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HUMANISTIC SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES IN KAMALA DAS’S POEM:

RELATIONSHIPS AND REACTION

R. PRIGYA

Ph.D., Scholar

Department of English, Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies

(Vels University)

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. [email protected]

Dr. P. SURESH

Research Supervisor & Associate Professor

Department of English,

Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies

(Vels University),

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

The historical backdrop of humanism is that of a consistent exertion with respect to man to make up for

himself as one made in the picture of God or as an animal of rich probability an undertaking that is

coordinated towards making man human in its most thorough sense. In every one of its stages or

varieties, humanism has needed to figure with powers or factors to have been subversive of its trademark

push towards the improvement of the human condition. Along these lines, Kamala Das is a bilingual poet

who has composed both in Malayalam and English. As an Indian English writer and as a woman's

activist, she has secured a huge place in the greater part of the treasures of English writing. She voices the

agonies and weights of a normal Indian lady who is enduring behind the thick cover of preservationist

conventions and traditions. She attests that ladies, including her, are casualties of sexual mortification

under the male mastery. Her works support a beam of expectation in the hearts of ladies smothered under

male control. Kamala Das communicates her emotions and encounters honestly through her lyrics. Her

works are portrayed by an abnormal state of truthfulness and respectability.

Keywords: Humanism, English artists, Parochialism, Physical love, Conventional culture, PEN, humankind,

Social perspectives, love, lust, sexual mortification, mayhem,

INTRODUCTION

Humanism has been so firmly related to the temper and method of thought of contemporary man. Our

age might be viewed as a period of humanism. Current science has weaved all nations into a group of

countries. They made noninterference and parochialism propensities that may spell universals demolish.

What's more, no present rationality can bear to overlook the significant signs of Man as key to all esteems

and plans of things. This clarifies the domination of humanism as a reasoning of contemporary

humankind.

The historical backdrop of humanist reasoning is long and included, and the term 'humanism' keeps on

engaging a few and different implications. The sources of humanism in the West are in the Hellenic idea

which has prompted "the high valuation of the potential outcomes in men" (G.B. Gupta 2). The most

punctual humanists were sophists, the savants who diverted their consideration from ontological and

cosmological issues to the issues of Man and his lead and along these lines declared the inherent signs of

Man. The vast majority of the humanists begin with no less than an implication to Protagoras whose

famous, if disputable, proclamation, "Man is the measure of all things"( Stace, W.T., 123.), has been

influential to the point that it has effectively influenced a few commentators to give the label of Neo-

Protagoreanism to humanism. Basically deciphered, the decree concedes to no qualification amongst

sense and reason. Tactile observation is the main trial of truth and reason is discounted of court. Thus,

there remains not at all like target truth. What is consistent with me is consistent with me and what is

consistent with you is consistent with you. This unavoidably brings about only stark rebellion and

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express mayhem, Mr. Stace tries to give a worthy understanding: "Man is the measure of all things"(

Stace, W.T., 123.); impressions, driving forces, unreasonable partialities, self-will, negligible un-

conventionalities, peculiarities, weaknesses, and likes. Corliss Lamont, one of the main types of

Naturalistic humanism, compresses his perspective in this way:

Humanism is the view-point that man has but one life to lead and should make the most of it in

terms of creative work and happiness; that human happiness is its own justification and requires

no sanction or support from super-natural sources; that in any case the super-natural, usually

conceived of in the form of heavenly gods or immortal heavens, does not exist; and that human

beings, using their own intelligence and co-operating liberally with one another, can build an

enduring citadel of peace and beauty upon this earth.( Lamont, 21 ).

Kamala Das is one of the few most vital living English artists in India is very nearly a basic typical

Though Das' verse is not effectively accessible for scholarly elucidations, yet taking it up to explore work

is an energizing assignment, especially when she has been differently deciphered/misjudged attributable

to her shameless tone of outrage and brutality in communicating the female concerns, and requests for

ladylike flexibilities and decisions. For every single such peruser whose perusing propensities are

absorbed the time of delegate compositions, a wide range of proposals through sensitive motions of

dialect and life wind up bewildering matters.

While the essayist means to demonstrate, simply show towards a specific conceptual pith of life, the

peruser futile looks for a strict mark for every single such statement. Gone are the periods of declarations.

