• priyanka Patle

Desire never completed because it never fulfills, when we desire one thing and it is completed then our mind seeks fulfilment of another desire. This vicious circle of desire does not give any mental peace. But desire for sex is not good and extra-marital affairs are not acceptable in the Indian society. My Story reveals an autobiographical narrative by an Indian author and poetess Kamala Das. It recounts the ordeals of her marriage and painful self-awakening as a woman and writer. My paper deals with the work of Kamala Das's My Story which shows the indulgence of different relationships. Kamala Das was a conventional writer who talks about her own personal life through her literary career. She openly describes her sexual adventures and her periods of mental breakdown with her husband. She never got a truthful relationship from her husband and then she had several extra-marital affairs in her life. In My Story a young woman who is much younger than her highly placed husband even not much educated and haunted by unfulfilled desires of a young woman. The author exposes her bored life and physical connotation and affairs with several men. The paper, through anatomizing of the selected autobiography , explores the caves and caverns of a woman’s heart. It depicts the author's intense personal experience in her passage to womanhood and throws light on the hypocrisies of a traditional society. “Society can well ask me how I could become what I became, although born to parents as high-principled as mine were. Ask the books that I read why I changed. Ask the authors dead and alive who communicated with me and gave me the courage to be myself. The books like a mother-cow licked the calf of my thought into shape and left me to lie at the altar of the world as a sacrificial gift.” Sexual Adventures, Incompleteness, desire, extra-marital affairs, My Story.

Sexual Adventures, Incompleteness, desire, extra-marital affairs, My Story.

"Outspokenness of Sexual Adventures and Incompleteness of Desire: Represented in 'My Story' by Kamala Das", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.f654-f658, September-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309579.pdf

"Outspokenness of Sexual Adventures and Incompleteness of Desire: Represented in 'My Story' by Kamala Das", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no. ppf654-f658, September-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309579.pdf