Biography of author kamala das poems
Kamala das!
Biography of author kamala das poems
Kamala Das – Her Literary Life and Her Works
Her Life
Born on March 31, 1934, in Malabar, Kerala, Kamala Das’ love of poetry was ignited by watching her great uncle Nalapat Narayana Menon, a prominent writer of his time.
She would watch him work all day and felt that his life was one of bliss as he was able to live out his life by writing all the time. The poetry of her mother, Nalapat Balamani Amma, as well as the sacred writing of the Nairs, a matriarchal community of Kerala, also influenced her.
Das spent her childhood between Calcutta where her father was employed and the ancestral Nalapat home in Kerala.
Given private tutoring till the age of fifteen and then married at a young age, she found great support for her literary inclinations in her husband. K. Madhava Das, who always felt proud of her achievements in spite of all the controversy that surrounded some of her writing.
Having spoken about her sexual experiences and dissatisfaction with a husband who was years older