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i feel pity and ashamed of myself.all i know about kamala suryya is the controversial religion conversion.Her death news was quite a shock to my parents which i found very less important.but browsing across about this poet and writer i feel i am doing injustice to my conscience,i am a great of fan of many non inidan and many non keralities writers.
Her death taught me lessons.
A brief History :
India's foremost poetess Kamala Das born on March 31, 1934 at Punnayurkulam in the Malabar area of Kerala.
daughter of V.M.Nair and well-known Malayalam poetess Balamaniyamma.
She married Madhava Das at the tender age of fourteen. When Kama das wanted to initiate writing, her husband supported her decision. There she started to write about her nostalgic feelings and hidden feelings.
Kamala Das' first poetry collection Summer in Calcutta promised the rise of a revolutionary woman poet in India.
Her poems like An Introduction, The Descendants,Alphabet of Lust andOnly The Soul Knows How To Sing were open voices of restricted women in an orthodox society.
Her autobiography My Story, published in 1976 put her on the centre of controversies. When this confessional has been translated to more than 15 languages, Indian critics accused for spreading the idea of unmarital relationships.
Kamala Das took a controversial step in 1999, as she converted from Hinduism to Islam in 1999. She recently left her native Kerala to settle her life in with youngest son Jayaurya.
Kamala Das was short listed for Nobel prize for literature in 1984 Apart from that she received many awards for her literary contributions like Asian Poetry Prize, Kent Award for English Writing from Asian Countries, Asan World Prize, Sahitya Academy Award and Kerala Sahitya Academy Award etc. Her readers are anticipating more works from the pen of this gifted writer.
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