An analysis of Kamala Das’s Autobiography Kamala das is an Indian author. She is also known as kamala Suraiya. The Indian poetess was born on March 31, 1934. She was born in Punnayurkulam, Thrissur District in Kerala. She is the daughter of V. M. Nair and Nalapat Balamani Amma. Her father was a managing director of Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi. Her mother was a renowned Malayali poetess. She spent her childhood days in Calcutta and Punnayurkulam. Her mother was a writer and Kamala was also inspired by her mother and loved writing. She was born into a conservative Hindu Nair. She composes in English and Malayalam which is her native language. She became famous in kerala because of her writings. She wrote short stories and autobiography. She is …show more content…
She had only night time left for her to write and express her feelings and expressions. She started writing in the night when the family are sleeping and that is only time when she is free and is able to write her thoughts on the sheet of paper. She has a kitchen table where she cuts vegetables in the morning. She used to first wash all the plates that were kept on the kitchen table for washing and then she starts typing. Kamala as a wife had many responsibilities and duties but her passion did not become an obstacle but the weight of responsibility increased on her. She fell ill because of the hectic schedule she was going through in order to pursue her passion but she faced every obstacle in a positive way and she took her illness as a step ahead for her success. When she was ill she got more time at home and eventually got more time to …show more content…
The book was first published in Malayalam in 1973. The was titled as Ente Katha in Malayalam. The revised edition was published in 1988 by the publisher Harper Collins in English. When this book came out the Indian society was shocked at the outspoken women who talks freely about her extramarital affairs and the lesbian crushes in teenage. This book shows how kamala searched for love which she was not able to get through her marriage. She searched for true love in her entire life but she could not find it. This is the first book by the Indian English writer which displays the openness and frank confessions of sexual needs of a women writer. She illustrates and explores the struggle of women writers for power. She is younger than her husband. She is not much educated but her literary family background ceases the matter. In the book she displays her boring life and the physical affairs she has with the men outside her marriage. She is considered to be the most daring and controversial poet. She wanted to free
Secondly, DiYanni states that in a short story “Its characters are recognizably human, and they are motivated by identifiable social and psychological forces.” (DiYanni 47). In other words, the modern realistic short story has characters with flaws, difficulties, and short-comings; their motivations also come from things that make sense to humans living in a specific society, especially a society of the written time period.
Jhumpa Lahiri was born on July 11, 1967. She has the Bengali background by her parentage. She is interested in learning various languages, which she mentioned in her recent work, “In Other Words”. She possessed a number of awards to her credit in the literary field. She is a leading diasporic writer holds a distinctive place in the literary world. Her short stories represent the experiences of the various set of people both in India and America. Most of the research articles on Lahiri focused only on the viewpoint of feminism, culture and gender studies, thematic approach etc. “The narrative is not the story itself but rather the telling of the story” (miamioh.edu). According to the above saying, Lahiri’s way of storytelling is something related to her personal touch. Since she too is an immigrant she perfectly explicit the feelings in her narratives. This research paper focuses her "A Real Durwan" one of the short stories in her famous collection "Interpreter of Maladies" in narratological point of view by
Over the course of the novel, The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, Gogol is constantly moving, and by the time he is in his late twenties, he has already lived in five different homes, while his mother, Ashima has lived in only five houses her entire life. Each time Gogol moves, he travels farther away from his childhood home on Pemberton Road, symbolizing his search for identity and his desire to further himself from his family and Bengali culture. Alternatively, Ashima’s change of homes happens in order to become closer to family, representing her kinship with Bengali culture. Ashima has always had difficulty with doing things on her own, but by the end of the story she ultimately decides to travel around both India and the States without a real home as a result of the evolution of her independence and the breaking of her boundaries; in contrast, Gogol finally realizes that he has always stayed close to home, despite his yearning for escape, and settles into his newly discovered identity - the one that he possessed all along.
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“Who am I?” It is the question every person will have to face in life. If that question is ever truly answered is another subject. However, it does lead to another intriguing question: why am I this way? Many have dove into the depths of this matter to try and establish the correlation between attaining an identity and the reason people end up with that said identity. There is a vast majority of subjects that people have said influence a person’s identity. However, James Baldwin in “Stranger in the Village,” and Jhumpa Lahiri in “My Two Lives,” focus on addressing, in their writing, the correlation between identity and culture. The examinations of these two essays puts forth key points that support the idea that identity and culture do affect
While growing up with my two sisters, me being the oldest one, Sophia, who is the second oldest and Adriana the smallest one out of us three. Even though, we have grown up side by side, share the same parents and live under the same roof. Each and every one of us have different life experience.
