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	Amardeep Singh: Reflections (and questions) on Amrita Pritam
		Pritam's story is somewhere between a realist (ethnographic and historical) account of a particularly nasty aspect of women's experiences of the partition, on the one hand, and a more internal psychological portrait where realism is only a secondary goal, on the other.
		Pritam might as well be talking about the thousands of women who suffer in times of war; who are raped, tortured, killed, abducted or left to die.
		Amrita Preetam wrote to tell the story of the lives of so many oppressed women as many were not brave enough to speak out themselves.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/11/reflections-and-questions-on-amrita.html (2889 words)

	The Hindu : New Delhi News : Govt. apathy disappoints Amrita Pritam
		Pritam, who is also the first woman recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the first Punjabi woman to receive the Padma Shri, fell in her bathroom and broke her pelvis bone.
		Pritam, who has to her credit 24 novels, 15 collections of short stories and 23 volumes of prose, has been awaiting for the past couple of years is the release of her collection of poetry in Punjabi titled "Mein Tumhe Phir Milungi".
		Pritam's contribution to the Bollywood movie "Pinjar", based on her book on Partition with the same title, he said she wrote two songs for the film and had discussions with the film crew explaining how she viewed the story.
	www.hindu.com /2004/07/03/stories/2004070312770300.htm (523 words)

	The Tribune - Magazine section - Saturday Extra
		Amrita was married to Pritam Singh in 1939.
		Amrita Pritam was at her best in Sunehe (Messages) published in 1955 in which she mixes the romantic and the sentimental within with the progressive callings outside.
		Amrita was a sensitive writer who highlighted the problem of Indian womanhood both in her poetry and fiction.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20051105/saturday/main1.htm (1651 words)

	The Sikh Times - Biographies - Amrita Pritam: Queen of Punjabi Literature
		I had known Amrita Pritam for more than 60 years and, besides her live-in gentleman companion and her children, been closer to her than anyone else.
		Amrita's father was a pracharak - a preacher of the Sikh faith from Gujranwala, where she was born.
		Amrita was not a highly educated woman, not exposed to good writing in languages other than Punjabi.
	sikhtimes.com /bios_111205a.html (814 words)

	Language in India
		Amrita Pritam's story is somewhere between a realist (ethnographic and historical) account of a particularly nasty aspect of women's experiences of the partition, on the one hand, and a more internal psychological portrait where realism is only a secondary goal, on the other.
		Amrita was overwhelmed by the suppression of women, largely because of their economic dependence on the male members of the family.
		Amrita was young at 86, her spirit soars in the young blood of the Punjab, nay, of India.
	www.languageinindia.com /dec2005/amritapritamsunwani2.html (4924 words)

	Always Amrita, Always Pritam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amrita was married to Pritam Singh in 1939.
		Amrita was a sensitive writer who highlighted the problem of Indian womanhood both in her poetry and fiction.
		Amrita Pritam did not confine herself to the limits and boundaries of this Punjab.
	www.mahapunjab.org /articles/2005/05sandhu.html (1555 words)

	Amrita Pritam - Independent Online Edition > Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pritam focused on the lives of young Muslim, Sikh and Hindu women who became the victims of abduction, rape and other untold miseries during the fury of the chaos and mindless killings, in a cameo that was eventually made into a successful film in 2002.
		Pritam's poignant poems also publicised the plight of Punjabi women, who had woven their suffering in a conservative milieu into folksongs, sung softly behind voluminous veils and in the privacy of the kitchens to which they were perpetually doomed.
		Her mother died when she was only 11; the ensuing loneliness made the pretty and petite Amrita reclusive and she sought solace in poetry, publishing her first anthology in 1935 at the age of 16 in Lahore, the cultural and political capital of Punjab and the city where she lived until partition.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article324017.ece (726 words)

	Pakistan Christian Post
		Amrita Pritam, R.I.P. NEW DELHI, OCT 31 (PTI) Writer and poet Amrita Pritam, a doyen of Punjabi literature known for her poignant stories dealing with the throes of India`s Partition as also her feminist ideas, died in her sleep here today.
		Pritam (86) died at her residence where she had been bed-ridden since 2002 after she broke her pelvis bone when she fell in the bathroom.
		Bed-ridden since 2002 after her bathroom fall, Pritam underwent an operation and a rod was inserted for support but she did not respond to the treatment and physiotherapy also failed to make a difference to her condition.
	www.pakistanchristianpost.com /newsviewsdetails.php?newsid=380 (738 words)

	amrita pritam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I was introduced to Amrita Pritam, Punjabi poet and author, by her phenomenal work "Shadows of Words"(Aksharon kay Saayee) and "Revenue Stamp" (Rasidi Ticket).
		Pritam's work Pinjar (literally skeleton) that tells the story of Indian partition from a woman's point of view was recently converted into a movie.
		Pritam, the only child of a school teacher and a poet, started writing when she was eleven.
	gbytes.gsood.com /index.php?print=358 (211 words)

