{"id":5637,"date":"2021-08-31T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2021-08-30T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:54:10","slug":"amrita-pritam-feminist-punjabi-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/31\/amrita-pritam-feminist-punjabi-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Amrita Pritam: The Feminist Chronicler of the Horrors of Partition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amrita Pritam was born on this day in a village in present-day Pakistan in 1919. Her mother\u2019s death left a void in her life that writing was a balm for. She wrote her first anthology when she was just sixteen.<\/p>\n<p>Although she started writing sweet love dirges, Pritam\u2019s heart was with the people. The partition wrenched at her heart and shaped her art. In anguish, she wrote the famous poem <em>Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu<\/em> addressed to the Sufi poet <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waris_Shah\">Waris Shah<\/a>. Amrita Pritam was one of the first writers who addressed the horrors of partition through a feminist lens.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has been translated widely and adapted as screenplays, Pinjar being one of her most famous stories. She was the recipient of various awards and was the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri. She also received the Jnanpith Award for her lifetime contribution to Punjabi literature.<\/p>\n<p>Find her books <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/s?k=amrita+pritam&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amrita Pritam was born on this day in a village in present-day Pakistan in 1919. Her mother\u2019s death left a void in her life that writing was a balm for. She wrote her first anthology when she was just sixteen. Although she started writing sweet love dirges, Pritam\u2019s heart was with the people. The partition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/31\/amrita-pritam-feminist-punjabi-literature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amrita Pritam: The Feminist Chronicler of the Horrors of Partition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[291],"tags":[554,555,331],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/amrita-pritam-Facebook.png?fit=940%2C788&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vAZr-1sV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5488,"url":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/19\/the-book-that-vindicated-the-rights-of-women\/","url_meta":{"origin":5637,"position":0},"title":"The Book That Vindicated The Rights of Women","date":"July 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"On this day, the Seneca Falls Convention, which launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States, was held in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York. 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