Just we have signs of inward tensions to be emptied through a similar old messed up dialect supported by

a bungled culture. Controlling the nuances of dialect with the end goal of imaginative aptitude is the

extraordinary benefit of the innovative scholars. Kamala Das, for whom English is a moment dialect,

could gain for herself a top-notch imaginative aptitude in dealing with English dialect for her fortunate

lovely reason. Since the whole obvious stories of societies and social orders are misleading statements

wonderfully manufactured into plasticized aspects of dialect, every bit of relevant information, as and

when articulated, as in Kamala Das, turns into not withstandable actuality that undermines the

superstructure, and pulls down the multistoried chateaus based on depressing plinths or no plinths by any

stretch of the imagination.

Kamala Das had grabbed the vast majority of the forward-looking thoughts concerning ladies' freedom

from the European vanguard women's activist authors like Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf.

Seeing that her verse ends its life-blood from the European women's activist freedom development, there

is a significant point, that too a dire one, in what all she talks and babbles ragingly like a motivated

schizophrenic in actuality her schizophrenia is not a mental distortion. Then again, affirmed her lovely

topics into the most earnest issues that required well-suited resolutions and answers. In her verse, she

untiringly contends that there is an awesome requirement for a humanistic and refined transformation in

the demeanors and attitudes of men towards their ladies, and that lone such an understanding

environment can eventually clear path for a superior condition of satisfaction for humankind later on.

Subsequently, the opportunity has already come and gone an out and out various readership was

developed for Kamala Das' verse, which requests a genuine and thoughtful endeavor with respect to the

peruser to expect upon himself the on-screen character's trunk of inside lover in being unified with her

unpretentious and lively work of lady's mind.

Kamala Das An endeavor has been made to investigate and reveal the beautiful self, battling between the

creaturely demeanors of natural life and the unattainable supernatural statures. Lovely accumulations of

Kamala Das in English are Summer in Calcutta, The Descendants, The Old Playhouse and alternate

Poems and Only the Soul Knows How to Sing. From the purpose of scholarly esteems, women's activist

belief system and humanistic Values, these accumulations are exceptionally striking. Being confession

booth in nature, these books interest, and entrance inquisitive perusers. As indicated by S. D. Sharma,

'she admits various things, solely identified with her own particular self, self as a lady with her solid

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ladylike sensibilities, self as a man with capable proclivities and animosities, impulses and impulse

whams'.

Verse of Kamala Das is in a confession booth shape. Confession booth verse focuses on the individual

and the practical encounters of the writers themselves. It voices the artist's internal emotions, so it might

be a self-portraying record of the writer. The writer examinations the circumstance in the light of his or

her environment and encounters, communicating her own particular sentiments and encounters to

unburden the brain from forceful feelings, for example, disappointment, torment and torment managing

even suicide and demise. Verse of Kamala Das bears every one of these attributes of adoration desire

dissatisfactions. There is a candid and frank self-examination. For instance, she transparently states this

in her sonnet Composition. By 'Strip prodding' her brain, she should expel, give a free raced to her point

of view, and offer her sentiments with the perusers, thoroughly free from any restriction or restraint. By

admitting and by peeling off her layers, she achieves near the spirit. This ballad is very enthusiastic,

loaded down with a few self-portraying bits of knowledge and records. She doesn't waver to admit her

disappointment and said that she felt her age and her uselessness in her poem.

Verse of Kamala Das gives a record of her unfulfilled wants and dissatisfactions. She tests profound into

her own particular heart to get her normal sentiments and empties it out into verse. E. V. Ramakrishnan

profoundly awed by her straight to the point and regular articulations call attention to that she manages

private mortifications and sufferings, which are the stock subject of confession booth verse. Anisur

Rahman, appropriately remarks that her verse reflects her life in all its exposure, a free shape, shaking all

the built-up to standards of life and workmanship. A large number of her sonnets stand up her hatred,

dissatisfaction, disillusionment and disappointment in affection. She obviously draws out her

hopelessness in the accompanying lines:

Too early the autumn sights

Have come, too soon my lips

Have lost their hunger, too soon

The singing birds have

Left ... Too Early the Autumn Sights

The pointlessness of physical love is a noteworthy topic communicated in her verse. In Maggots, she

contemplates over the uselessness of sexual association. She feels a feeling of casualty, being diminished

to the condition of a body. The male accomplice is with no regret and snack at her body. His spirit

resembles a slimy parasite, which nips at the cool, dead body. She analyzes his kisses to the moving of

slimy parasite over the carcass. He doesn't value her any in excess of a dead body. In the ballad Suicide,

she admits in a comparative tone that she needs to put on a show to be upbeat regardless of her

disappointment: '‘...but I must pose, I must pretend, I must act the role of happy woman, happy wife....’

