Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories

Such an amazing author. Love her work. Just read Pinjar so far and am looking forward to reading the others too!

In 1956, Amrita Pritam became the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for her long poem, 'Sunehade' (Messages). In 1981, she won the Bharatiya Jnanpith for the novel 'Kagaz Te Canvas' (The Paper and the Canvas). In 1969, she was conferred with the Padma Shri and in 2004 the Padma Vibhushan. She was also awarded the highest honour conferred by the Sahitya Akademi - 'Immortals of Literature' in 2005.Written in 1950 Pinjar is the story of Hindu girl, Puro, who is abducted by a Muslim man, Rashid. Puro's parents refuse to accept her when she manages to escape from Rashid's home. Written in the backdrop of India’s partition, it is a moving story of a young girl who is first bewildered at her changed circumstances and later calmly accepts her fate and makes peace with her soul. Equally moving is the sensitive portrayal of Rashid who is torn between his love for Puro and the guilt of having abducted her.Yaatri is story about a man born under strange circumstances. Sacrificed at the altar of God because of a vow taken by his mother, the young boy grows up hating his mother. Only much later when he realizes the truth does he come to terms with his own life.The Tara edition has these two stories translated from Punjabi in English (The Skeleton and That Man) by Khushwant Singh. The cover is painting titled Self Portrait by Deepti Naval.

Such a big publishing house and it is cheating readers. The title says Pinjar and other stories. It means there are more than two stories in the book. But actually the book contains only two stories - Pinjar and The Man. This is the case of misselling and is highly deprecated. I returned the product for the same reason.

I worked on PINJAR for my research paper and Pritam has written amazing work. One should not read it from the point of view of partition or idea of women but one should read for its language which Kushwant Singh has translated.

Both the stories are amazing and it's the only publication vch has printed Amritajis translated version of Pinjar...so you have no option...its amazing

Un-putdownable stories .. mesmerizing .. brilliant .. naked , hard humans ..