POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
- 1. SREELEKSHMI T J ENGLISH CANDIDATE CODE : 16514352026 FATHIMA MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE, PALLIMUKKU
- 2. A LOOK IN TO THE LIFE AND CAREER OF QUEEN OF LOVE KAMA LA DAS
- 4. Kamala Das BORN : 31 March 1934 PLACE : PUNNAYURKKULAM THRISSUR FATHER : V.M.NAIR MOTHER : BALAMANI AMMA SPOUSE : K MADHAVA D
- 5. CAREER OCCUPATION : POET,NOVELIST,SHORTSTORY WRITER PEN NAME : MADHAVIKUTTY NOTABLE AWARDS : EZTHUTHACHAN AWARD VAYALAR AWARD SAHITHYA ACADEMY AWARD ASAN WORLD PRIZE ASIAN POETRY PRIZE KENT AWARD
- 6. FAMOUS WORKS 1965: Summer in Calcutta (poetry; Kent's Award winner) 1967 : The Descendants (poetry) 1973: The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (poetry) 1976: MY STORY (autobiography) 1977: Alphabet of Lust (novel) 1985: The Anamalai Poems (poetry) 1992: Padamavati the Harlot and Other Stories (collection of short stories) 1996: Only the Soul Knows How to Sing (poetry) 2001: Yaa Allah (collection of poems) 1979: Tonight,This Savage Rite (with Pritish Nandy) 1999: My Mother at Sixty-six (Poem) – : My Grandmother House (Poem)
- 7. 1964: Pakshiyude Manam (short stories) 1966: Naricheerukal Parakkumbol (short stories) 1968: Thanuppu (short story, Sahitya Academi award) 1982:Ente Katha (autobiography) 1987: Balyakala Smaranakal (Childhood Memories) 1989: Varshangalkku Mumbu (Years Before) 1990: Palayan (novel) 1991: Neypayasam (short story) 1992: Dayarikkurippukal (novel) 1994: Neermathalam Pootha Kalam (novel, Vayalar Award) 1996: Chekkerunna Pakshikal (short stories) 1998: Nashtapetta Neelambari (short stories) Ente Kadha" (Autobiography) 2005: Chandana Marangal (Novel) 2005: Madhavikkuttiyude Unmakkadhakal (short stories)2x 2005: Vandikkalakal (novel) 1999: My Mother at Sixty-six (Poem) “
- 8. THE TATTEREDBLANKET Madhavikutty’s ‘The Tattered Blanket’ exposes the bitter truths of life in a stunningly simple manner. After five years Gopi comes to Kerala to see his mother. Gopi is a big officer in Delhi living with his wife Vasantha and four children. He has come to Thiruvananthapuram as a part of his official assignment. He ‘Just dropped in his way back’ to meet his mother. His mother is very old. She lives with his eldest sister Kamalam who is a widow. When he arrived unexpectedly at his home in the countryside, his mother was lying in an armchair on the veranda. Mother fails to recognise her son Gopi. She believes that Gopi is still a school boy. She doesn’t recognise anybody. Sometimes her memory is quite sharp, sometimes she forgets the present, but remembers the past. When her memory is very sharp she asks about Gopi’s letters from Delhi. Kamalam tells her a lie that everything is fine with Gopi, his wife and kids. But Gopi doesn’t write any letters to his mother. Mother doesn’t recognise her son. She asks her son Gopi ‘Who is your Amma? What is her name? Where does she live? Is it far from here?’ But mother has the picture of her son in her mind. She says, My son ‘is in Delhi... a Government Officer. He has Kesariyogam.... He draws a salary of two thousand five hundred rupees’. Mother tells Gopi if he meets her sons ask him to send her a blanket. A red one. She has a blanket, the one Gopi bought for her when he was studying in Madras.
- 9. It is all tattered now, just a ball of knotted yarn. Gopi has come home to ask his sister to sell his share of land and get some money for him. Kamalam knows that Gopi has come only for money, not to see his mother. It took more than five years for him to find time to come home. Kamalam says, ‘Amma is eighty three now. I don’t think she will pull on much longer. It took you so long to visit her after the last time.’ But Gopi has his excuses for not visiting Amma. He says ‘But Amma can’t remember who I am.’ The story ends with Kamalam’s question to Gopi, ‘But do you remember your Amma?’ Amma doesn’t recognise her son because she has lost her power of memory. In fact forgetfulness is a blessing for her. Her son doesn’t have any love for his mother. This is one of the brilliant short stories penned by Madhavikutty in Malayalam. Her focus has always been on the tormented female self craving for love. She is concerned with the condition of women and the way in which they are betrayed by society. In ‘The Tattered Blanket’ mother craves for her son’s love. Her son is evergreen in her memory. But she has been overpowered by forgetfulness. She needs a red blanket because the old one is tattered. Here blanket represents the warmth of her son’s love. She actually needs her son’s love. The tattered blanket symbolises the tattered soul of the mother. Madhavikutty’s stories are a re-affirmation of women, woman reclaimed of body and spirit. In ‘The Tattered Blanket’ Madhavikutty portrays the poignant voice of wounded womanhood against the value systems of a male-dominated society.
- 10. NALAPPAD HOUSE