(Suicide)

Confession booth artists welcome demise and breaking down to accomplish a larger amount of

recognition. Kamala Das communicates her want to bite the dust when she can't discover genuine

romance. Misgiving of death is an expansion of her fixation on the topic of affection desire

disappointment. In a large number of her sonnets, dissatisfaction prompts challenge and disobedience. To

her, demise is a parallel line of life, as in sonnets like Words and Birds, A Holiday for Me, and The

Ancient Mango Tree. She trusts that this life is just a practice for the eternal life. Demise is a scaffold

amongst life and eternality. She is disturbed with her life, as she has neglected to accomplish

unadulterated love. So she imagines that eventually this life and love are transient on this planet. At the

point when her sweetheart cannot offer unadulterated love, she feels that the ocean guarantees a cool

passing, extending her appendages on cool mystery sands. In A Souvenir of Bone, she pictures her own

passing and memorial service; individuals consuming her dead body on a log and picking her bones as

gifts for her lamenting children.

Kamala Das is an enchanting writer of affection and sex. Such genuineness, receptiveness, and mankind

are once in a while found in progress of other Indo-English ladies artists, aside from maybe of Gauri


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Deshpande. In this regard, Kamala Das effortlessly outperforms her male peers like Shiv K. Kumar,

Pritish Nandy, Nissim Ezekiel, R. Parthasarathy, Jayanta Mahapatra, and A. K. Ramanujan and so on.

Her verse is the release and overflow of her serious and prompt feelings. She composes that she is not

affected by any writer in this issue, she scarcely read any one's verse. This is the means by which she

could dive profound into herself, bringing about the inventiveness of thoughts and articulations. Kamala

Das makes utilization of a few different subjects additionally, in her verse, for example, marriage and

love, distraction with cherished recollections, soul and body differentiate, the requirement for declaration

and control. In the expressions of Bruce King, she opens the territories in which 'beforehand prohibited or

overlooked feelings could be communicated in ways which mirror the genuine voice of feeling. She

demonstrates how an Indian lady writer could make a space for herself in the psyches of the perusers.

Kamala Das builds up the topic of affection desire dissatisfaction in an assortment of structures. Huge

numbers of her ballads chiefly abide upon the topic of adoration. She declares that affection is lovely,

whatever the four-lettered name the Puritans may allot to it. It is the preview of heaven. It is the main

interest that includes the spirit. As a devoted Indian wife, she tries to embrace conjugal love and

relationship. Yet, when it backslides into desire and male control, she is humiliated and disappointed. Her

lyrics are the result of her savage and extreme feelings. In this procedure, she cannot keep down any

privileged insights from the perusers.

In this way, by uncovering her deepest emotions, by offering her tumult to the perusers, she discovers

some unwinding from her status of mental disturbance. She finds that men are not true or legitimate in

their conjugal love. She says snidely in her sonnet The Looking Glass, that male conscience should be

complimented. Lady needs to respect the irregular requests and 'blessing him all'. She needs to enable

him to feel his prevalence. However, it is hard to get his genuine romance. She feels extremely uneasy

and stifled in his organization and wishes to be free from his grasp. Additionally, her goal of

accomplishing opportunity from disappointment is portrayed in the sonnet The Substitute. Her significant

other uncovers that adoration is just a physical thing to him. Their connection has turned out to be

excessively mechanical and there is no spirit in it. She cries and requests that the end their connection. In

any event, this would permit her to look for comfort from somewhere else, from substitute sweethearts.