	Amrita Pritam Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amrita Pritam (August 31, 1919 – October 31, 2005) (Punjabi: ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, amritā prītama, Hindi: अमृता प्रीतम, amr̥tā prītama) was a Punjabi poet and writer who migrated to India 1947, when the former British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan.
		She was born in 1919 into a Sikh family in Gujranwala, presently in Pakistan, the only child of a school teacher and a poet.
		Amrita Pritam spent the final years of her life with a renowned artist, Imroz.
	www.bookrags.com /Amrita_Pritam (289 words)

	India's writing legend Amrita Pritam dies at 86 - Turkish Daily News Nov 02, 2005
		Renowned Indian writer Amrita Pritam, whose prose and poetry reflected the pain of the subcontinent's division and the turbulence of her own life, has died in her sleep at the age of 86.
		Pritam's family crossed over from the new Islamic nation of Pakistan into India, and much of her writing deals with the violence she witnessed, the pathos of the biggest exodus of the 20th century and the sharp rift it created between Hindus and Muslims.
		Pritam, who lost her mother at 11, was married at 16, in keeping with the contemporary trend of young Indians at the time.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=27338 (414 words)

	A tribute to Amrita Pritam .::. Indus SRC 2003
		Born on 31 August 1919, Amrita Pritam had a distorted childhood (except the case that Rabindranath Tagore cajoled her once)--lost her mother when she was 11, and at a later adolescent stage, her poetry was something which her father thoroughly despised because of its unconventional tone.
		However, to confine Pritam to such a limited circumference is to ignore her other monumental works.
		It is quite often alleged of Pritam that she has no real sense of history; nor is she a philosophical poet interested in the dynamic of ideas" but these charges stand no when her works are read in a form they were written.
	www31.brinkster.com /induspak/AmritaP.htm (1115 words)

	Amrita Pritam \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		The death of Amrita Pritam, in New Delhi at the age of 86, is being mourned on both sides of the India-Pakistan border, for it was she who chronicled so movingly and passionately the pain of partition in 1947.
		But the genius of Pritam, which reinstated respect for the literature of her mother tongue, was recognised by the honours heaped upon her.
		Amarjit Chandan writes: Though Amrita Pritam's father was a mystic, devout Sikh, she did not practise the religion, and her relationship with that community always remained uneasy.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1627140,00.html (689 words)

	Punjab Kesari NewsDetails
		Pritam had been bed-ridden since 2002 after she broke her pelvis bone when she fell down in the bathroom.
		Born to a Sikh family in Gujranwala, Pakistan, on 31st August, 1919, Pritam crossed over to India after the Partition and several of her writings dealt with the pain she felt at the division of the sub-continent.
		Pritam got divorced in 1960, roughly the time when her writings started becoming more and more feminist, a reflection of her unhappy marriage.
	www.punjabkesari.com /frmNewsDetails.aspx?uid=12271 (419 words)

	The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
		AMRITA PRITAM was the leading Punjabi poet and a pioneer of women’s writing in contemporary India.
		It was set at the time of Partition, reaffirming Pritam’s belief that the horrors of that era remain vivid in the consciousness of all generations on both sides of the border.
		For she typifies not only creativity, but transmits to succeeding generations of women what it is to create and to perpetuate through the ecstasy of agony.” Amrita Pritam, poet, was born on August 31, 1919.
	www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /features/featuredetail.asp?file=novemberfeatures142005.xml (730 words)

	The Sikh Times - News and Analysis - Amrita Pritam's Novel to Be Rendered on Film (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born on Aug. 31, 1919, Amrita Pritam, the only child of a school teacher and a poet, had a distorted childhood.
		Based on Amrita Pritam's celebrated novel of the same name, the film is set in the Partition era.
		Pritam, on her part, had no hesitation in granting him permission to make a film on her story.
	www.sikhtimes.com /news_082702a.html (491 words)

	Kamat Research Database - Amrita Pritam
		The famous Punjabi poetess Amrita Pritam (born: 1919 in Punjab, died 2005) had the rare gift of ability to give tender expression to human sorrow and alienation.
		Her autobiography 'Revenue Stamp' bears a stamp of her creativity sensitivity, and the transparency.
		Pritam was awarded the prestigious Jnanapeeth in 1982.
	www.kamat.com /database/biographies/amrita_pritam.htm (111 words)

	DAWN - Features; November 2, 2005
		BORN in 1919 in Gujranwala, Amrita Pritam was the instrument of revival of Punjabi language and literature in our part of Punjab.
		Amrita was deeply involved with the classical sources of Punjabi literature and she successfully borrowed from these to address the needs of her time.
		Amrita was a great writer, poet and editor who was honoured with not only the highest literary award of her country, the Bharatiya Jananpith Award, but also many awards from European countries.
	www.dawn.com /2005/11/02/fea.htm (1010 words)

