Kamala Surayya

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Kamala Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), best known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian English poet as well as a well-known Malayalam author from Kerala, India.

Her Kerala success is primarily based on her short stories and autobiography, though her English debut, published under the name Kamala Dash, is well-known for the poems and detailed autobiography.

She was also a widely read columnist and wrote on a variety of topics, including women's rights, child care, and politics, among other things. Her open and transparent treatment of female sexuality, without any sense of shame, gave her authorship and renewed hope after freedom, but also distinguished her as a heroote in her time.

She died at a hospital in Pune on May 31, 2009. She was 75 years old at the time.

Early life & Childhood

On March 31, 1934, Kamala Das was born in Punnayur, Ponnani taluk, Kerala, India's present-day Thrissur district, and Nalapat Balamani Amma, a well-known Malayali poet.

She spent her childhood in Punnayurkulam, Calcutta, where her father was employed as a senior officer in Bentley and Rolls Royce, and Nalapat's ancestral home in Calcutta.

Kamala Dashon also excelled in writing, as her mother, Balamani Amma. Nalapat Narayana Menon, a well-known writer, began her love of poetry at an early age by the influence of her great uncle, Nalapat Narayana Menon, a well-known writer.

Madhav Das, a retired bank officer who encouraged her writing abilities, and she began writing and publishing both in English and in Malayalam at the age of 15. The 1960s in Calcutta was a turbulent period for the arts, and Kamala Das was one of the many voices that rose and began to appear in cult anthologies, as well as a generation of Indian English poets. For all six of her published poetry collections, she chose English.

Personal life

At the age of 15, Kamala married Madhav Das. M D Nalapat, Chinen Das, and Jayasurya Das were three sons of the family. After 43 years of marriage, her husband, who happened to be bisexual later on in their marriage, died in 1992. Madhav Das Nalapat, her eldest son, is married to Princess Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi (daughter of Princess Pooyam Thirunal Gouri Parvati Bayi and Sri Chembrol Raja Varma Avargal) from the Travancore Royal House. He is the UNESCO Peace Chair and a geopolitics researcher at Manipal University. He had been a resident editor of The Times of India. Kamala Surayya converted to Islam in 1999 and announced that she planned to marry her Muslim lover, but she never remarried.

She died at a hospital in Pune on May 31 after a long battle with pneumonia. Her body was taken to Kerala, India's home state. She was honoured with full state recognition at the Palayam Juma Masjid in Thiruvananthapuram.

Despite being barely active before, she formed Lok Seva Party, a national political party aimed at the promotion of so-called secularism and providing asylum to orphanaged mothers. She unsuccessfully ran in the Indian Parliament elections in 1984.

She was born in a conservative Hindu Nair (Nalapat) family with royal ancestry. At the age of 65, she converted to Islam on December 11, 1999, adopting the name Kamala Surayya.

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Literary career

She is best known for her many Malayalam short stories as well as poems in English. Das was also a syndicated columnist. "poetry does not sell in this country [India], she said once], but her forthright columns, which sounded off on anything from women's rights to politics, were huge. Das was a confessional poet whose poems were often compared to Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell's.

Summer in Calcutta, Kamala Das' first book of poetry, was a breath of fresh air in Indian English poetry. She wrote mainly about passion, betrayal, and the subsequent anguish. At a time when Indian poets were still ruled by "19th-century diction, emotion, and romantic love," Das abandoned the certainties offered by an archaic, somewhat sterile, aestheticism for an independence of mind and body.

The Descendants' second book of poetry was even more direct, urging women to:

Give him what makes you woman, the stench of long hair, the musk of sweat between the breasts, the sweet shock of menstrual blood, and all your Endless female hungers.

This directness of her voice led to comparisons with Marguerite Duras and Sylvia Plath. My Story, a 42-year-old woman, was published in Malayalam (titled Ente Katha) and later translated into English. She confessed later that a large portion of the autobiography had fictional elements.

"An Introduction" is a bold poem in which Das describes her femininity, uniqueness, and realistic attitudes toward men. This autobiographical poem is published in the colloquial style. In a confident way, she articulates her feelings and thoughts. She discovers her identity and acknowledges that every woman must have a voice in this male-dominated culture. The poet longs for love, which is the product of her loneliness and empatia.

The poem "A Hot Noon in Malabar" is about the atmosphere and location of a town in Malabar. The heat, smoke, and buzz can make people uncomfortable, but she enjoys it. She longs for the hot noon in Malabar because she associates it with the wild men, wild thoughts, and wild love. It's a torture for her to live far away from Malabar.

"My Mother at Sixty-Six" describes the irony in a mother-daughter relationship, as well as the concepts of aging, growing-up, divorce, and love. "Dance of Eunuchs" is another fine poem in which Das sympathizes with eunuchs. It has an autobiographical tone. In the heat of the sun, the eunuchs dance. The feminine delicacy is shown by their costumes, makeup, and ardent devotion with which they dance. Their outward appearance and jubilation are compared to their inward sadness. In fact, there is no joy in their hearts, and they can't even think of happiness. Dass realizes that her life is meaningless in the poem "A Request." She is alone and her colorless life is based on crumbling patterns.

Kamala Dass is best known for her bold and frank expression. An underlying obsession with passion and the use of confession are two of her poetry's most characteristic elements. Her poetry is based on liberty, love, and security. She wrote on a variety of subjects, often disparate, such as the tale of a poor old servant, or the sexual habits of upper-middle-class women in the ghetto. Pakshiyude Manam, Neypayasam, Thanuppu, and Chandana Marangal are three of her best-known stories. She wrote a few books, one of which, Neermathalam Pootha Kalam, was applauded by the general readers as well as, the critics, stands out.

She travelled extensively to read poetry at University of Bonn, University of Bonn, and University of Duisburg universities, as well as the Adelaide Writer's Festival, University of Kingston, Jamaica, Singapore, and South Bank Festival (Montreal, Canada). Her works are available in French, Spanish, Russian, German, and Japanese.

She has served as Vice-chairperson in Kerala's State Ministry, chairperson of the Kerala Children's Film Society, editor of Poet magazine, and poet editor of Illustrated Weekly of India.

Despite being occasionaly seen as an attention grabber in her early years, she is now considered one of India's most influential influences on English poetry. The Times referred to her as "the mother of modern English Indian poetry" in 2009.

Her last book, The Kept Woman and Other Stories, was published posthumously, and it included a translation of her short stories. Kamala Dass is best known for her tumultuous writings in which she openly addresses the woman's ban. She is known for her insurgent resistance to patriarchal traditions.

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