A Jashn, a celebration, a tribute. Rekhta Foundation presents Jashn-e-Rekhta, a unique festival celebrating Urdu’s inimitable beauty, its soul-stirring cadence and its lyrical splendor.
Jashn-e-Rekhta, a first of its kind Urdu festival held in India, made its debut in 2015 and attracted over 15000 Urdu lovers from across India and the sub-continent. Over 60 poets, artists, novelists, litterateurs, journalists, lyricists from India and Pakistan participated in the festival, to take the audience on a journey of exploration of Urdu and its many-splendored facets.
The second edition is being held in the heart of New Delhi at the **IGNCA** Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts] , the hub of art and culture. Scheduled from **12[SUP]th[/SUP] - 14[SUP]th[/SUP] February 2016**, the festival will celebrate the quintessential spirit of Urdu, its inclusive ethos, creative richness and linguistic heritage. For three mesmeric days, some of the Urdu’s finest poets, authors and artists will come together to bring alive Urdu’s lyrical beauty and resonating eloquence through live performances, panel discussions and interactive sessions.
The Jashn aspires to engage, enlighten and entertain audiences from diverse backgrounds, both Urdu and non-Urdu speaking, in a vibrant, participative and festive ambience.
I have gone through the videos for last year's festival.
They are more organised than KLF. KLF is just waste of time. same people, same topics, all over the years. Everything in KLF revolves around wanna be English writers. At least, Rekhta people can conduct sessions in proper Urdu. In KLF, moderation is very low standard and they ruin few better sessions due to unprofessional moderators.
I have gone through the videos for last year's festival.
They are more organised than KLF. KLF is just waste of time. same people, same topics, all over the years. Everything in KLF revolves around wanna be English writers. At least, Rekhta people can conduct sessions in proper Urdu. In KLF, moderation is very low standard and they ruin few better sessions due to unprofessional moderators.
It seems more organized. I think organizer is very big shot and have business and IPL scene. He himself learned Urdu and dedicated a site on Urdu , Roman Urdu, Devanagri...
It seems more organized. I think organizer is very big shot and have business and IPL scene. He himself learned Urdu and dedicated a site on Urdu , Roman Urdu, Devanagri...
In Pakistan KLF is organised by Oxford University press with sponsorship of multinational companies and foreign embassies. Money is not the problem, it the attitude towards your roots that matters.
May be as luck had it, Pakistan is lucky (unlucky depending on perspective) that it has one common language which is understood if not spoken by almost everybody in Pakistan.
In India every language writer wishes to become English writer because English alone is Pan-India language and is officially the most used and viable language in my opinion.
I wish Urdu success with onslaught of Hindi in Devnagari script, the script of Urdu is no longer understood by masses, it is in decline
May be as luck had it, Pakistan is lucky (unlucky depending on perspective) that it has one common language which is understood if not spoken by almost everybody in Pakistan.
In India every language writer wishes to become English writer because English alone is Pan-India language and is officially the most used and viable language in my opinion.
I wish Urdu success with onslaught of Hindi in Devnagari script, the script of Urdu is no longer understood by masses, it is in decline
Now this is something shocking for a country having 20 crore Muslim population.
They do not know Urdu script, which ultimately means they can't read Quran in Arabic script. If you know Arabic script, you know almost 80% of Urdu script.
My observation could be wrong, KKF can certainly tell better.
but what I have observed is that every advertisement of Urs or eid mubarak even in muslim areas are generally written in Devnagari script.
script wise Urdu is a loser in India. I have gone through some videos from Jashn e Rekhta where participants told that even classic Urdu literature was being sold in devnagri script outside festival venue. I thought it might be to promote Urdu among those who can't read Urdu in its Arabic / Persian script, but it appears that Urdu script is in danger (if they are writing Urs and eid mubarak in devnagri).
script wise Urdu is a loser in India. I have gone through some videos from Jashn e Rekhta where participants told that even classic Urdu literature was being sold in devnagri script outside festival venue. I thought it might be to promote Urdu among those who can't read Urdu in its Arabic / Persian script, but it appears that Urdu script is in danger (if they are writing Urs and eid mubarak in devnagri).
Hindi with devnagri in institutionalized language, people in down south study it as third language while Urdu script is rarely well read. Only in Deccan I have seen urdu having some standing as state board of telangana and possibly Karnataka teach Urdu as well.