	India Today Magazine
		What Pritam remembers is the history of her soul and her poetry for they are inseparably blended.
		As Pritam's very raison d'etre is writing, it is quite natural that she uses all forms of writing.
		Above all this is an ode to relationships of all kinds-between man and woman, birth and rebirth, earth and sky, present and past, poetry and love.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/20011008/books2.shtml (547 words)

	India - Women - Soar High, O Ageless Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amrita’s marriage was arranged with a businessman while she was still in her teens.
		Pritam Singh was a good man but Amrita yearned for a soul mate who would share her artistic pursuits.
		But he became for Amrita an inspiration and poems written to him called Sunehe (Messages) was to win for her the Sahitya Akademi award in 1955.
	www3.estart.com /india/91.html (1116 words)

	Amrita Pritam: Renowned Punjabi writer Amrita Pritam was the first woman recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award
		Amrita Pritam was born into a Sikh family in 1919 in Gujranwala, presently in Pakistan.
		Amrita Pritam, has written extensively about the human tragedy of 1947 and her novel Pinjar on the partition days was later made into an award winning Hindi movie.
		Amrita began to write at an early age, and her first collection was published when she was only sixteen, the year she married an editor to whom she was engaged in early childhood.
	stories.indobase.com /article_464.shtml (379 words)

	The Sikh Times - Biographies - Amrita Pritam: Queen of Punjabi Literature
		I had known Amrita Pritam for more than 60 years and, besides her live-in gentleman companion and her children, been closer to her than anyone else.
		Amrita's father was a pracharak - a preacher of the Sikh faith from Gujranwala, where she was born.
		Amrita was not a highly educated woman, not exposed to good writing in languages other than Punjabi.
	www.sikhtimes.com /bios_111205a.html (814 words)

	The Little Magazine - Amrita Pritam - Wild Flower
		The Little Magazine - Amrita Pritam - Wild Flower
		Amrita Pritam is one of the pioneering woman writers of contemporary India.
		Her poetry in Punjabi won her the Jnanpith and Sahitya Akademi awards, among others.
	www.littlemag.com /jan-feb01/amrita.html (614 words)

	Amrita Pritam
		In truth, it was her creative talent wrought up with the twinge of bereavement that came of age during the dark days of the Partition of Punjab.
		Small wonder then, that one of the most beautifully weird poems ever written by Amrita was the New Heer or Aankhaan Waris Shah Nul which was addressed "to the author of the Punjabi romantic epic of immortal love".
		Equally astounding is her rich literary corpus --she had published 75 books -of which thee are 28 novels, 18 volumes of verse, five short stories and 16 miscellaneous prose.
	society.indianetzone.com /literature/1/amrita_pritam.htm (249 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		I was that man. Amrita and I lived quite close to each other — she in West Patel Nagar and I in South Patel Nagar — but we had not met till then.
		Amrita told me she could not live without me, but despite our relationship we were individuals and independent.
		Amrita would say that when she was with me she felt freer than when alone.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main14.asp?filename=hub111905_I_can.asp (1678 words)

	Amrita Pritam, Obituary: ShariaHaunt.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amrita Pritam was made of a stuff that enabled the women of 1947 to experience indignity and violation and yet survive.
		Amrita Pritam wrote about the condition of women during the partition but also later in Indian society.
		Amrita Pritam could have dedicated her poem to some other great master of Punjabi literature or spiritual tradition.
	www.shariahaunt.com /amritapritam.html (1047 words)

	Deepti Naval in a new direction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Currently she is on a lookout for locals in the picturesque valley of Himachal Pradesh for her film on the life on Amrita Pritam, the first prominent Punjabi female writer.
		The film showcases the early life of Amrita Pritam and the two men in her life, lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi and Imroz who was several years younger to her and whom she lived with without marrying
		Amrita Pritam who died in 2005 due to a prolonged illness is the holder of the highest literary award in India, the Jnanapith for her highly acclaimed novels namely Rassedi Ticket (Revenue ticket) and Pinjar (skeleton) which has also been made into a film.
	www.indiafm.com /news/2007/01/13/8644/index.html (195 words)

	archive: Amrita Pritam inspires her (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amrita Pritam, ironically, did not figure anywhere on the list which Sara carried simply because she had not dared to dream that a meeting with Amrita Pritam could ever be a reality.
		As an artiste, she was content in paying obeisance to the legendary poetess by giving voice to her immortal words, by singing them as emotionally as they had been written.
		Amrita Pritam toyed with the flowers Sara had carefully chosen for her - virgin, white jasmine, even as she was curious to find out whether visas were granted easily and whether a lot of people wanted to visit India.
	www.media-watch.org /articles/0500/395.html (420 words)

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