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Samrup Rachna is a 60 work calligraphic art collection of a''pni boli'', a fusion of Hindi-Urdu, created by Pakistani Syed Mohammed Anwer.
The name comes from the
2. Kuch Khaas The Centre for Arts, Culture & Dialogue, Islamabad 2012
A session was organized with the Artist of Samrup Rachna Calligraphy Syed Mohammed Anwer at Kuch Khaas Center of Arts & Culture, Islamabad on 27th April, 2012.
3. Samrup Rachna – Apni Boli Book Launch at Cultural Festival on World Local Languages day, 2016
The Book on Samrup Rachna calligraphic work was launched on World Local languages Day, 2016 at a Cultural Festival held at Lok Virsa Islamabad. Speaking at the occasion Anwer shared his journey of creating this unique Art work. International Media VOA.
6. South Asian Scripts, Chicago University USA, 2018
The art work of Syed Mohammed Anwer was displayed in an exhibition the world of South Asian Scripts titled “ Cosmopolitanism and National Identities” held in University of Chicago from 5 September 2018 to 14 December 2018.
File:Juta ( shoe) is written in Samrup Rachna calligraphy by Dr. Syed Mohammed Anwer..JPG, "Juta" ( shoe) written in Samrup Rachna calligraphy
File:Buddha is written in Samrup Rachna calligraphy by Dr Syed Mohammed Anwer.jpg, "Buddha" written in Samrup Rachna calligraphy
File:Samrup.jpg, "Fatwa" written in Samrup Rachna Calligraphy
File:Surahi in samrup rachna calligraphy.jpg, "Surahi" in samrup rachna calligraphy
Samrup Rachna is a 60 work calligraphic art collection of a''pni boli'', a fusion of Hindi-Urdu, created by Pakistani Syed Mohammed Anwer.
The name comes from the Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
words ''Samrup'' (सामरुप) (سامروپ), meaning "congruence" or similar, and ''Rachna'' (रचना) (رچنا) meaning "creative work or design". In linguistics, languages which are written in two different scripts are called Synchronic digraphia
In sociolinguistics, digraphia refers to the use of more than one writing system for the same language. Synchronic digraphia is the coexistence of two or more writing systems for the same language, while diachronic digraphia (or sequential digra ...
. Hindustani is one such language.
The calligraphy uses two altogether different scripts of Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...
and Nastaʿlīq
''Nastaliq'' (; fa, , ), also romanized as ''Nastaʿlīq'', is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script in the Persian and Urdu languages, often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, rarely for Arabic. ''Nasta ...
in unison or Hindi-Urdu which Anwer calls ''apni boli''. Anwer had learned the Devanagari script from his mother who had told him that only the scripts of Hindi and Urdu were different, but the language was the same. He states that the idea of fusing the two scripts came to him one day as he was doodling in his office, which then emerged as patterns and eventually he started painting them.
The calligraphy forms a picture of the word when written. For example, the Hindustani word ''surahi'' (meaning "ewer" or "pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...
" in English) is written in ''apni boli'' calligraphy in a way that a picture of an ewer is also formed.
The purpose of the artwork is to illustrate that language does not have a religion.
The 60 work collection was launched as a book in 2016 called ''Samrup Rachna – Calligraphic Expression of Apni Boli indi-Urdu' - at the Pakistan Mother Languages Literature Festival at the National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage.
Samrup Rachna exhibitions
1.The Launch of Samrup Rachna Calligraphic Expressions 2012 The first Inaugural Exhibition of Samrup Rachna – Art for Peace held in Islamabad from 2-4 April, 2012. The artist Syed Mohammed Anwer while talking with international media Voice of America - VOA.
2. Kuch Khaas The Centre for Arts, Culture & Dialogue, Islamabad 2012
A session was organized with the Artist of Samrup Rachna Calligraphy Syed Mohammed Anwer at Kuch Khaas Center of Arts & Culture, Islamabad on 27th April, 2012.
3. Samrup Rachna – Apni Boli Book Launch at Cultural Festival on World Local Languages day, 2016
The Book on Samrup Rachna calligraphic work was launched on World Local languages Day, 2016 at a Cultural Festival held at Lok Virsa Islamabad. Speaking at the occasion Anwer shared his journey of creating this unique Art work. International Media VOA.
6. South Asian Scripts, Chicago University USA, 2018
The art work of Syed Mohammed Anwer was displayed in an exhibition the world of South Asian Scripts titled “ Cosmopolitanism and National Identities” held in University of Chicago from 5 September 2018 to 14 December 2018.
References
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