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Traversing through the myth and reality of Heera Mandi
The courtesan movies never fail and so it is with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest venture which is drawing applause at home and some wrath in the neighbouring country. The writer recalls her own visit to Heera Mandi in 2004 which brought her face-to-face with poignant stories of the world’s oldest profession
Updated on May 19, 2024 07:10 AM IST
Nirupama Dutt
Roundabout: When literature becomes balm for women who love too much
Memories have a strange habit of turning up on cold winter nights tucked in a quilt; this time, it is a conversation in a women’s room, sitting with poets Amrita Pritam and Fahmida Riaz, that comes back to mind
Updated on Jan 14, 2024 07:46 AM IST
Nirupama Dutt
Amrita Pritam’s partner Imroz passes away at 97
Obituary: World of Punjabi letters mourns death of artist Imroz (Jan 26, 1926 - Dec 22, 2023) in Mumbai on Friday
Published on Dec 22, 2023 03:37 PM IST
Nirupama Dutt
Essay: Revisiting Pinjar in time for Amrita Pritam’s 104th birth anniversary
Millions lost their homes and became refugees during the Partition and female bodies became battlegrounds. So where does a woman belong, asks Amrita Pritam
Updated on Aug 25, 2023 10:00 PM IST
Sharmistha Jha
Roundabout: I will meet you yet again!
Punjab's Amrita Pritam, the first woman writer across all Indian languages to win the Sahitya Akademi Award, is celebrated in a new book titled "Amrita Pritam: The Writer Provocateur." The book, edited by Hina Nandrajog and the late Prem Kumari Srivastava, explores her influential writings and the challenges she faced as a woman in a patriarchal society. It includes select poems, fiction excerpts, and articles by scholars, offering fresh insights into her work. The book also features a conversation with actor Deepti Naval, who played Pritam in a play called "Ek Mulaqat."
Updated on Jul 30, 2023 03:13 PM IST
Nirupama Dutt
Roundabout: Love beneath the gentle shade of the chameli
Poet and anthologist Abhay K celebrates love with the unmistakable touch of the subcontinent in a new anthology of great Indian poems
Updated on Nov 22, 2020 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Nirupama Dutt
Amrita Pritam 101st birth anniversary: Quotes on love, pain and partition by the 20th-century Punjabi poet
Amrita Pritam 101st birth anniversary: Remembering the 20th-century fearless and fierce Punjabi poet, who is equally loved on both sides of the India–Pakistan border, with these iconic quotes of her that perfectly capture the essence of love, pain and partition
Updated on Aug 31, 2020 06:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Zarafshan Shiraz
On Sahir Ludhianvi’s 99th birth anniversary, here’s a list of some of his most loved songs
Legendary Bollywood lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi would have turned 99 had he been alive today. On his birthday anniversary, here’s a collection of some of the most memorable and best-loved songs from his Hindi films.
Updated on Mar 08, 2020 02:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
90TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY: The legend of Surinder Kaur lives on
Punjabi folk singer, hailed as the Nightingale of Punjab, took the women’s songs out of the confines of home and spread them all around the world
Updated on Nov 25, 2019 01:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Nirupama Dutt
Amrita Pritam had prophesied her heir to be a writer of next generation
Present-day students want to know Amrita Pritam as a poet and a prose writer, dismissing all extraneous trappings, including her love life much highlighted by the media.
Updated on Oct 31, 2019 05:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Nirupama Dutt
The legend of Amrita Pritam lives on through her poems and stories
100 years of Amrita Pritam: Best remembered for her poem Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu (Ode to Waris Shah), which poignantly captures her anguish over the massacres during the Partition in 1947. On her 100th birth anniversary, here are some of her poems and quotes that will move you, yet inspire you.
Updated on Aug 31, 2019 01:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Saumya Sharma
Google Doodle celebrates Amrita Pritam’s 100th birth anniversary
Amrita is considered a path-breaking woman, who rose to fame with her literary works like Pinjar, Suneray and Nagmani that brought to the fore the grim reality of atrocities being perpetrated on women across borders.
Updated on Aug 31, 2019 04:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
‘A pioneer, Amrita Pritam paved way to modern day feminism’
Amrita is considered a path-breaking woman, who rose to fame with her literary works like Pinjar, Suneray and Nagmani that brought to the fore the grim reality of atrocities being perpetrated on women across borders.
