Shaam-e-Sher
An evening of quality Urdu poetry - August 17th, 2014
The website with the largest collection of Urdu poems, Rekhta.org organized Sham-e-Sher, a heart-warming evening of quality Urdu poetry. On this occasion, India’s prominent entrepreneur and founder of Rekhta, Sanjiv Saraf spoke about Rekhta, the inauguration of which can be accredited to his keen interest in Urdu poetry. This interest led him to fulfill his dream of creating a website where Urdu poetry can be read in Urdu, Hindi as well as Roman scripts.
He also said that he was happy that now the connoisseurs of authentic and finest Urdu poetry will face no trouble searching the Internet for genuine and exquisite content. Urdu poetry is entitled to cross the barriers of geography and reach out to its lovers who are spread across every part of the world.
Rekhta.org was launched one and a half years back. Since then, it has come a long way and now, this website has a collection of 10,000 ghazals and nazms of over a 1000 poets. In addition to this, the e-book section of Rekhta has an assortment of treasurable contemporary books and literature and also magazines uploaded on it.
Sham-e-Sher was a star-studded event featuring a number of well-known personalities of the Urdu literary world, among these were: Mohammed Alvi (Ahmedabad), Nida Fazli (Mumbai), Zubair Rizvi (Delhi), Sultan Akhter (Patna), Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Jodhpur), Abdul Ahad Saaz (Mumbai), Shamim Abbas (Mumbai), Azhar Inayati (Rampur), Mahtaab Haidar Naqvi (Aligarh), Khushbir Singh Shaad (Jalandhar), Shoaib Nizaam (Kanpur), Shariq Kaifi (Bareilly), Abhishek Shukla (Lucknow) and Ameer Imam (Sambal).
Rekhta.org is well-known for organizing these types of mushairas in the past too. On the other hand, Rekhta.org has also promoted and launched new poets through its series titled, Nayee Awaazen. This venture consists of recording and uploading the contemporary works of new and upcoming poets. In the present scenario, Rekhta.org is the most comprehensive website of Urdu poetry that offers poetry, interviews, audio and videos of celebrated Urdu poets. Rekhta.org has visitors from across more than 150 countries worldwide, this number is consistently rising.
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Yesterday, we (Total 4 persons) visited India Islamic centre to attend SHAAM-E-SHER.
It was a very good experience, in ____every resprct. Kuchh-kuchh aisaa thaa,
Kabhi tuut ke barsaa, kbhi madhm-madhm, kabhi dhuup khili thi,to kbhi, RIMJHIM- RIMJHIM.
Thanks to rekhta.org pariwaar,Very-very Spl.thanks to Sanjiv Saraf
Bahut saarey pyaar ke saath,
- Ramesh
Thanks for providing me an opportunity to be in the company of great poets, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Do add me to your guest list for all your future endeavours.
- Daman Ahuja
Excellent effort.Complement s to Mr.San jive Shorof and Rekhta team.
- Naiyer Razzaqui
Thanks a ton for such a nice expierence. It was such a honour to be a part of this eonderful evening.. I will love be a part of these kind of events.
- Bharat Malhotra
@Rekhta many many Congratulations to you Rekhta, superb shaam-sher event, keep cantinue work for urdu adab God Bless you :))))
-Ujala Emaan @Ujala_Hayat
@Rekhta YES...I was there & it was an awesome experience
-Rachit Sethi @Rachit_Sethi
@iamrana hi.thx for introducing me to @Rekhta via twitter. I m a novice to urdu,couldn't understand many things but still had a great time
-Shweta Jain @shwetsjain
@Rekhta apko bohot bohot mubarak ho Rekhta mushaira-e-shaam-sher arenge karne ki. Aap adab ki be-laus khidmat kar rahi hain welldone
- Zami Hayat Irani @Zami_Hayat
Rekhta mushaira bulandi ki taraf gamzan hai.Aapa @iamrana ki mojudgi uske husn ko dobala kar rahi hai @Sai_ki_bitiya
- NAYAB HASAN @DOCTORNAYAB
Ab to jate hain Bazm se Mir/Phir milengey gar Khuda laya.(Feelings after attending most Memorable @Rekhta Mushaira)
- NAYAB HASAN @DOCTORNAYAB
@Rekhta Looking forward to many such evenings.
- Anuradha Shukla @anu1122
A wonderful evening by @Rekhta that revived d spirit of urdu poetry without any theatrics.
- - Anuradha Shukla @anu1122
@anu1122 @rekhta : It was indeed wonderful with Ameer Imam Nida sb and Mohammad Alvi sb at their best.
- Syed Hassan Kazim @journo007
@Rekhta Rekhta i suggest you aap next step ye leN ke Pakistani Aur Indian New Young Poets ka Competition karwayeN, #IndOPakMushaira
- Zami Hayat Irani @Zami_Hayat
@iamrana @Rekhta many thanks for inviting me.. was your best so far. Looking fwd to the next :)
- Puja Mehra @pujamehra
Shaam-e-Sher, truly an evening of quality Urdu poetry. Thank You, @Rekhta
Sharma Himanshu @him_ansh_u
Congrats to SHRI SANJIV SARAF JI AND Rekhta foundation for their sincere efforts to promote Urdu Shayeri. really it was a nice and well arranged programme and we appreciate the beauty and sense of love for poetry in the heart of shri sanjiv saraf !! prof kuldip salil also has no words to appreciate it. congrats- om sapra,delhi-9
- Om Sapra
V good
- Abdul Rafay
Pity - we missed the programme due to some last minute development!!!!! Congrats to Rekhta for their sincere efforts to promote Urdu Shayari.
- Mukta Lall
Mujhe bahut AFSOS hai programme nahi dekh paane ka
- Avdhesh Sharma
Behad Khubsurat Programme
Selected shayar with Quality poetry.......... What a Sham-e-sher
Thank You Rekhta
- Azeem Ahmad
Main ne pahla mushaira apne bachpan me aj se 20 saal pahle1994 me Aligarh me dekha tha.us waqt se lekar aj tak 100 se ziada mushaairon me shareek ho chuka hun. muje aitaraaf hai k rekhta k is mushaaire ki tarah meyaari muntakhab aur munfarid mushaaira aj tak naheen dekha. tah e dil se mubaarakbaad.
- Khalid Mubassir
