Renowned Writer Kamala Das Passed Away

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Pune, India: Well-known writer Kamala Das alias Kamala Surayya alias Madhavikutty passed away in a private hospital at Pune, India, on Sunday early morning, the 31st May 2009, family sources said. She was 75. She had been undergoing treatment in the hospital for the last few months.

Kamala Das, a well-known Indian writer, who wrote in English as well as Malayalam, her native language. She is considered to be one of the outstanding Indian poets writing in English, although her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories, novels and autobiography. Much of her writing in Malayalam came under the pen name Madhavikkutty.

Kamala Das was recognized as one of India’s foremost poets, who born on March 31, 1934 in Malabar in Kerala.