Raseedi Ticket- Amrita Preetam

Raseedi Ticket (The Revenue Stamp), written by the celebrated Padma Vibhushan and Jnanpith Award-winning author Amrita Pritam, is one of the most iconic, candid, and courageous autobiographies in modern Indian literature.

The title carries a famous origin story: when fellow writer Khushwant Singh remarked that her life was so small and brief it could easily fit on the back of a revenue stamp, Amrita Pritam embraced the comment and named her life’s story Raseedi Ticket.

In this deeply moving and poetic memoir, Pritam speaks with unreserved honesty about her upbringing, her trauma through the Partition of India, her literary journeys, and her personal struggles against societal and patriarchal constraints. She intimately reflects on her creative inspirations, as well as her profound relationships with famous figures like Sahir Ludhianvi and Imroz. Written with raw grace and poetic courage, Raseedi Ticket remains a revolutionary account of a woman writer defining her own destiny.