The charm of growing up in the Kerala of eighties, besides the balmy summer vacations and monsoons were the voices of a few writers. They spoke on the pages of Mathrubhumi magazine which the newspaper boy threw every week at the gate.
That was a long time ago.
Basheer was gone. Vijayan left a while ago. Now its Kamala Das's turn.
Madhavikkutty, as she is known to her malayalam readers, tormented them in more ways than they could've bargained for. She was loved when she was not hated.
The charm too is gone!
P.S: An article on Madhavikkutty, written a while ago.
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Hi Rajesh, thoughtful of you to post this tribute to Kamala Das (that is how I will always remember her). I still remember a weekly column she used to write in R K Karanjia's magazine Blitz during the mid seventies and also the storm that her autobiography had created.
Hello Dev,
I kind of imagined you gleaning her out of Blitz. Blitz was a waterhole all sorts of renegades who were trying to make it big in Delhi at some point. I remember Vijayan writing about it.
There is a unique relationship between her and the readers of her malayalam works, which is hard to explain. Madhavikkutty resonates with them in many ways.
I did write a bit about her a while back. Let me put that link up here just in case.
Caged Bird Who Knew No Cages: Vijay Nambisan's tribute to her from the Literary Review of The Hindu (June 2009.
http://www.hindu.com/lr/2009/06/07/stories/2009060750010100.htm
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