Updated on Aug 30, 2019 10:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | Atish Sharma, Ludhiana
Essay: Demolishing the women’s ghetto
Mita Kapur writes of the need to do away with categorizing writers according to their gender
Updated on Jul 27, 2019 03:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mita Kapur
Words of Wisdom: Find your calling, stay curious and live with passion to do justice, says historian Jagtar Singh Grewal
After quitting the audit service and joining Government College, Hoshiarpur, to study history in 1954, Grewal realised he was influenced by Partition and wanted to know more about the cultural interchange between Hindus and Muslims.
Updated on Apr 26, 2019 10:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Yojana Yadav
Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan spotted hand in hand with daughter Aaradhya. See pic
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and their daughter Aaradhya were spotted at the Mumbai airport. See pictures here.
Updated on Apr 18, 2019 02:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Aishwarya Rai’s rep responds to rumours of actor’s pregnancy after pic from Goa holiday goes viral
Aishwarya Rai’s recent picture from her holiday in Goa has gone viral and fans are wondering if she looks pregnant in it.
Updated on Mar 24, 2019 04:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Sahir Ludhianvi-Amrita Pritam love story: One that played out through letters, silences and pain
Sahir Ludhianvi and Amrita Pritam love story compassed a universe of love, pain, acceptance, loss, remorse, sensuality and almost everything in between. On Sahir’s birthday, a look at their life together.
Updated on Mar 08, 2019 05:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Nivedita Mishra
Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan to star in Sahir Ludhianvi biopic?
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan are rumoured to feature as Amrita Pritam and Sahir Ludhianvi respectively in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next, a biopic on the legendary lyricist.
Updated on Mar 04, 2019 04:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Elgar Parishad case: Bail hearings of accused to be heard in Pune court on November 13-14
The judge in his order stated that prima facie there appeared to be serious charges against all the accused of conspiring and indulging in anti-national activities
Updated on Nov 04, 2018 04:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | HT Correspondent
Roundabout: Legend of Sahir Ludhianvi, lore of Pyaasa
One grew up listening to the songs he penned, truly songs of hope: Yeh subha kabhi to aayegi (It will be morning again).
Updated on Oct 28, 2018 08:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Nirupama Dutt
‘See you again’: Kasauli lit fest draws to a close on a poetic note
Hardly, any eye was left dry, when a clip on the poem which, author-journalist Nirupama Dutt, who knew Pritam well, described the poem as one which perhaps garnered as much attention as her ode to Waris Shah.
Updated on Oct 15, 2018 05:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Kasauli | Aishwarya Khosla and Sumeda
‘I couldn’t keep her request but that didn’t soured our relations’
Amrita Pritam was a famous Punjabi writer and poet, who became the first woman to win the National Sahitya Akademi Award in 1956.
Updated on Aug 31, 2018 09:28 AM IST
Nirupama Dutt
Remembering Amrita Pritam on the poet’s 99th birth anniversary
Amrita moved from Lahore to India during the Partition, although she remained popular in both countries. In 1956, Pritam became the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for ‘Sunehade’ (Messages).
Updated on Aug 31, 2018 08:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Kabir Bhandari
Remembering Amrita Pritam, lines from her best poems on her 99th birth anniversary
Amrita Pritam is most remembered for her poem, Aj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah), an elegy to the 18th century Punjabi poet, which also expresses her anguish over massacres during the partition of India.
Updated on Aug 31, 2018 08:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
A translation of Krishan Chander’s Ghaddaar that is timely, moving, vital
The tale, published in 1960 by Naya Idara, is set against the backdrop of India’s Partition in August 1947.
Updated on Aug 25, 2018 09:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Lamat R Hasan
Why Amrita Pritam and others chose not to visit Lahore after 1947
The Lahore literati remembered writers Bedi, Amrita Pritam, Krishan Chander and others whose talent was nurtured and recognised in Lahore but there was no going back for them to the city they loved and had to flee when riots broke out in 1947.
Updated on Aug 13, 2018 09:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Nirupama Dutt
Penguin Random House acquires respected Hindi publisher Hind Pocket Books
Penguin Random House India has acquired Hind Pocket Books, one of the oldest and most respected Hindi language publishers in the country.
Published on Jun 29, 2018 08:14 PM IST
Indo Asian News Service | HT Correspondent, New Delhi
Round about: Keeping Amrita Pritam’s flame burning
With Amrita Pritam’s centenary celebrations a little more than a year away, heartwarming tributes to her from fans light the way
Updated on Jun 10, 2018 11:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times, | Nirupama Dutt
I wish I could’ve done The Fault In Our Stars! Dia Mirza talks movies and saving the planet
The actor reveals her dream director, title of her autobiography and more!
Updated on Apr 28, 2018 11:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Samreen Tungekar
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