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Kamala Surayya , connue sous le nom de plume de Madhavikutty et Kamala Das, est une poétesse indienne et l'une des principales auteures de langue Malayalam en Inde. Sa popularité dans son État d'origine est basée sur ses histoires courtes et autobiographiques ainsi que pour son œuvre en anglais, écrit sous le nom de Kamala Das. Elle est aussi une chroniqueuse appréciée traitant de problématiques comme les droits des femmes et des enfants. Son traitement honnête et sans tabou de la sexualité féminine, libre de culpabilité est pleine d'espoir. Elle est considérée comme une iconoclaste de sa génération.

Le 1er février 2018, Google India célèbre Kamala Das par un Doodle créé par l'artiste Manjit Thapp. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. mars 1934 – 31. mai 2009
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Kamala Surayya: Citations en anglais

“Like other women writers of my class, I am expected to tame my talent to suit the comfort of my family.”

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Kamala Suraiyya Das (Wages of Love)

“All round me are words, and words and words, They grow on me like leaves, they never Seem to stop their slow growing From within… But I tell my self, words Are a nuisance, beware of them, they Can be so many things, a Chasm where running feet must pause, to Look, a sea with paralyzing waves, A blast of burning air or, A knife most willing to cut your best Friend's throat… Words are a nuisance, but. They grow on me like leaves on a tree, They never seem to stop their coming, From a silence, somewhere deep within…”

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Kamala Suraiyya Das (Summer in Calcutta)

“It is I who drink lonely Drinks at twelve, midnight, in hotels of strange towns, It is I who laugh, it is I who make love And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying With a rattle in my throat. 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.”

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Kamala Suraiyya Das

“At sunset, on the river ban, Krishna Loved her for the last time and left... That night in her husband's arms, Radha felt So dead that he asked, What is wrong, Do you mind my kisses, love? And she said, Not not at all, but thought, What is It to the corpse if the maggots nip?”

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Kamala Suraiyya Das (The Descendants)

“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.”

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Kamala Suraiyya Das

“I am fed up with the Congress. I am beginning to prefer the BJP to the Congress, because the Congress is now more communal than the BJP, despite Ram Janmabhoomi. It is the Congress which evolved the Muslim votebank. … In comparison, I prefer the BJP as an alternative, because it is less corrupt. The BJP at least loves the country. But I wish the BJP does not stress redundant issues like the Ram Janmabhoomi or other places of worship.”

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Kamala Surayya, quoted by Leela Menon (1996), and quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 245.

“If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze.”

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Kamala Suraiyya Das (Wages of Love)

“Wipe out the paints, unmould the clay, Let nothing remain of that yesterday.”

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Kamala Surayya livre My Story

Kamala Suraiyya Das (My Story: The Compelling Autobiography of the Most Contreversial Indian Writer)

“I fell in love with a Muslim after my husband's death. He was kind and generous in the beginning. But I now feel one shouldn't change one's religion. It is not worth it. Also, I have been accused of being feminist. I am not a feminist, as it is understood. I don't hate men. I feel a woman is most attractive when she surrenders to her man. She is incomplete without a man.”

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Suresh Kohli: Still a rebel writer, The Hindu (August 13, 2006)

“Getting a man to love you is easy Only be honest about your wants as Woman. Stand nude before the glass with him So that he sees himself the stronger one And believes it so, and you so much more Softer, younger, lovelier. Admit your Admiration. Gift him all, Gift him what makes you woman, the scent of Long hair, the musk of sweat between the breasts, The warm shock of menstrual blood, and all your Endless female hungers. Oh yes, getting A man to love is easy, but living Without him afterwards may have to be Faced.”

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