In her verse, Kamala Das constantly extends her own particular encounters, as enthusiastic and sexual

injuries. Her lyrics are connected with her look for intimate romance and humanistic social

acknowledges, which are for the most part denied to her. This generally characterizes the tone of the vast

majority of her ballads. As per T. N. Dhar, her lyrics hatchet brimming with aching and misery and are

described by a sentiment a relatively appalling tremendousness: and attention to a feeling of waste, of

potential outcomes that are rarely acknowledged. Kamala Das is taking care of business as a writer of

free love. Her transparency and bluntness have pulled in numerous perusers and faultfinders. She has set

another custom in Indian verse by uncovering her own particular encounters as a lady. No lady before her

had this mettle or the eagerness. Some of her ballads express fulfillment and satisfaction of adoration and

humankind. Some are composed of adoration for her grandma and her child too. The power of feeling is

very much controlled in such lyrics. There are times when Kamala Das communicates her fulfillment,

notwithstanding demonstrating her thankfulness for her significant other. In the lyric Love, she

communicates her delight and joy. In this way:

Until I found you

I wrote verse, drew pictures

And went out with friends

For walk.

Now that I love you,

Curled like an old mongrel

My life lies, content

In you... ...Love

In these lines, she does not display any disdain either for her better half or for her conjugal life. She does

not hunger for affection from the pariahs. She is by all accounts as cherishing and dependable as a mutt,


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appreciating its lord's conversation. A large portion of the lyrics of Kamala Das displays her

dissatisfaction, disappointment and horrendous encounters, written in an uninhibited way. In the

expressions of Keki Daruwalla, she is pre-famously a writer of adoration and torment, one stalking the

other through a close psychotic world. There is an all-inescapable feeling of hurt all through. Love, the

sluggish creature appetites of substance, hurt and embarrassment are the wraps and the woof of her

beautiful texture.

The opening ballad “The Dance of the Eunuchs” in Summer in Calcutta describes the artist's gagging, her

unfulfilled wants. The searing warmth, tidy and passing mirror the sexual nauseate experienced by her.

The eunuchs move till they drain, yet there is no one to value them. The environment is serious. Indeed,

even the crows are noiseless. Like the eunuchs, she tries to satisfy her better half, to pick up affection

from multiple points of view-yet every one of her endeavors is futile. Unmistakably Kamala Das is not

only after physical love, yet she needs for the enthusiastic character that she cannot accomplish. So she

detests his body and his lewd want and her inquiries with repugnance and antagonism:

Can this man with

Nimble finger-tips unleash

Nothing more alive than the

Skin’s lazy hungers? ...The Freaks

In this sonnet The Freaks, she draws out a wide distinction amongst want and its satisfaction in

humanism. Her heart, in the wake of sitting tight for quite a while, is loaded with the venom called desire.

As she associates the earnestness with his adoration, she can't appreciate profound and enthusiastic

fulfillment. She inquiries: Who can help us? Who have lived so long and have bombed in adoration?' She

depicts her unwilling support in the demonstration of affection, which has ended up being such a tiring

issue. Kamala Das depicts love in various shades and layers. The sonnet Glass communicates the

delicacy of adoration, by contrasting it and the delicacy of affection and body. Half an hour of his

organization transforms her into ‘pure misery, fragile glass, breaking and crumbling....’ (Glass) In Ode to

a Lynx, she looks at a darling to a lynx, which is an image of desire and misleading. She gives a clear

photo of an ordeal of desire in the ballad Flotsam. In this sonnet, she - alongside her darling, is amidst a

burdensome voyage. They see a desert spring as a salvation to their misery. They keep running towards

the water however they stagger. Together they fall awkwardly.

Free for all of the desire turns into very plaguing and surpasses their faculties. Eventually, when she can

take control of herself, she finds that there is no indication of her darling; she is allowed all to sit

unbothered. In another sonnet Cat in the Gutter, she envisions herself enthusiastically engaged with sex.

Her body is completely possessed inside this uproar. In any case, her psyche is not a gathering to it as the

man included resembles a creature. She can't appreciate even one piece of this substantial demonstration

since he is so negligent, with no contemplations to the estimations of life. In the ballad I Shall Some Day,

the writer tends to her better half. He has manufactured a cover of false love and desire around her,

utilizing love words flung from the entryways'. She expects to leave this terrible circumstance. Despite

the fact that she needs to flee and escape, conventions and traditions of her general public tie her. She is

vulnerable, caught in the jail of marriage. She has held a convict under affectations, and she longs for her

discharge. The expectation is the main key that keeps her battle on, helping her survive. Being

despondent with her better half; Kamala Das considers other men and ponders about the culmination of

adoration with them. She goes from darling to sweetheart, looking for genuine and unadulterated love,

however every time she is caught in desire. The Conflagration is a ballad of affection and sexual wants.

