Kamala Das

Kamala Das

Punnayurkulam, Thrissur District in Kerala
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Dance Of The Eunuchs Comments

Rating: 3.3

It was hot, so hot, before the eunuchs came
To dance, wide skirts going round and round, cymbals
Richly clashing, and anklets jingling, jingling
Jingling... Beneath the fiery gulmohur, with
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Bijay Kant Dubey 02 May 2022

We do not know if the eunuchs came to her house or not. Was it a personal experience which she came to feel it? Whatever be that, the spectacle is no doubt bizarre to experience the dissatisfied souls dancing and singing and clapping. Their lullabies too are of their type.

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Bijay Kant Dubey 02 May 2022

They cut a sorry figure as for being neither men nor women genderlessly. What they are none can say about the creations of the Divine.about the things o the Divine. But when they bless, they as Ardhanarishwar Shiva and when curse they, hairs stand on.

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Bijay Kant Dubey 02 May 2022

The eunuchs, where did she see them in Calcutta or Malabar? Why did they come to? What is the matter? Generally, they come after hearing the news of the new born child and they make it dance and as money from and bless and go away.

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Parimal Mandal 03 March 2020

Very good website with audio

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Dr Antony Theodore 06 February 2019

Some beat their drums; others beat their sorry And wailed, and writhed in vacant ecstasy. They Were thin in limbs and dry; like half-burnt logs from Funeral pyres, a drought and a rottenness.. the great kamala das of india writes great poems and novels.. tony

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Narayanan Kutty Pozhath 25 April 2018

Her days in Calcutta and her exposure to eunuchs is expressed in her many works.

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Kamala Das

Kamala Das

Punnayurkulam, Thrissur District in Kerala
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