2022, has over 8.61 lakh words across nine regional dialects. With over 1 million website users, an active Instagram community, Campus Kavita’s student events and Bela’s (blog) recognised editorial presence in literary circles, it is strengthening Hindi’s digital public life.
Anjas.org
Anjas Rajasthani is the Foundation’s digital initiative & platform for the language, literature, and cultural memory of Rajasthan. Established in 2022, it brings manuscripts, regional publications, folk traditions, and classical works from the 13th to 19th centuries into a structured digital archive. Its literary corpus includes 2,300+ poets and 11,000+ compositions across poems, dohas, songs, ghazals, and other forms. Beyond literature, Anjas documents folk arts, performances, cultural fairs, oral histories, and the voices of artists and communities.
Rekhta Gujarati.org
Rekhta Gujarati was launched in 2024 to bring Gujarati poetry, Bhakti literature, folk traditions, children’s literature, books, audio, video, and dictionary support into one accessible digital space. The platform features 950+ poets and 6,900+ pieces of content, including Loksahitya and Baalsahitya. Its archive is supported by 5,100+ books already available online, drawn from a larger digitization effort covering 27,000+ texts. Partnerships with libraries such as A.S. Dahi Lakshmi Library in Nadiyad and Bho.Je. Vidyabhawan Library in Ahmedabad and a growing trilingual Gujarati Dictionary, with 1.6+ lakh words across Gujarati, Hindi, and English, helps readers move through the language with clarity.
LEARNING & TOOLS
Rekhta Dictionary
Rekhta Dictionary is built for the exact moment when a word interrupts understanding. With 300,000+ words, the platform has clear English meanings, contextual usage, and audio pronunciation, making the dictionary useful not just for translation, but for sound, and application as well. The trilingual feature reduces script barriers and integration within Rekhta.org allows readers to access meanings directly while reading.
Rekhta Learning
Introduced in 2023, Rekhta Learning offers a clear learning pathway for people who feel connected to Urdu and Hindi but need guidance to read, understand, write, or appreciate them more deeply. The platform offers 17 self-paced courses, 400+ structured lessons, and 600+ hours of live learning that covers script learning, vocabulary, pronunciation, idioms, poetry writing and appreciation. Courses are modular, device-friendly, and supported across Urdu, Devanagari, and Roman scripts.
Rekhta Labs
Rekhta Labs is the research and innovation wing of the Foundation, where technology is used to make tools that can help poets, writers and researchers alike. Qaafiya works as a dynamic rhyme engine, drawing from a repository of 70,000+ ghazals to help users with rhyming patterns, similar sounds, and poetic usage. Taqti goes deeper into poetic structure. It scans a line, breaks it into syllables, assigns weight, and identifies whether the verse aligns with established meters. Built on proprietary algorithms and supported by Rekhta’s archive, Labs creates tools to help users test and refine their writing with clarity.
CULTURAL EXPERIENCES
Jashn-e-Rekhta
Jashn-e-Rekhta is the world’s largest celebration of Urdu and the shared Hindustani cultural landscape. First held in New Delhi in 2015, it brings language out of solitary appreciation and into collective public experience. Across three days, the festival draws 300,000+ visitors annually and brings together 300+ poets, writers, musicians, and performers across 30+ curated programmes. Mushaira, ghazal, qawwali, musical theatre, dastangoi, book launches, literary conversations, and interactive formats allow audiences to encounter language in multiple intensities. Beyond the stage, Aiwan-e-Zaiqa (food festival), Rekhta Bazaar (books & crafts) and the Rekhta Pavilion extend the experience to food, memory, technology, and cultural interaction. From India to international editions in Dubai and London, Jashn-e-Rekhta has become more than an event. It is a cultural movement.
Shaam-e-Rekhta
Shaam-e-Rekhta is a focused, single-evening cultural format that carries the spirit of Jashn-e-Rekhta into an intimate auditorium setting. Successfully staged in Mumbai & Hyderabad, it has drawn 2,000+ attendees and featured 55+ artists so far. Each edition is designed as a curated 120 to 150-minute experience, weaving together Rekhta mushaira, musical renditions, dramas, plays, ghazal saraai, Sufi music, qawwalis, and conversations.
Rang-e-Rekhta
Rang-e-Rekhta is a large-format, city-led cultural experience designed for scale, movement, and public participation. It brings the shared Hindustani cultural landscape into an open, high-energy setting where audiences can move freely across performances, interactive zones, and curated spaces. The format combines mushairas, music, spoken word, contemporary poetry, theatre, and participatory experiences drawn from Rekhta’s wider ecosystem. It is built for younger, urban, culturally curious audiences as well as long-time admirers of the language.
Language Mahotsav
Mahotsav (festivals) are the Foundation’s dedicated festivals for Indian languages (other than Urdu) like Rajasthani, Gujarati, Hindwi celebrating language, literature, and lived traditions. Conceived as the public extension of the digital initiatives, it brings preserved material back into voice, performance, food, craft, and shared experience. Spread across 2-3 days, the festival brings together more than 10,000 attendees, 25+ curated sessions, and 100+ artists.
ACCESS
Rekhta App
The Rekhta App brings the Foundation’s Urdu ecosystem into a mobile-first experience. It allows users to read, listen, watch, save, and revisit poetry, prose, and cultural content without depending on a desktop. The app carries Rekhta’s trilingual access model and dictionary support while bringing audio and video content into the same interface. Designed for a more frequent engagement, the app keeps Rekhta’s literary and cultural universe in the user’s pocket.
Rekhta Publications
Rekhta Publications brings Indian language literature into carefully produced, reader-friendly format. It extends the Foundation’s work to physical reading, published poetry, prose, curated selections, learning material, and literary works that deserve a longer life in print. With 200+ titles, Rekhta Publications helps make important voices, classic texts, and contemporary literary material available to readers who want to own, gift, study, and return to these works beyond the screen.
Rekhta Audio Visuals
Rekhta Audio-Visual Productions is the media arm of the Foundation, created to carry language beyond the page and into sound, screen, and storytelling. This work extends across Rekhta Plus and a network of YouTube channels, including Rekhta, Jashn-e-Rekhta, Hindwi, and Sufinama. The Rekhta YouTube channel hosts 1,800+ videos with 460,000+ subscribers and 40+ million views, while Jashn-e-Rekhta’s YouTube channel has crossed 2.4 million subscribers and nearly 480 million views.
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