![]() Indian literature in the 1950s and 60s, and even 70s had not evolved enough to accept, without struggle, the language of a woman who had decided to lay her life and its longings bare. ![]() Through the 50s and 60s, she continued writing in her signature confessional and graphic writing style, talking about women's issues - struggling with sexism, understanding and experimenting with their own sexuality, childbirth, love, desire, loneliness, being stifled, emotional disillusionment, etc., leaving readers either awestruck or angered. One of her earliest published works, Sthree, a story that was published in Mathrubhumi Weekly in 1947, when Ms Das as barely 13, had lesbianism as its central theme. They also often borrowed words and phrases from each other. Her writing, whether in English or Malayalam, had strong feminist leanings and she didn't shy away from discussing sex and sexuality in her stories and poems. Most of her writing in Malayalam was written under the pen name of Madhavikutty. ![]() Kamala Das wrote extensively and in explicit detail.
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