On this day, February 1, in 1976, the Kerala-born poet released her autobiography, My Story.
Kamala Das was one of the finest and truest poets of her generation.
The library, which will have most of the books authored by Das in Malayalam, will be housed in the office of Pravasi Shabdam (Expatriate Voice), a Malayalam magazine published from Pune.
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Whether in her poems in English or highly-appreciated short stories in Malayalam, Kamala had sought to expose the hypocrisies of a society living in an illusory world of pseudo morality, oblivious of the stark realities around.
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No Malayalam writer -- living or dead -- wrote as beautifully as she did. Beautiful was it in every sense of the word. Another prolific writer M T Vasudevan Nair paid rich tributes to her when he said if someone made him jealous by the mastery over language, it was Madhavikutty. Such tributes hardly came in her way for the last few years. It was rather tribulation all the way.
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She quit her career in financial services to pursue her passion for writing.
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