Women poets of Sub-continent | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

Pakistan Press Foundation

A tribute to Amrita Pritam

Pakistan Press Foundation

REGARDED as the pioneer of modern Punjabi poetry and literature, Amrita Pritam got immediate fame when she wrote the poignant poem ‘Ajj Aakhan Waris Shah Nuu’. In this poem she had expressed her anguish on the massacre of about one million people in Punjab in communal violence following the partition of British India in 1947. […]