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... Kamala Das writes with a touch of defiance : I am Indian , very brown , born in Malabar , I speak three languages , write in Two , dream in one . Don't write in English , they said , English is not your mother - tongue . Why not leave ...
... Kamala Das writes with a touch of defiance : I am Indian , very brown , born in Malabar , I speak three languages , write in Two , dream in one . Don't write in English , they said , English is not your mother - tongue . Why not leave ...
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... Das's The Night Before Us came out in 1960 , Adil Jussawalla's Land's End in 1962 , Kamala Das's Summer in Calcutta in 1965 , and A. K. Ramanujan's The Striders in 1966. Among the other poets who have been cultivating this new allusive ...
... Das's The Night Before Us came out in 1960 , Adil Jussawalla's Land's End in 1962 , Kamala Das's Summer in Calcutta in 1965 , and A. K. Ramanujan's The Striders in 1966. Among the other poets who have been cultivating this new allusive ...
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... Kamala Das's poems are fiercely honest , and there is the touch of acid in the gnarled expressions , an utter integrity in the total articulation . If evening appeared to Eliot " like a patient etherised upon a table " , night for Kamala ...
... Kamala Das's poems are fiercely honest , and there is the touch of acid in the gnarled expressions , an utter integrity in the total articulation . If evening appeared to Eliot " like a patient etherised upon a table " , night for Kamala ...
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SOUNDINGS AND MARKINGS | 12 |
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COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE | 38 |
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