Amrita Pritam

Amrita Pritam Poetry

Amrita Pritam was a Punjabi poet and novelist whose best-known work, ‘I Call upon Varis Shah Today,’ depicts the trauma of the Partition of India. She was awarded the Route des Indes Literary Prize for Denis Matringe’s French translation of her novel, The Skeleton.

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I Say unto Waris Shah

‘I Say unto Waris Shah’ by Pritam evokes the spirit of Waris Shah to grieve the pain and loss inflicted on Punjab by the 1947 Partition.

Today I implore Waris Shah

to speak up from his grave

and turn over a page of the Book of Love.

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