Popular actor Vidya Balan has pulled out of a planned biopic on the controversial poetess Kamala Das with the film director ... even urged Kamal to leave the country if he “continued to ...

Breaking barriers: Das converted to Islam in 1999 and changed her surname. Mahesh Harilal / The Hindu I knew Kamala Das much before I knew poetry ... women all over the country.

Poet, novelist, short story writer and columnist — late Kamala Das' creative calling straddled all of these. Verse or prose, her acerbic style cut through many emotions of a lonely heart.