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New Delhi: The fifth edition of Jashn E Rekhta will begin from Friday at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium. Rekhta Foundation is organizing the event that will feature art forms like ghazal, Sufi music, qawwali, Dastangoi and poetry recitation. Rekhta Foundation is a trust founded Sanjiv Saraf for the promotion of Urdu. Times of India as quoted Sanjiv Saraf as saying, ‘in the Indian subcontinent Urdu had enjoyed the patronage of Aristocrats and Kings; today there is a resurgence of the language’. Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Vishal Bhardwaj, Javed Jaffrey, Nooran Sisters and others will participate in the event..