SOURCE: Manohar, D. Murali. “Man-Woman Relationship with Respect to the Treatment of Love in Kamala Das's Poetry.” In Kamala Das: Treatment of Love in Her Poetry, pp. 14-53. Gulbarga, India: Jiwe Publications, 1999.

In the following essay, Manohar traces Das's depiction of the male-female dynamic in her verse.

In the life of a woman or a man there are happy as well as sorrowful events. Neither the sorrowful events nor the happy events can be forgotten. In order to understand the man-woman relationship in terms of love in Kamala Das's poetry one could ask questions like:

a) What is man-woman relationship?

b) What is man's conception of his relationship with woman?

c) What is woman's conception of her relationship with man?

d) Is family/man/husband responsible for the woman's unhappy life?

e) What happens if there is no understanding between man and woman?

f) Is there any way...