A Hot Noon In Malabar

A Hot Noon In Malabar

By Kamala Das (Evaluated By Ashique Siyad)

Kamala Suraiya or better known as Kamala Das is a well known female Indian writer writing in English as well as Malayalam, her mother tongue.

She is considered one of the outstanding Indian poets writing in English, although her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography .

She had begun her carrer by writing short stories in Malayalam before she published her first book of poems, ?Summer In Calucutta? which apperared in 1965 . Her unique style of writing and thought won her the fame and recognition of a potential female Indian poet.

The striking features of her works are the outpouring of personnel sorrows and feelings etc. portrayed

without any modification and known for its frankness and intensity of feelings . Kamala Das is probably the first Hindu woman to openly and honestly talk about love and sexual desires.Her poems can be described as confectional poetry straight from her heart without any adulteration.The confectional nature of her works is akin to Slyvia Plath who worked on personnel traumas.

A Hot Noon In Malabar is an intensively emotional and personnel poem.It?s one of her typical works evoking malabar landscape and its lush greenery.

This poem very powerfully evokes her sense of belonging to the Malabar of her childhood and Malabar and the Alappat tharavad form the core symbols of this poem.In this poem she retraces her lost childhood in the tides of time but it still remains etched so deeply in her heart.

The nostalgic essence of this piece of work highlights the idyllic times she had as a young child. The Allapat tharavad where she spent her childhood stands as a symbol of joy of youth, for