#PUNJABI SHAYARI IN GURMUKHI FONT FREE#

Whereas her earlier poems conformed to conventional patterns of meter and rhyme, and often carried echoes of folk music and song in her lines, she progressed to free verse expressing radical iconoclastic rebellion against accepted values Love notable erotic and physical love which forms very little part of her personal life, is the predominant theme in much of her writings. This was the theme of her novel' Pinjar' and her most famous poem 'To Waris Shah'.Īmrita's forte is her poetry not her prose that much. The partition of Punjab in 19'17, and fratricidal strife between Muslims on the one side and Sikhs and Hindus on the other, hurt her very deeply and we find expressions in some of her best writings. She freed herself from the shackless of religion and conventions, though brought up 10 a rigidly orthodox Sikh milieu that took the form of deliberate defiance of orthodox Khalsa traditions. Some of her poems were translated into some foreign languages, and her novel 'Pinjar' (the skeleton) was transformed into a feature film.Īmrita Pritam was a liberated woman in every sense of the word, as a person, poet and novelist. Her output of poems, short stories and novels were identified as most impressive.

Slowly she won recognition and was invited to conferences abroad, and visited Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Rumania and some Western European countries, and these visits enlarged her horizons which found concrete expressions in her magazine 'Naagmani.Īmrita Pritam continued to be a very private person. She slogged hard, writing and broadcasting to keep home fires burning. Thereafter the husband and wife drifted apart, but she continued her career as a poet and writer of fiction. It was as a mark of respect for her husband Pritam Singh, that Amrita replaced the suffix 'Kaur' to her name by Pritam, thus to become Amrita Pritam. As the petite, budding rhymster blossomed into a beautiful young woman and a poet, so did the fragrance of her works spread across her native land.Īmrita was married to a prosperous trading family, the Kwatras, who owned a popular general store in Anarkali in Lahore. The fact that she was the only child of a widowed father, who had dedicated his life to preaching the gospel of Sikhism, made her in to an object of affection. Her comeliness and precocity made her an instant success. More than half a century ago a pretty little girl was first seen and heard reciting here compositions in praise of the Sikhs and 'Ten Gurus' at a Kavi Darbar in Lahore. She expired on 31st October 2005, after a long illness.Īmrita Pritam and Her Poetry by Khushwant Singh She was also honored with the Padma Shri by the President of India in 1969.

She received several honors and awards during her life time, including India’s highest literary award- the Japheth Award in 1981. Many of these books have been translated and published in over 20 languages of the world. It has been made into a commercial Bellywood film a few years ago.Ī Punjabi poetess, novelist and short story writer, who authored more than 60 books. This feeling found expression in some of her best writings, including her most famous poem addressed to Warisb Shah (author of the epic love poem Heer Ranjha Which reads as:Īnother of her well known novels, another of her well known novels, Pinjar, is set during the partition days, and brings out vivid images of the anguish and sorrow of innocent people during the violence at that time. The partition of Punjabi in 1947, and the fratricidal strife between Muslims and Hindus hurt her very deeply.

Thought she was a Sikh by birth, she freed herself from the shackles of religion and convention. The conjuncts ਗ੍ਹ (gha), ਜ੍ਹ (jha), ਡ੍ਹ (ḍha), ਦ੍ਹ (dha) and ਬ੍ਹ (bha) have a level tone when at the beginning or a word of syllable, and a low rising tone when elsewhere.Amrita Pritam was a liberated woman in every sense of the word: as a person, a poet and a novelist. The letters ਹ (ha), ਘ (gha), ਝ (jha), ਢ (ḍha), ਧ (dha) and ਭ (bha) have a level tone when at the beginning or a word of syllable, and a high falling tone when elsewhere.

Punjabi is a tonal language with three tones: high falling, low rising and level.

When certain consonants occur together, special conjunct symbols are used which combine the essential parts of each letter.

When they appear at the beginning of a syllable, vowels are written as independent letters.

Diacritics, which can appear above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to, are used to change the inherent vowel.

Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines.

Type of writing system: syllabic alphabet.

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