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Kamala Das was noted for her many Malayalam short stories as well as many poems written in English. It is well-known that Kamala Das has succeeded in her aim to reveal her covered secrets to the readers. In My Story, Kamala Das tells her personal experiences including her growth into womanhood, her unsuccessful quest for love in and outside marriage, and her living in matriarchal rural South India after inheriting her ancestral home. Das talks about the domestic details of food, familial relations, marriage, childbirth, sexual liaisons, and the internal and external struggles of one woman in a repressive world. Her autobiography can be read as a critique of the victimization of women in a patriarchal society. She realizes the powerlessness of the female body and she believes that for the victimized women in a patriarchal society, sexuality not only makes her vulnerable physically but also makes her vulnerable emotionally and spiritually.