When I just wakeup in the morning and opened my smartphone I just saw this amazing news, That google makes a doodle and celebrating Birth Centenary of Amrita Pritam. That was the first surprising good news for all India.
100 years of Amrita Pritam: Google made doodles, know - who was this writer, Who was she??
A writer whose poetry shows the pain of partition of India-Pakistan in 1947.
Amrita Pritam was a famous poetess, novelist and essayist who was the best poet of the 20th century Punjabi language. Her most of the famous poetic arts is kept in his mother tongue Punjabi Beside Hindi. Today is her 100th birth anniversary. She was born on 31 August 1919 in Gujranwala, Punjab (now in Pakistan). On his 100th birth anniversary, Google has dedicated a very cute little doodle to her.
Google has made doodles in a very special way. In which a girl is wearing a suit salwar and writing something with a scarf on her head. Let me tell you, Amrita Pritam was one of the famous writers of her time. Let's try to find out her and his beautiful creations.
She Was fond of writing since childhood.
Amrita Pritam started writing poetry, story and essays in Punjabi when she was still a teenager. Her mother had died when she was just 11 years old, a little girl. After the death of her mother, responsibility fell on her shoulders at an early age.
Her first compilation published at the age of 16.
Amrita Pritam is one of those rare writers whose first compilation was published at the age of 16. When the period of partition came in 1947. In those times, he had suffered the pain of Partition, and had felt it very close, in many of his stories you can feel this pain yourself.
Her family settled in Delhi at the time of Partition. Now she started writing in Hindi along with Punjabi.
She was married to an editor at the age of 16. After which they got divorced in the year 1960.
Amrita Pritam has written about 100 books in total, including his famous autobiography 'Rasidi Ticket'. Amrita Pritam was among those writers whose works were translated into many languages.
Honours and awards
Amrita was also honored with several national and international awards, prominent among them being the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1956, the 1958 Award by the Department of Language of the Government of Punjab, the Bulgaria Vairov Prize (International) in 1988 and India's highest literary award, gyanpith puraskar in 1982.
She was the first woman to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award. Also, she was the first Punjabi woman to be awarded the Padma Shri in 1969.
Have been awarded these awards
Sahitya Academy Award (1956)
Padma Shri (1969)
Doctor of Literature (Delhi University - 1973)
Doctor of Literature (Jabalpur University - 1973)
Bulgaria Vairov Award (Bulgaria - 1988)
Indian Jnanpith Award (1982)
Doctor of Literature (Visva Bharati Santiniketan - 1987)
Honor by the Government of France (1987)
Padma Vibhushan (2004)
On her Demises
October 31, 2005 was the day when Amrita's pen went quiet forever. He died at the age of 86 due to prolonged illness. She lived in Hauz Khas area of South Delhi.
Today, even though he is not among us, he says that a writer never leaves you, poems, stories written and memoir written by him are always alive. And She will alive with us with his beautiful creations.