Leg up for Urdu literature, 90,000 titles digitised in six years
Leg up for Urdu literature, 90,000 titles digitised in six years
The 90,000 e-books - a staggering 19 million pages - are classified into diverse categories including children's literature, banned books, diaries and translations and can then be accessed by people.
NEW DELHI: It's a virtual library where some 90,000 titles in Urdu - including the Mahabharata and the Quran, as also autobiographies, fiction, travelogues, translations, manuscripts and pop magazines - have been digitised and made available on an internet portal for academicians, scholars and researchers to benefit from.
In addition, the Rekhta.org portal offers a collection of 'shers' and 'shayaris' and an essential collection of iconic poets - all this for free!
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