Rekhta - Urdu poetry & literature

Rekhta.org stands as the largest platform globally dedicated to Urdu poetry and literature. The Rekhta app offers an extensive collection of Urdu ghazals, sher, nazms, rubai, qita, and dohe presented in three scripts: Urdu, Hindi, and Roman. Users can effortlessly access the definitions of any Urdu word in Hindi with a simple click on the term.

A carefully selected compilation of sher covering diverse themes, topics, and emotions such as love Shayari, sorrowful Shayari, Motivational Shayari, romantic Shayari, friendship Shayari, passionate Shayari, painful Shayari, unfaithfulness Shayari, and more is available for convenient reading and sharing with friends.

Rekhta boasts an outstanding collection of ghazals and nazms from renowned Urdu poets including Mirza Ghalib, Meer Taqi Mir, Allama Iqbal, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Jaun Elia, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Rahat Indori, among others. There are also works by progressive poets, female poets, and emerging young talent.

The finest Urdu stories, essays, quotations, and khaake from prominent Urdu authors such as Sadat Hasan Manto, Premchand, Krishan Chander, and Ismat Chughtai are provided in both Urdu and Hindi.

Utilize our powerful search engine to discover any sher o shayari you desire. You can search using English, Hindi, or Urdu scripts, and the intelligent search algorithm will deliver the most relevant results. Additionally, you can bookmark your favorite shayari to read offline, and the app features a dark theme option.

Download the app to immerse yourself in and grasp the essence of exceptional Urdu poetry and literature in Urdu, Hindi, and English.

Features of the Rekhta App include:

• Shayari presented in Hindi, English, or Urdu scripts

• Instant word meanings available

• Comprehensive search functionality

• A wide array of Urdu poetry formats like Ghazal, Sher, Nazm, Dohe, Marsiya, Qita, Rubai, Rekhti, etc.

• Over 50,000 Ghazals and 15,000 Nazms

• More than 8,000 classical and contemporary Urdu poets

• The best Urdu stories, essays, and quotes available in Urdu and Hindi

• Image-based shayari, along with audio and video content of Ghazals

Additional Features:

• Save your favorite Shayari

• Dark Theme option

• Sharing made easy

• Frequent updates with new features and content

ABOUT FOUNDER

Sanjiv Saraf is the founder, Chairman and principal shareholder of Polyplex Corporation Limited, which is among the world’s largest producers of PET films.

Born on 30 December 1958, Sanjiv is an alumnus of The Scindia School and a graduate from IIT, Kharagpur (1980). After completing his graduation, he joined his family business in Orissa. In 1984, he ventured out on his own to establish Polyplex. Sanjiv has built an outstanding organization with exemplary values and ethos which are widely respected and admired in the industry, as well as within the financial markets- being publicly listed both in India and in Thailand.

An entrepreneur at heart, Sanjiv has incubated other businesses such as Manupatra –India’s premier legal information provider. Concern for the environment has led him to invest in renewable energy with the launch of a number of Hydro Electric Power projects in Punjab, Uttarakhand and Sikkim. He is an active member on the boards of various companies across different industries.

A humanist, Sanjiv takes personal interest in the company’s community initiatives, including the 1200 student non-profit school. Sanjiv is a voracious reader; passionate about Urdu poetry and has recently learnt the language. He is a lover of art and music.

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Let’s count them words!

Every word has a story and all stories are made of words. This story is about counting words.

Can we count how many unique words there are in Urdu? 

Well, RekhtaDictionary has more than 3.5 lakh of them. That’s an overwhelming number. These words include compound words, idioms and phrases. Also a lot of them are grammatical or dialect-based variations of one another.

So, maybe we should ask a more practical question: how many unique words have been used in Urdu Poetry? In all the ghazals that we have in rekhta, there are roughly 65 thousand unique words used by all the poets. Some of them are used quite frequently and some are seldom used.

We asked the computer to take all the ghazals and count how many times each word has been used in this corpus. It only took a few seconds to do that. Then we asked which is the most commonly occurring word in Urdu Poetry, hoping to gain some groundbreaking insight with the answer. The computer replied and the answer was…totally anti-climatic! Can you guess what it is? Well, it is ‘hai / है /ہے’. Not quite profound, eh? We were not exactly interested in words like hai. So let us ignore them. 

Such words which are used so often in a language, are typically filtered out in most Natural Language Processing contexts, and also have a name: ‘stop-words’. So we set out to find a list of stop words for Urdu on the internet, but could not find a decent one. No worries, we can make our own list of stop words. Sorting the list of words by occurrence, and manually picking out these stop words, we made this list, which is publicly published just in case any Urdu NLP researcher finds it useful. It mainly consists of common auxiliary verbs, pronouns and prepositions. After this tangent, let us go back to our original question.

Which word, except for these stop-words, is the most commonly used word in Urdu Poetry? Try to guess once again please.