Amrita Pritam’s Life and Work
This article was first published in the print edition of Manushi Journal. (Issue-10, 1982)
“MY mother never failed in the slightest degree, to honour and obey my father’s male will. But it has always
seemed to me that just as Parvati collected all the dust from her body and moulded from it the figure of her son Ganesh, so also my mother collected all the anger from her mind and poured it into my infant being, while she herself remained without a particle of anger… …When I saw the atrocities committed during the partition, I felt as if the whole of womankind had gathered together its mental anguish and moulded my soul
from it…”