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Amrita Pritam is most remembered for her poem, ‘Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu.’ Childhood & Early Life. Amrita was born Amrit Kaur on August 31, 1919, in Gujranwala, Punjab. She was born into a Sikh family to Raj Bibi, who worked as a teacher at a local school and Kartar Singh Hitkari, who worked as the editor of a literary journal.
Oct 31, 2005 · Amrita Pritam was an Indian novelist and poet who is known for writing Punjabi and Hindi poets and novels. She is best known for her poem ‘Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu’ which was dedicated to Waris Shah, an 18th-century Punjabi poet, and expressed her pain over massacres during the partition of India.
Aug 31, 2019 · An unwilling marriage with Pritam Singh of Lahore in 1936 when she was just 16 and the courage to walk out of it later, her insane and nearly one-sided love for lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi and smoking his cigarette leftovers to feel his touch and then a 40-year long live-in relationship with artist Inderjeet alias Imroz till her death, Amrita left the bold, courageous and painful imprints of her own life in her greatest literary works.
Amrita Pritam (31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian novelist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. She is the recipient of the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award. She wrote more than 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were all translated into several Indian and foreign languages.
Full of spring, the writer adorned and refined our lives with her prose and poetry throughout the 20th century.
Nov 12, 2023 · Amrita Pritam’s life took a significant turn when she married Pritam Singh, a professor in Lahore, at the age of 16. However, the marriage was marked by personal challenges and hardships. After the Partition of India in 1947, she migrated to India alone, leaving her husband behind.
Amrita Pritam has 309 books on Goodreads with 26636 ratings. Amrita Pritam’s most popular book is पिंजर [Pinjar].