The darlings are occupied with sex, in an exceedingly charged condition. The lady has extended herself,

empowering the sweetheart. His body meets her from above, cajoling her into an exceptional arousing

quality. Her body and brain are reacting to this zapped involvement. In the initial segment of the sonnet,

her stance from beneath is contrasted with her internment under a stack of their boundless want for

affection and sex. The second piece of the lyric suggests a blaze of their vicious energy, a peak of fervor

in which the sweethearts meet up like two suns meeting, and each furious to consume the other out.


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Once in a while, Kamala Das investigations adore in legendary settings like Radha-Krishna and Mirabai-

Krishna, drawing a correlation with her journey for intimate romance. She relates the development of her

affection to the one amongst Radha and Krishna. In the sonnet Radha, she is a virgin young lady, 'crying

inside her'. Everything inside her is liquefying. Indeed, even the last shred of hardness from the center is

gone, preparing her for a genuine otherworldly mindfulness. In Ghanashyam, her approach turns out to

be more religious, as she is sick of looking for adoration wherever else. Ruler Krishna 'has thrown his net

in the strait of her brain'. She should race her musings towards him like a 'captivated fish'. She forsakes

her want for physical love and surrenders to Krishna as she put stock in otherworldly darling. M. L.

Sharma brings up that 'all through the checkered profession of her affections and desires, it is Lord

Krishna who has been her actual lover and her journey is constantly determined; coordinated towards

Him.'

Kamala Das possesses an imperative place among the writers who constitute the advanced convention of

Indian verse in English. The advanced pattern of Indian verse rose in the mid-fifties and has proceeded in

shape and the substance. Numerous youthful artists feel a compelling impulse to write in the cutting-edge

drift and to get some distance from the supernatural otherworldly stream of verse spoke to by Sri

Aurobindo Ghosh. These youthful writers need to manage the solid encounters of men living in the

cutting-edge universe of their own chance. These artists doubt what is dubious and supernatural as well

as tend to dismiss anything that looks excessively broad and ordinary. They attempt to expound on their

private experience of life. They catch a snapshot of seriously individual involvement in all its uniqueness

and promptness. In her works, Mrs. Das communicates her own encounters. In her ballad, "An

Introduction", she depicts her own encounters like a cutting-edge artist as given beneath:

… … … … the speech of the mind that is

Here and not there, a mind that sees and hears and

Is aware … An Introduction

The cutting-edge artists express firmly their abhorrence of the ordinary style of composing. The verse of

the post-freedom time effectively meets the essential prerequisites of all great writing like clearness of

thought, the force of emotions, refinement, and nuance of articulation and it guarantees that a person who

has come to know his credible self is not blameworthy of any messiness in thought and feeling. Their

intense mindfulness and the limitations forced on them by the unfriendly condition are uncovered by

creating an adequate measure of pressure and multifaceted nature in the verse of the cutting-edge authors.

Kamala Das is one of the skilled journalists of this gathering.

Some informed areas of Indian culture felt blocked both by the old conventions in the post free time and

the new social and political changes occurring around them. The sentiments of a person in an unfriendly

world are communicated through present day verse. It is identified with the dilemma of the westernized

area of the Indian upper white collar class. Through western instruction numerous individual express

their liberal standards which have a tendency to fortify their feeling of singularity and make them aware

of the coercive weight of Indian copy-cat conventional culture. Western training influences them to see

sane standpoint and a large number of the traditions overseeing their social life which wind up unbending

and petrified. Because of their western training, they secure their unsure independence and the

extraordinary status. They can recognize themselves with the bigger just upsurge that can viably test and

topple the old chains of importance and traditions. There are validness and power in innovator verse. It is

gotten from the distress and outrage felt by the Indian working class.

The human hugeness of the fretfulness and bewilderment or frustration and anguish experienced by the

ladies of the informed class would be substantially more noteworthy since the opposing weights were

available in their life in the increased frame. The cognizant character won by ladies through instruction

couldn't discover any articulation in the parts push onto them by the general public while men could

develop the domain of individual connections as a hold region in light of the fact that their liberal beliefs.

