 Amrita Pritam is the goddess of defiance. A rebel and a recalcitrant, even a revolutionary. Her works, especially the poetry, tempts the reader to break off the existential contrarieties and contradictions of life. Yet one is resisted from administering his/her thought-process to transform the society.
Like the mirror, her principal task was to reflect the society as it subsisted with stink and flavour; good and bad. In truth, it was her creative talent wrought up with the twinge of bereavement that came of age during the dark days of the Partition of Punjab. Small wonder then, that one of the most beautifully weird poems ever written by Amrita was the New Heer or Aankhaan Waris Shah Nul which was addressed "to the author of the Punjabi romantic epic of immortal love".
Equally astounding is her rich literary corpus --she had published 75 books -of which thee are 28 novels, 18 volumes of verse, five short stories and 16 miscellaneous prose. Besides, she also edited Punjabi literary journal Nagmani. Two of her novels Dharti Sagar te Sippiyan (1965) and Unah Di Kahani (1976) have been made into her films entitled "Kadambari" and "Daaku" for which she even composed songs.
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