Apart from her well-known novels, renowned Punjabi author Ajeet Cour has also written profiles of some of Punjab’s most iconic personalities who have shaped India’s social, political, cultural, and literary soul. These are now available in English, in Sushmindar Jeet Kaur’s translation. In The Blue Potter: The Creative Genius of Punjab [Aleph Book Company], the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author regales us with unrecorded, unheard and undisclosed stories of the creative legends of her time with signature candour and insight.
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The personalities include Amrita Pritam, Khushwant Singh, VP Singh (not a Punjabi, though), Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Kartar Singh Duggal, Mohinder Singh Randhawa, Padma Sachdev and Jagjit Singh.
Here is an excerpt from this collection, from a long profile of Krishna Sobti, one of the greatest Hindi authors of our times:
Daughter of the Chenab
Krishna Sobti is one in a million.
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