The ladies were precluded from claiming this benefit. There was not really any open door that affirmed

her opportunity and singularity even in the field of man-lady connections. Kamala Das is the main lady

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declaration of the flexibility of articulation in her verse with no restraints. She uncovered the man-lady

relationship influenced by a dissonant or incongruent marriage. Her self-emphatic and intense articulation

made her win numerous honors, for example, PEN Asian Poetry Prize in 1963 and Kerala Sahitya

Akademi Award in 1969.

In India, where the establishment of marriage is bound by conventionality, it is most tragic that such a

delicate lady as Kamala Das is fixing to a stake. Such events are basic in India. Numerous ladies hand

awful and miserable over their state of mind towards life because of this condition. She communicates

more than once her dissents against this kind of circumstance in her verse. She keeps on living with her

significant other and takes care of her three children. She simply looks for a sort of man-lady relationship

which should ensure both love and security to a lady to note that she gives a legendary system to her look

for veritable love and recognizes it with the Radha-Krishna myth or with the Mira-Krishna relationship to

have a few ballads on Lord Krishna in her volumes.

Mrs. Das' verse demonstrates a unique power that in her verse she declares her entitlement to exist as a

person with a particular character. She needs to demonstrate her real self in breaking the molds of

customary morals and respectability. In her lyrics, she uncovers her intense challenge against the silly

confinements which force a delicate and clever lady. In the ballad, "An Introduction", she depicts the part

of a lady in a conventional society. She communicates:

… … … … …Be embroiderer, be a cook,

Be a quarreler with servants. Fit in, oh,

Belong, cried the categorizers. …An Introduction

She uncovers her abhorrence to fit into the plans formulated by the categorizers. Through her bluntness

and confession booth style of composing, she communicates her ostentatious desire keeping in mind the

end goal to recover her undermined nobility. In a large portion of her sonnets, she exhibits the intense

incongruity and anguish of a lady who gets herself secured to a useless routine of family unit exercises.

In the sonnet, "The Siesta", the writer uncovers the frantic circumstances as an insubordinate

demonstration of self-definition and she would not like to be a cut-blossom in the lines:

To pick herself an average

Identity, to age

Through years of earthy din

Gently like a cut flower until

It’s time to be removed; or, will she

Wander … The Siesta

Through her disobedient self-affirmation and she demonstrates the outward esteems. It can obstruct the

passionate and scholarly development of a person. Her agonizing, excited and self-devouring existence of

a not well-balanced touchy individual living the spoiling and rotting society is depicted in her lyric.

Kamala Das' want for the opportunity, her desire to free herself from the dull routine of family life and

desire is appeared in the lines of her lyric, "I Shall Some Days":

I shall some day leave, leave the cacoon

You built around me with morning tea,

Love-words flung from doorways and of course

Your tried lust. I shall some day take

Wings, fly around, as often petals

Do when free in air, and you dear one,

Just the sad remnant of a roof, must

Lie behind, sans pride, on double-beds

And grieve. … I Shall Some Days

Among the Indian artists writing in English, Kamala Das is the person who puts forth entire and open

expressions of the development of her 'self', both in her verse and in her collection of memoirs and

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standout amongst the most prominent artists of India who has made progress even in the West. She is a

lady with a limited scope of involvement throughout everyday life, except she makes the best of the

devastating circumstances around. Like Jane Austin, she additionally moves inside her constrained range

with effortlessness and expertise. The benefit of this range is that it offers to the peruser just what the

essayist has by and by felt and acknowledged. It is nothing acquired from another source.

As a writer of ladylike sensibility, Kamala Das gives vent to the expectations, fears, and want of

womankind. She has been the champion of lady's motivation in every one of her works. Her sonnets like,

"An Introduction", "A Relationship", "Summer in Calcutta", "The Freaks", "The Old Playhouse", "The

Dance of Eunuchs" and a few others lyrics have shown her strength and opportunity in talking out loud

the mystery longings and desires of womankind. In her lyric, "Summer in Calcutta", she depicts a lady's

boisterous scan for the want of intimate romance under the burning sun. She says:

… … … … My worries

Doze, Wee bubbles ring

My glass, like a bride’s

Nervous smile, and meet

My lips. Dear, forgive

This moment’s lull in

Wanting you, the blur

In memory. …Summer in Calcutta

In her verse as well as in her articles, she turns out as an informal representative of the Indian partner of

the ladies' freedom development in the West and her papers like "For what reason Not More Than One

Husband?", "Why Women Expect Out Of Marriage And What They Get" and "The She-Mouse Returns

Home" are the declaration to this. In Kamala Das, we discover much that is traditional and female and

she talks so anyone might hear of the requirements and fears of a typical lady and argues for genuine love

and feeling that all is well with the world of her out of her own insight.

