KAMLA DAS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY
B. Madhavi
Research Scholar, Department of English, CCS University, Meerut, India
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Kamla Das, one of the outstanding poets of India, writing in English and Malayalam, was born on March 31, 1934, in Malabar in Kerala. Influenced by her uncle Nalapatta Narayan Menon, a prominent writer, she began writing poetry at an early age. A trailblazer in the Indian English poetry, she is the first Indian woman writing in English who openly talks about the sexual desires and experiences of Indian women. She left the safe sphere of writing about adolescent, sacrificial, unrequited love. She claims that poetry is "the April sun squeezed like an orange juice," the reader's mind is heated by the heat. Her poetry's strength is its sensitivity. UK cheap super clone watches with high quality for men and women online. Where can you buy cheap breitling replica watches UK? Swiss fake Breitling online store can be a good choice.
Keywords:
Kamla Das; poet; Summer In Calcutta
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