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136 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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Amrita Pritam
370 books470 followersAmrita 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.
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.
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February 2, 2016
First Hindi book of the year. Most of the story is English written in Hindi which annoys me to the core. But then, Amrita Pritam's words are beautiful. the novella deals with existentialism and disillusionment with society, primarily from the protagonist Kapil's Point of view. There are two other short stories which deal with unrequited love and the condition of love struck women in 80s India. It saddens me that the situation hasn't changed much in all these years.
Overall, Not a bad read for this year.. but there is so much expected out of Amrita Pritam that this just doesn't knock my socks off.
Overall, Not a bad read for this year.. but there is so much expected out of Amrita Pritam that this just doesn't knock my socks off.
August 1, 2019
My first read of Amrita pritam. The story isn’t boring anywhere and the storytelling of amrita pritam is also very refined but I think I was expecting more.
The use of English sentences is excessive and it looks artificial at times. The sentimental angle is used more than required and the basics aren’t explained at times.
Like the haveli where they lived (just on the candle lights) and love affair with Shireen and Riki.
It felt like the refined Hindi version of Chetan Bhagat’s storytelling which has the capability of attracting the youths.
The use of English sentences is excessive and it looks artificial at times. The sentimental angle is used more than required and the basics aren’t explained at times.
Like the haveli where they lived (just on the candle lights) and love affair with Shireen and Riki.
It felt like the refined Hindi version of Chetan Bhagat’s storytelling which has the capability of attracting the youths.
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