Mrs. Das has communicated her own duality from the mix in herself of a requirement for household

security and the intrinsic want to be freed. Marriage and love shape the overwhelming topics of Mrs. Das'

verse. When she talks about adoration outside marriage, she is by all accounts just looking for a

relationship which gives both authentic love and impervious security and she gives a legendary system to

her scan for genuine romance and distinguishes it with that of Mira-Bai surrendering the ties of marriage

in quest for Lord Krishna, the genuine perfect sweetheart. In the ballad "Vrindavan", she talks about this

inquiry:

Vrindavan lives on in every woman’s mind

and the flute luring her

from home and her husband

who later asks her of the long scratch

on the brown aureola of her breast

and she shyly replies

hiding flushed cheeks, it was so dark

outside, I tripped over the brambles in the woods … Vrindavan

In the sonnet, "Ghanashyam", Kamala Das ventilates her mysterious longings and legendary leanings.

She is basically a writer of affection. She is not such a great amount of engrossed in a mystical journey or

with a detailing of graceful hypothesis with an exceptional looks of adoration. As an artist of adoration,

she looks most guileless, legitimate and blunt. She does not have the scholarly pride and the kind instance

of Judith Wright. It must be specified that her verse is against a preservationist and forbidden society not

to be against a free and uninhibited society of the Australian poetess. When contrasted with some other

ladies artists of the confession booth mode, she may need scholarly energy however she demonstrates

expressive upheaval of unpremeditated contemplations and sentiments in passionate force.

In actuality, Kamala is more mindful of the tenderness in the life of a typical lady assuming an extremely

uninvolved part in the convention-bound society than some of these ladies writers are featuring an


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alternate social and good ethos. Identified with the subject of adoration is the festival of the body in Mrs.

Das' verse. Her approach is superbly individual and including a touch of the delicacy of an old appeal to

it. Her sonnets demonstrate that she the two preferences her body. Physically she is dimming

complexioned with conventional highlights and her despising for the body is somewhat because of this

and incompletely because of her secured disease. In preferring the body, she is driven by the delight it

stands to her and to her partner. In this issue, she looks like another recognized Indo-English writer,

Nissim Ezekiel. He is an artist of the body. Her strains issue forward from the weights of her mind-

boggling family foundation. She is neither nurtured by her folks nor by her office-going spouse after her

marriage and she has passed on her affections for her significant other's home in her self-portraying

novel, My Story. She says in regards to her significant other:

“My husband left for his office every morning before nine and returns at ten in the night after our

son had fallen asleep in his room, on the babycot beneath which the old ayah spread out her own

mattress. There was no opportunity for the father to get to know the child, or to learn to regard

him as a distinct personality.” (My Story, 11)

The sonnet, "The Stone Age", has drawn out the retrograde esteem frameworks and obscurantism hidden

familial expansionism. In fact, colonization of the female needs at home far originates before British

colonization and it has ended up being significantly more harming and out of line than political

government from which there is dependably a degree for free. This is not the 'Stone Age', of the

honorable savage considerate and basic, however of the 'Old fat creepy crawly', the 'predatory plant', the

hooded wind", an 'untamed lion' and profligate. The creature symbolism is useful and suggestive of the

savage character of the beguiling male. She dependably holds up like a python to trap and strangulate the

delicate female lessening her to a toy and callous being and the image of bird and rock implies the

colonized lady and the colonizer who is a man. The line, 'with boisterous talk you wound my pre-

morning rest' uncovers a sound-related portrayal of the severe unconcern of the savage male.

Kamala Das says sexual orientation is at the level of behavioral attributes and the male and the female

viewpoints in the human identity end up indivisible. Concerning aesthetic creation, she says dependence

in regards to sex contrast. She needs to dismiss the male and the female parallels to Mrs. Das, sex turns

into a matter of individual voice and style. She rejects unequivocal terms, the twofold male-female

restriction set by the Western radical women's activists. This sort of disjunctiveness, the feeling of shared

rejection influences the Western women's activist awareness to seem negative in character to Das and

consequently excites her disdain. Notwithstanding some exceptionally sharp comments made by her

graceful personae and characters, the general position of Mrs. Das is not the slightest bit against the male.

