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GHAR BETHIYE KITABEIN PARHIYE

This is a campaign asking you to stay indoors: read and acquaint yourself with
the wealth of Urdu literature at our disposal. Please email joyofurdu@gmail.com
your selfie videos of what Urdu literature/ poetry you are reading in Urdu or
even in translation, and we will share them across our platforms



Joy of Urdu’s “Ghar Bethiye Kitabein Parhiye” featured in The Independent UK’s
Urdu service! Read more

Left: Carpe Diem: Celebrating Sabeen 2020: Dr. Arfa Sayeda Zehra recites &
explain’s Faiz’ poem, “Bol”

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Designed by by architect Taimoor Khan Mumtaz, the Joy of Urdu logo is inspired
by traditional seal designs. The layout features an underlying matrix of
geometric proportioning based on rotating squares: a method used by medieval
period architects.
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Master calligrapher, Ahmed Ali Bhutta of Lahore, did the calligraphy for the
word “Urdu”, facilitated by Hast-o-Neest Institute of Traditional Studies &
Arts, Lahore. The script used is Lahori Nastaliq the national script of
Pakistan, developed by Ustad Abdul Majeed Parveen Raqam (1901-1946) in the early
1940s in Lahore.

The name “Joy of Urdu” is in English, depicting the project’s bilingual role:
the word “Urdu” is calligraphed in Nastaliq around the Nuqta, the dot that gives
a letter it’s sound depending on its placement above, below, or within the
symbol. In calligraphy, the nuqta equals the width of the reed pen and is the
basic module for proportioning letters in Nastaliq and other Persian-Arabic
scripts. This particular nuqta has been taken from an original manuscript by
Ustad Raqam.

This central symbol of the Nuqta as a geometric point, is the centre of the
circle, which contains all geometric forms. It is the dot beneath the first
letter – the ‘bey’ of ‘Bismillah’ i.e. ‘In the name of Allah’ – with which the
Quran begins- and which is said to contain the whole of the Quran.

The joyful, child-like quality of the repetitive pattern of the word “Urdu”
around the Nuqta becomes a symbol of a flower, a child’s pinwheel, or fireworks
bringing a burst of joy and light.



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Urdu scholar Dr. Ludmila Vasilyeva (Moscow) recites 3 poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz



Genre of “Marsia” in Urdu Poetry by Qasim Jafri



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