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Known as a ‘goddess of defiance’[i], Amrita Pritam (August 31st 1919 – October 31st 2005), a rebel and a recalcitrant, is a revolutionary among the early women poets of post-independent India. Amrita had emerged as a strong literary voice before India was partitioned through her creative talent and she was equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border. Amrita Pritam discloses the vanity of the glorification of women through the depiction of female characters in her writings; and created a stir in Punjabi literary circle by expressing woman’s need, desire and sexuality.
[i] Bhagyasree Varma (ed.), Amrita Pritam: Life as Literature (Prestige Books, New Delhi, 2006), p. 7