कोरे कागज [Kore Kagaz]

by Amrita Pritam

English (translation)

Genres: Audiobook, Fiction

98 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Amrita Pritam (Punjabi: ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, امرتا پریتم ) was considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist. She was the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border. With a career spanning over six decades, she produced over 100 books, of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were translated into several Indian and foreign languages.

She is most remembered for her poignant poem, Aj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah - "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet in which she expressed her anguish over massacres during the partition of India in 1947. As a novelist, her most noted work was Pinjar (The Skeleton) (1950), in which she created her memorable character, Puro and depicted loss of humanity and ultimate surrender to existential fate. The novel was made into an award-winning eponymous film in 2003.

When British India was partitioned into the independent states of India and Pakistan in 1947, she migrated from Lahore to India, though she remained equally popular in Pakistan throughout her life, as compared to her contemporaries like Mohan Singh and Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

Known as the most important voice for the women in Punjabi literature, in 1956, she became the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for her magnum opus, a long poem, Sunehe (Messages). She received the Bhartiya Jnanpith, one of India's highest literary awards in 1982 for Kagaz Te Canvas (The Paper and the Canvas). The Padma Shri came her way in 1969 and finally, Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award in 2004, and in the same year she was honoured with India's highest literary award, given by the Sahitya Akademi (India's Academy of Letters), the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship given to the "immortals of literature" for lifetime achievement.

Reviews

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from wikipedia:

Amrita Pritam (August 31, 1919 – October 31, 2005) (Punjabi: ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, amritā prītam, Hindi: अमृता प्रीतम, amr̥tā prītam) was an Indian writer and poet, considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border[2:][3:]

Known as the most important voice for the women in Punjabi literature, in 1956, she became the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for her magnum opus, a long poem, Sunehray (Messages),[6:] later she received the Bhartiya Jnanpith, one of India's highest literary awards, in 1982 for Kagaz Te Canvas (The Paper and the Canvas). The Padma Shri came her way in 1969 and finally, Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in 2004, and in the same year she was honoured with India's highest literary award, given by the Sahitya Akademi (India's Academy of Letters), the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship given to the "immortals of literature" for lifetime achievement.[7:]

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[Naveen · Rating 5 out of 5]

अमृता जी का यह उपन्यास एक युवक का अपने मां की मृत्यु के बाद खुलने वाले रहस्यों की कहानी है जिसमे युवक जिसका नाम पंकज है, उसे अपने जन्म के कई रहस्य जो अभी तक उससे छिपे थे वे पता चलते है और जिसके बाद उसका जीवन ना चाहते हुए भी वैसा नहीं रह जाता जैसा पहले था। पंकज बहुत कोशिश करता है उन सवालों से बचने का जिनके जवाबों से उसे संतुष्टि से ज्यादा असंतोष मिलता, लेकिन समय का चक्र और मन की उथल पुथल उसे सारे प्रश्नों को पूछने पर मजबूर करती है। यह किताब पंकज के मन में चल रही ढेर सारी शंकाओं और दुविधाओं की कहानी कहती है।
अमृता जी की यह किताब जरुर पढ़ें।

[Bhagyashree]

I love this account of emptiness and blankness in this very human existence....!

[Kaur Taur · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vadhia lggi

[Manish Pandey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great classic novel by Amrita Pritam. Must read if you like Hindi novels.

[Soumyaa Tiwari · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[abhay Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

यह पुस्तक एक उपन्यास मात्र नहीं , एक जीवंत दर्शन है

[readwatchinterpret · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Hitendra Anant · Rating 2 out of 5]

जितनी प्रशंसा इस उपन्यास को हासिल है, यह उसके योग्य नहीं। औसत से कम दर्जे का उपन्यास है।