![]() Rejecting adult responsibilities and plagued by loneliness following her mother's death, Amrita began to write at an early age and published her first anthology of poemsĪmrit Lehren (Immortal Waves) in 1936. Born as Amrit Kaur in 1919 in Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab (present-day Pakistan), she lost her mother at the tender age of eleven. ![]() For everyone who felt a void upon Amrita leaving for heavenly abode, the lines act as a source of solace and comfort.Īmrita Pritam was not just an essayist, novelist, and poet but a woman who defied all norms of her times and formed an identity of her own, as if she was the revolution personified. Though considered to be written before her death for Imroz, her partner, with whom she spent the last forty years of her life, it seems as if the lines are speaking to all those who fell in love with Amrita and her writing. Mein Tenu Phir Milangi, later translated into English as ‘I Will Meet You Yet Again’, invokes varied emotions in the hearts of everyone. ![]() The serene and tranquilizing lines from Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi poem
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