Hindwi

Emergence of vernaculars is one of the remarkable linguistic trends of the ongoing digital era. But, languages don’t just pop out of thin air. They carry with them a legacy that never gets old. It is de facto fresh as new at all stages of their being, in the form of their particular literature. One could almost say that given a literary character, they are an antidote to time. Issuing from the last phases of the Prakrit language, Hindi literature is not only an exalted museum of about a thousand years, but also it is a joyous pilgrimage to the very heart of Here and Now.

With a staggering rise in the number of Hindi readers, several spaces have appeared on the internet in a bid to cater to the rising demand, but none as vast and authentic as ‘Hindwi’ <www.hindwi.org> that currently has a collection of more than 15,000 verses of over 750 poets- ranging from the antiquity to the contemporary. Rekhta Foundation has been focused on its goal of preserving and promoting the literary heritage of the sub-continent ever since its inception. Its first enterprise - rekhta.org- has already been catering to these interests of Urdu speakers for more than a decade and hindwi.org is its attempt to endeavor the same in the literary domain of Hindi.

Hindwifeatures the works of around 750 poets divided into 7939 poems, 1098 padas, 1604 dohas and 389 folksongs. All of these works are further grouped under demonstrative classifications of prosodic features, editors’ choice, representative works and literary eras of their composition etc. In addition to it, hindwi.org also provides its users with a rich and fresh array of Hindi blogs. Hindi Kavita, kavya, dohe, anuwad, Hindi Sahitya & Shayari of famous poets.