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Aug 31, 2016 · 12 Profound Poems By Punjab’s First Female Poet, Amrita Pritam, That Make Her Immortal Saumya Sahni
Amrita Pritam was a Punjabi poet and novelist who recorded the trauma of Partition in her best-know poem, “I Call upon Varis Shah Today.” Denis Matringe’s French translation of her novel, The Skeleton, was awarded the La Route des Indes Literary Prize (2005).
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‘I Say unto Waris Shah’ (1949) by Amrita Pritam (1919–2005) is the translated version of her Punjabi poem, ‘AjjAkhan Waris Shah Nun’. It is a literary specimen that belongs to the partition literature. The poem reminds us of the plight of people at the time of partition.
Amrita Pritam was a Punjabi poet and novelist whose best-known work, ‘I Call upon Varis Shah Today,’ depicts the trauma of the Partition of India.
A Letter. By Amrita Pritam. Translated from the Punjabi by D.H. Tracy & Mohan Tracy. Me—a book in the attic. Maybe some covenant or hymnal. Or a chapter from the Kama Sutra, or a spell for intimate afflictions. But then it seems I am none of these. (If I were, someone would have read me.)
Jan 12, 2023 · Punjabi poems of Amrita Pritam by Amrita Pritam, 1919-2005 Publication date 2009 Topics Amrita Pritam, 1919-2005 -- Translations into English, Panjabi poetry Publisher New Delhi : Star Publications Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English; Panjabi 159 p. : 23 cm
Empty Space. By Amrita Pritam. Translated from the Punjabi by D.H. Tracy & Mohan Tracy. There were two kingdoms only: the first of them threw out both him and me. The second we abandoned. Under a bare sky. I for a long time soaked in the rain of my body, he for a long time rotted in the rain of his.
Pritam is best remembered for her poignant poem, Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah – "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet, and an expression of her anguish over massacres during the partition of British India.
