A Study of Love and Protest Themes Works in Kamala Das Novels

Kamala Das is a creative artist who happens to have involved herself into the contemporary and modern fundaments of thoughts and action, skepticism, opposition and criticism did not choose to write under the western impact of feminist writing. The poet followed her own instinct which she inherited as her own tradition and Indian Culture. She has achieved a unique place amongst feminist writers. She has contributed substantially in liberating women from the patriarchal and obligatory thinking. And therefore it paves the way to understand such type of modern poets in practical immediate poetic fight with the contemporary male counterparts. She has her own style of writing which is different from western women poets. But she has some common features too, like an effort to free female self and its literature and honest expression and portrayal of experience and exposure to female impulses. This has developed a mutual transaction of the self and the other which permanently remains the mystery and she herself indefatigably tries the strength of falling into the war of differently trying her hand at writing. According to Vrinda Nabar, Kohali has described Kamala Das most appropriately when he refers to her article „I Studied all Men‟. In that article Kamala Das has described that how she entered into a series of affairs to seek a substitute for her disharmonious marriage. The poem „Substitute‟ compares love to swivel-door which allows people to enter when someone else goes out.