Kamla Das was born (March 31,1934) in a Nair family. She hails from the Southern Malabar in Kerala. She opened her eyes in the beautiful lap of nature and blossomed beside a fathomless sea. As her autobiography reveals her maiden name is Madhavikakutty. She attended a European school in
Kolkata then the elementary school at Punnayurkulam (her birth place) and then a boarding school
run by the Roman Catholic nuns. At the Catholic boarding school, she got ill and sent back to Kolkata where private tutors were engaged to teach her fine arts. She was nurtured in an autocratic atmosphere in her home. About her parents’ and their relationship she reveals, “My mother did not fall in love with my father. They were dissimilar and horribly mismatched”1.But her mother’s timidity created an illusion of domestic harmony and produced some half a dozen children of swarthy skin and ordinary features. Her parental home was influenced by the movement of Gandhi and its members used to wear ‘Khadi’ clothes and even spin ‘khadi’ yarn. Gandhi’s photo was hung in every room. Her ancestral house was christened as ‘Nalapat House’. Her mother was a writer and grand- uncle was a poet.
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