The poetic work of Kamala Das has engaged considerable critical attention and sustained rigorous explication. The subject of Kamala's work comprises of “woman” and the revelation of female experiences, be it trauma of an unhappy marriage or humiliation of a desireless surrender in sex or disgust at the male domination. Quest for love is certainly the perennial theme of Kamala's poetry. Love, for a woman is much more than what it is for a man. The difference in experience of love for the two is well put by Kamala: “............In him......the hungry haste Of rivers, in me... the oceans' tireless Waiting.” ----- (An