Moni Mohsin is a famous columnist and a freelance writer who originally belongs to Lahore, Pakistan. Her current writings are published by several renowned publications, one even owned by her own sister here in Pakistan, Jugnu Mohsin, called ‘Friday Times’, and others being; The Guardian, The Nation, The times of India, and The New York Times (Emirateslitfest). Her first two novels, The End of Innocence and Duty Free, are both prize winning pieces of work (Emirateslitfest). The former novel is based on a sensitive and astounding story centered in west Punjab during the unstable times of Pakistan during the 1970’s (Mukherjee), while latter is more of a satirical and humorous writing based on a woman who helps her cousin to find him a suitable wife (Mohsin, Google books). Moni belongs to a liberal and educated family background. During the General Zia-ul-Haq's dictatorship, as the political and social environment became a bit religiously extreme, she and her family felt uneasy during that time (Lau). This might be the reason why she has critiqued in so much depth over the Pakistan’s politics and Pakistan’s elite class, in her journal- The Diary of a Social Butterfly. The journal is satirical commentary through the perspective of a socialite. It is filled with humor, tongue in cheek tone and wit which gives the reader fits of laughter. Moni has maintained periodicity while presenting the real events that occurred from 2000 to 2008. Most prominent thing about this writing is the malapropistic voice of the protagonist which maintains the humor even while presenting the sad and awful events in the journal. Also there is use of both English and Urdu language which makes the writing unique and interesting. However in her writing the autho...
The Hidden Side of the Influential Leader, Gandhi. Once stated, “Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside” (____). And so did the great and unforgettable leader, Mahatma Gandhi. Who was the real father of the Indian nation?
Bhartee Mukherjee, one of most prominent post- colonial writer in Indian Literature. Her works are based on the migration due to circumstances, the status of new immigrants and feeling of alienation as well as Indian women and their struggle. Her own struggle as an immigrant from India to U.S. and Canada laid her to write up on stories of immigration. Her such of work is The Tiger’s Daughter (1972) is a story of a young girl Tara who ventures back to India after many years of being away to return to poverty and chaos.
Lakshmi C.S. The Face behind the mask : Women in Tamil literature, Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division ,1984.
While studying the Hindu gods and goddesses, there are six main deities that Hindus worship: Brahma, Saraswati, Vishnu, Lakshmi, Shiva, and Parvati. However, while learning about these six main figures, one of them stands out to be somewhat less important, or simply not as much discussed as the others. That particular goddess would be Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of music, arts, and knowledge. The reason she is less prominent is simple, she is not as dominant – as in the male gods - or as intimidating as the others. To elaborate, according to the website Broom Closet’s article entitled “Saraswati: goddess of Knowledge, Wisdom, and Art”, she is the third member of the Hindu triple goddesses which consist of Lakshmi, Kali, and Saraswati (1). The other two members of this group are extremely terrifying to look at, while Saraswati is portrayed as peaceful and pure. Therefore, the question is that if she is such an underdog goddess, why do people worship her? By delving into her history, representations, and some of her stories, the answer to this question will become quite clear.
I lived in India for 15 years, since birth. I am not surprised that I was brought up in a rigid country. I was born in Patiala, a city of Punjab which is usually known for its antiqueness. Though I was born in Patiala, my upbringing was done in another town close to my birth city. My town was small but had a miscellany of people. One could find every kind of person in there. The first few years were not that hard; I used to go to school and then come back home. I enjoyed my life’s first few years but as it known that a coin has two sides my life was not totally a “Party all night”. I always had a bad gall bladder; it remained filled with urine all the time. My being shy always serves a great disadvantage for me. I had a hard time asking my teachers to use restrooms in case of urination. A teacher is not an omniscient who would know when I have to go to loosen myself. It would not be a surprise if I say I did it in my skirt all the time. Yes, I used to do that often and usually become a trouble maker for my teacher and the child care ladies who had to clean me. “She is a kid.” That us...
Bama, the Tamil Dalit woman writer, she wrote Karukku her autobiographical novel published in 1992, presents the text as a double-edged sword before the reader. Hailed as the first Dalit woman writer in India Bama’s Karukku is the first autobiography of its kind in Tamil Dalit Literature. Karukku is the first ever autobiography of a Tamil Christian Dalit woman. It is an eye-opener for those who are unaware of the discriminations that Dalits face, the oppression of religious institutions, and Bama’s painful journey to arrive at solutions for problems that plague her community.
The tone of Indian Education started off as bitter and ends as proud. At the beginning, he constantly mentions how he was bullied during school. “They pushed me down, buried me in the snow until I couldn’t breathe, thought I’d never breathe again” (DiYanni 230). This radiates a bitter and defeated type of tone. Also, he mentions how he was abused by higher figures. “But all I learned was that gravity can be painful” (DiYanni 231). Toward the end, the story shifts to more of a proud and humble tone. For example, the author does well in sports and in school. During the ninth grade, “after a basketball game in an overheated gym where I had scored twenty-seven points and pulled down thirteen rebounds” (DiYanni 233). Also, during graduation,
The exposure of first book won her the companionship from the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts. Anita Nair’s first novel Better Man in 2000 also published in Europe and United States. Her second novel Ladies Coupe in 2001 also brings her the great fame and name. It bought her the great success among the critics. In 2002 Ladies Coupe was elected as one among the best five novels in India and it was translated in twenty five languages around the world. She had published collection of poem Malabar Mind in 2002 and she also edited Where the Rain is Born – Writings about Kerala in 2003. She has written book for children on myths and legend titled The Puffin Book of Myths and Legends in