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Kamala Das Poems
- An Introduction I don't know politics but I know the ...
- My Grandmother's House There is a house now far away where ...
- The Looking Glass Getting a man to love you is easy Only be ...
- Words All round me are words, and words and words, They grow...
- In Love O what does the burning mouth Of sun, burning in ...
- The Old Playhouse You planned to tame a swallow, to hold ...
- Summer In Calcutta What is this drink but The April sun, ...
Kamala Surayya / Suraiyya formerly known as Kamala Das , (also known as Kamala Madhavikutty, pen name was Madhavikutty) was a major Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the fiery poems and explicit autobiography.
Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation. On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune, but has earned ... more »
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An Introduction
I don't know politics but I know the names
Of those in power, and can repeat them like
Days of week, or names of months, beginning with Nehru.
I amIndian, very brown, born inMalabar,
I speak three languages, write in
Two, dream in one.
Don't write in English, they said, English is
Not your mother-tongue. Why not leave
Me alone, critics, friends, visiting cousins,
Every one of you? Why not let me speak in
Any language I like? The language I speak,
Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernesses
All mine, mine alone.
It is half English, halfIndian, funny ...
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please upload the stanza wise explanation of the poems naani, a hoynoon in malabar and middle age.
please upload the poem naani
please upload the poem middle age
Pls upload the wild bougnvilla poem by kamla das.......
Did you know the poem “flog“ written by kamaladas
super poet mam thank u for this poem
By the way, hysteria has been ruled out as a formally diagnosable disorder; it was a creation of ancient, misogynistic, unscientific psychology. Also, Freud has been always criticized for his biased judgement to women; he was yet another misogynist who saw men as the ideal. (Scientifically respected psychology don't discriminate and also, the find proper data to support their studies. Freud considered cases such that they justified his theories) . Fin. :)
Some men are simply TERRIFIED of women taking ownership of their own body, because, if so, these men can not hold the power of owning these women anymore.