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| name = Ente Kadha<br/>([[My Story (Das book)|My Story]])<br />
| title_orig = എന്റെ കഥ<br />
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| author = [[Kamala Surayya]]<br />
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| country = India<br />
| language = [[Malayalam]]<br />
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| publisher = Current Books <small>(1973–1982)</small><br>[[DC Books]] <small>(1982–present)</small><br />
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| pages = 107<br />
| isbn = 81-7130-059-6<br />
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'''''Ente Kadha''''' (''My Story'') is an autobiography written by [[Kamala Surayya]] (Madhavikutty) in the year 1973. She was motivated to write this as she became ill and thought will not survive. The book was controversial and outspoken and had her critics gunning her after it was published in 1973; often shocking her readers with her for conventions and expression of her opinions on subjects in society- more often on the hypocrisy of it. Though ''My Story'' was supposed to be an autobiography, Das later admitted that there was plenty of fiction in it.<ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
| title = Obituary : Kamala Das - Indian writer and poet who inspired women struggling to be free of domestic oppression<br />
| author = Shahnaz Habib<br />
| newspaper = [[The Guardian]]<br />
| url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/18/obituary-kamala-das<br />
| date = 18 June 2009<br />
| access-date = 2 June 2013<br />
| location=London<br />
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Surayya herself translated the book into English, titled ''[[My Story (Das book)|My Story]]''.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}<br />
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== Plot summary ==<br />
This book is about Aami (Kamala), starting from her childhood and her village. It also depicts her teenage love towards a neighbor of the same age. Her childhood in colonized Calcutta is also explained vividly. Her failed marriage, the birth of her children and her extramarital affairs are addressed in this work. She moved away from social conventions and portrayed homosexuality as well.<br />
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== Publication ==<br />
''Ente Kadha'' was serialised in 1972 in the now defunct ''Malayalanadu'' weekly, a literary magazine published by S. K. Nair. The novel not only created a literary sensation but even invited the wrath of Das' close relatives who wanted to stop its publication. V. B. C. Nair, the Editor of ''Malayalanadu'' recalls, "Despite pressure from her influential relatives to stop the publication of the work, Kamala remained bold and it proved a roaring hit boosting the circulation of the weekly by 50,000 copies within a fortnight."<ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
| title = 'My Story' made Kamala Surayya celebrity: Malayalanadu editor<br />
| agency = [[Press Trust of India]]<br />
| newspaper = [[The Times of India]]<br />
| url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-06-01/thiruvananthapuram/28199424_1_malayalam-kamala-surayya-editor<br />
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130629121839/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-06-01/thiruvananthapuram/28199424_1_malayalam-kamala-surayya-editor<br />
| url-status = dead<br />
| archive-date = 29 June 2013<br />
| date = 1 June 2009<br />
| access-date = 2 June 2013<br />
| location = Trivandrum<br />
}}</ref> It was published as a book by Current Books in 1973 February.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131016115754/http://www.dcbooks.com/51th-impression-of-ente-katha-released.html 51st impression of ''Ente Kadha'' released by DC Books]<br />
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[[Category:1973 books]]<br />
[[Category:Literary autobiographies]]<br />
[[Category:Indian autobiographical novels]]<br />
[[Category:Indian non-fiction books]]<br />
[[Category:Malayalam-language books]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian books]]<br />
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