She says her feeling of woman's rights inside herself is unique in relation to the woman's rights in the

West.

Western women's liberation is a hostile to the male position. She never loathes the male since she adores

her significant other regardless she cherishes her youngsters. She can determine a ton of bliss from a

manly organization. Thus, she is never ready to abhor them. It shows that Mrs. Das is comparing Western

woman's rights with radical woman's rights. By rejecting the male-female separation, she gives a

progressively certain ramification to woman's rights. It rises to be basically of a humanistic kind. Her

verse is the solid repugnance, humanistic social angles, and defense for the requirements of ladies as a

living being. She has indicated defiant zones in her verse. Her ballads are considering the shocking

condition of the lady in male-overwhelmed society. The prevalence of the collection of memoirs, My

Story, has maybe regarded her picture as a writer in people in general personality, however, she has the

profundity and validity of the craftsman in her English verse moreover.

In her ballad, "An Introduction", Mrs. Das has featured the status of a lady in the general public

administered by men. What's more, Sylvia Plath who a renowned American writer of 1960s. She has

similar encounters like that of Kamala Das. In her works and she has likewise uncovered the life of a

young lady experiencing childhood in the male-ruled society. Her works are the impression of her life as

well as the lives of numerous young ladies everywhere throughout the world. A few commentators


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depicted her as a delicate overambitious lady battling for a profession of composing and also assuming

the liability of spouse, youngsters, and rule of endorsed home life. Faultfinders took a gander at her as a

nonsensical fussbudget whose preposterous requests estranged everybody who crossed her way, a

lopsided craftsman who might forfeit everything including her own life to serve her specialty. In this way

about humanism, Dr. Radhakrishnan had detected the unavoidable happening to humanism into activity:

……….sufficient to create a universal human community, a sense of personal relationships

among men. Though, this human consciousness was till recently limited to the members of the

political states, there has been a rapid extension of it after the War. The modes and customs of all

men are now a part of the consciousness of all men. Man has become the spectator of man. A new

humanism is on the horizon. But this time, it embraces the whole of mankind. (Radhakrishnan,7)

CONCLUSION

Humanism is a reasoning of enthusiastic hopefulness. It is significantly unique, since; it is constantly

prepared to take cognisance of the changing and developing nature of information. It is definitely not

obstinate and intolerant. It is straightforward and promising as a lifestyle for contemporary man and it is

overwhelmingly suited to the cutting-edge world, one quick need of which is the formation of a group of

countries which may convey enduring peace and copious thriving to the entire of humankind. Humankind

lives today under the loathsome risk of the Third World War. It may lessen the entire brood of Homo

sapiens to a store of radio-dynamic powder. The restoration, in the length and expansiveness of the world

of humanism as a logic which has as its focal objective the peace and welfare of all humankind, is a glad

sign, and on it might well-depend the very survival of humankind. She has a striking likeness in their

fundamental impression of the experience as ladies and as writers. She has endeavored to clarify the

humanistic social perspectives and the women's activist voice through her works. She has anticipated

another gadget to free ladies from the servitude of subjection in the male-overwhelmed society. The artist

has communicated her aversion for the easygoing and inadequate part of a lady in the male represented

society. Her exceptional wants to be adored and cherishing spouse and she wants to end up mother is the

basic topics of her works. She has indicated at the requirement for women's activist developments and

humanistic social perspectives through her works and she has found the male-authority from the internal

center of her ladylike awareness and the response and connections in humanistic social angles.

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3 Huxley, J., “Essays of a Humanist”, London, 1954, p. 98.

4 Kamala Das, “Summer in Calcutta” (New Delhi: Everest Press, 1965) 60.

5 Kamala Das, “The Best of Kamala Das” (Kozhikode: Bodhe Publishing House, 1991) 48.

6 Keki N. Daruwalla, “Two Decades of Indian Poetry”, Vikas Publishing House, Ghaziabad, 1980, p. 34-35.

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12 Quoted by Dr. Raghukul Tilak in “New Indian English Poets and Poetry”, Rama Brothers, New Delhi, 1995, p. 24.

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