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"I feel a woman is most attractive when she surrenders to her man. She is incomplete without a man." averred Kamala Das shortly before her death in May, 2009. One of the most controversial and celebrated Indian authors, she combined in her writings rare honesty and sensitivity, provocation and poignancy. The Kept Woman and Other Stories explores the man-woman relationship in all its dimensions. Deprived, depraved, mysterous, mystical and exalted, each ...
An evocative account of growing up in Kerala in the 1940s. It is the Second World War and Kamala and her brother are removed from their parents home in Calcutta to the safer environs of their village in northern Kerala. At once an outsider and an integral part of her ancestral home, Kamla struggles to fathom the intricacies of class, caste and language. But surrounded by people like her adoring Ammamma, the servant Sankaran who promises to teach her the ...
This is an invaluable book for those who are interested in modern poetry and particularly, modern Indian writing in English. The Thirty-one poems in this collection are representative of the best wok of Kamala Das. Her theme is physical love; her medium, free verse. Her writing is intensely lyrical-sometimes soft and musical, sometimes with a bitter edge to it. Its unpretentious brilliance is revealed in strong yet subtle imagery, and the natural and ...