"I am sinner, I am saint. I am the beloved and the betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no aches which are not yours. I too call myself I"
- Kamala das
Kamala Das ( Madhavikutty-pen name) is the one of the prominent feminist voices from kerala and she has her unique confessional style of writing which made her "the Mother Of Modern English Poetry ". She faces many difficulties from our society because her writing consist of vivid descriptions of mentruation, puberty, love, lust, lesbian encounters , child marraige, infidelity and physical intimacy while our society is busy molding a girls mind to a prefect to be a wife for someone. But with the power of her words and pen as a weapon she fight it all with a beautiful smile on her face. Yeah.. She is an inspiration to girls like me and her works are mostly liked by girls because its exactly what we felt , what we wanna say and what we wanna do...