Kamala Das: Her Concerns
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One cannot think of a better way of introducing the concerns of Kamala Das- than by, quoting from her autobiography - My Story. “Poets, even the most significant of them are different from other people. They cannot close their shops like shop men and return home. Their shop is their mind and as long as they carry it with them; they feel the pressure and the torment.” (MS, 165). Reading Kamala Das’s works have been like journeying through a land that has its share of flood and famine, of lush green gardens and cold graves and scorching sun and rain bow skies, such is the harvest of thought in her work. Her works take leap from love to life, to death with the adeptness of an ace sprinter and the peculiar charm lies in how she manages love and life with the same intensity that she employs to celebrate them.
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