Writers

Khushwant Singh

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Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh was born in Hadali District Khushab, Punjab (which now lies in Pakistan), in a Sikh family. His father, Sir Sobha Singh (builder), was a prominent builder in Lutyens’ Delhi. His uncle Sardar Ujjal Singh (1895–1983) was Ex. Governor of Punjab & Tamil Nadu. He was educated at Modern School, New Delhi, Government College, Lahore, St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and King’s College London, before reading for the Bar at the Inner Temple. Khushwant…

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Amrita Pritam

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Amrita Pritam

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…

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