We bring to you a poem from when, it is said, she lay dying but with enough words to expressing her undying love to Imroz. She ended up living the last forty years of her life with a man she wasn’t married to, a bold statement in those times and a feat worth mentioning. Much is written of their intense and unusal relationship. Married early to a man she later divorced, she fell in love with poet Sahir Ludhianvi but their love was never to have a conventional happy ending. Her personal life is as beautiful and full of story as her words. “Utth dard-mandaan dey dardiyaa tak apna Punjab,Įven now, when Punjabi is written in Gurumukhi script on one side of the border and in the Persian script on the other, Amrita Pritam’s poetry is popular in both India and Pakistan. The agony of communal violence and her call for people to see sense is perfectly captured in her lines below, The painful split of Punjab during the partition affected her deeply when she left Lahore to move to the new India. She wrote on partition and she wrote on the pain it inflicted on all, especially women. As the first prominent woman Punjabi poet and writer, Amrita Pritam made waves for her voice and for her personal life.
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