Kamala Das

The Compelling Autobiography of the Most Contreversial Indian Writer

My Story

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, Kamala 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 Crow-Language, And Valli Who Tells Her Stories Of Yakshis Whose Breasts Are As Big As Jackfruits, Kamala Soon Discovers The Joys Of Growing Up As The Centre Of Everyone S Universe. As Calcutta Fades From Her Mind Like An Old Dream, While The Thudding Of The Drums At The Para Festival, The Roar Of The Velichappadu As He Becomes Possessed And The Songs Of The Parayankaali Dancers Become Absolute Realities Of Life.

A Memoir

A Childhood In Malabar

Padmavati the Harlot and Other Stories

Noval (Rajatajubili granthavali)

Amavasi

Sandal Trees

Meena Alexander

Anna Sujatha Mathai

The poetry of seven contemporary poets from Kerala (1934 - present), selected and edited by Gopikrishnan Kottoor is presented in this beautiful poetry anthology.LIVING POETRYThe fecundities of native language, culture, climate, topography, among myriad other indigenous resources precipitate the poetryscape of the Indian poet writing in English.More and more anthologies of the kind will help bring out the luxuriant variants of poetry from India that the world is presently looking at. Ventures such as this will go miles to further our poetry in English while helping to do away with threats from 'forces of standardization' as Sri K. Satchidanandan rightly observes.

English Poetry from Kerala, Seven Contemporary Poets: A Poetry Anthology

Living Poetry

Kamalā Sur̲ayya

Collection of articles from the columns of Kamala Das.

The Path of the Columnist

La mia storia

A Doll for the Child Prostitute

”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, mysterious, mystical and exalted, each character, culled from experience and observation, is an incisive study of love, lust and longing.

The kept woman and other stories

Alphabet of Lust

First published in Malayalam in 1973, My Story, Kamala Das' sensational autobiography, shocked readers with its total disregard for mindless conventions and its fearless articulation of a subject still considered taboo. Depicting the author's intensely personal experiences in her passage to womanhood and shedding light on the hypocrisies that informed traditional society, this memoir was far ahead of its time and is now acknowledged as a bona fide masterpiece.

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