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Amrita Pritam’s ‘Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu’: Partition, Grief and Punjabi Memory

Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi poem “Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu” is a landmark literary response to the Partition of 1947. Addressing the eighteenth-century Punjabi poet Waris Shah, remembered for his tragic love narrative Heer Ranjha, Pritam turns a predecessor into a witness to Punjab’s suffering. This article discusses the poem’s central gestures and historical force without reproducing the complete t…

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Poetry of India 14/100: Amrita Pritam’s “Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu” and the Wound of Partition

Part 14 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through India’s poetic heritage. Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi poem “Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu” is one of the most powerful literary responses to the violence and displacement of the 1947 Partition. The speaker addresses the eighteenth-century Punjabi poet Waris Shah, associated with the tragic love story of Heer and Ranjha, and asks him to rise and witnes…

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