She once claimed that "poetry does not sell in this country ", but her forthright columns, which sounded off on everything from women's issues and child care to politics, were popular.ĭas' first book of poetry, Summer In Calcutta was a breath of fresh air in Indian English poetry. She was noted for her many Malayalam short stories as well as many poems written in English. Calcutta in the 1960s was a tumultous time for the arts, and Kamala Das was one of the many voices that came up and started appearing in cult anthologies along with a generation of Indian English poets. Her love of poetry began at an early age through the influence of her great uncle, Nalappatt Narayana Menon, a prominent writer.Īt the age of 15, she got married to bank officer Madhava Das, who encouraged her writing interests, and she started writing and publishing both in English and in Malayalam. Like her mother, Kamala Das also excelled in writing. She spent her childhood between Calcutta, where her father was employed as a senior officer in the Walford Transport Company that sold Bentley and Rolls Royce automobiles, and the Nalappatt ancestral home in Punnayurkulam.
Nair, a former managing editor of the widely-circulated Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi, and Nalappatt Balamani Amma, a renowned Malayali poetess. Kamala Das was born in Punnayurkulam, Thrissur District in Kerala, on March 31, 1934, to V. On, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune, but has earned considerable respect in recent years. Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the fiery poems and explicit autobiography. Kamala Surayya / Suraiyya formerly known as Kamala Das, (also known as Kamala Madhavikutty, pen name was Madhavikutty) was a major Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India.
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