Short biography of kamala das

Open and frank expression about being a woman in India starts with Kamala Das. Kamala Suraiyya was her last assumed name after converting to Muslim from Brahmin.

Kamala das biography pdf

She started writing under the pen name of Madhavikutty but the Fandom also remembers her as Kamla Dass, Kamala Surayya, kamalasurayya and simply Ami and Suraiyya. She wrote many short stories, poems, memoirs and essays in her lifetime. Kamala Das was a bilingual writer of Malayalam and English. Kamala Das came from a good family background.

Her mother Nalapat Balamani was a well-known poet, and her father, V. Nair, was an automobile company executive and a journalist. Kamala Shifted from Kerala to Calcutta, where her father worked and where she grew up. At merely 15 years of age, she married Madhava Das many years senior to her. Thereafter she moved to Bombay now Mumbai with her husband.