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journalist and writer

Jagjit Singh Anand

1921–2015, writes in Punjabi, writer, journalist

Jagjit Singh Anand was an Indian communist activist, journalist, author, and freedom fighter. He was the editor of Nawan Zamana for more than half a century. He is known for his plain speaking on the opportunism of the Akalis,, the Congress, and the terrorists during the Punjab Crisis in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Anand countered death threats defiantly: “I will not be cowed down by death threats and attempts on my life by the extremists and I will uphold the freedom of the press at all costs.”

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Also writing in Punjabi

Amrita Pritam

1919–2005novelist, poet, and essayist (in Hindi and Punjabi languages) (1919–2005)