Amrita Pritam, the famous woman writer and poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language was born in 1919, in gujranwala, Punjab (present day Pakistan) she was known as amrita kaur. She was the the only child of a school teacher, a poet and a scholar of Braj Bhasha, Kartar Singh Hitkari, who also edited a literary journal. Her mother died when she was eleven and after that she and…