PASSION FOR INDIVIDUALITY AND SELF-IDENTITY IN THE POETRY OF MAMTA KALIA

<p>Indian writers in English, during pre and<br>post-independence periods, have ever been<br>extremely rich in their unique ways of<br>presenting human emotions. Literature<br>being the best medium to express emotions<br>and advocate ideas has a unique power of<br>transcending all barriers of time and<br>space. The manner in which it treats a<br>particular theme and invests it with a<br>universal meaning, binds the strangest of<br>the people and remotest of the places. It<br>delineates the inner-life and subtle<br>impersonal relationships of the characters<br>in a subtle and sensible way. The modern<br>Indian women poets boldly shared their<br>vision and mission and their emotions and<br>aspirations through their writings. They<br>have succeeded in establishing their<br>identity in world literature and are firm to<br>retain their identity at home too. Their<br>characters too are setting new trends in<br>the society. These poets dealt with new<br>trends and themes in their poetry like<br>Love, Sex, Man-Woman relationship,<br>Betrayal, Loneliness and Identity crisis,<br>etc. They used poetry as a powerful<br>medium to bring about a social change.<br>Kamala Das, Mamta Kalia, Imtiaz<br>Dharker, Eunice D’Souza, Monika Verma<br>and others, for instance, despite being<br>Indian women from a traditional<br>background, broke away the social<br>barriers to elevate confessional poetry to<br>the highest level and make it truly modern<br>with their passion for Individuality and<br>Self-Identity. The present paper aims show<br>this Passion and Endeavour in the poetry<br>of Mamta Kalia, a very prominent PostIndependence Indo-Anglian woman poet.<br><br></p>