• K.L.Rekha

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Love is a choice and it springs from appreciating goodness. It need not happen but can make it happen. Love is active and strong. Love sees good in others rather than the bad. Love is universal and love can also be unconditional. An unconditional love is selfless, non-egoistic and relenting. It expects nothing, expresses everything, bears and holds even the worst of anything, accepts hurts and stripes and bears bruises, suffers long and kind. All the above stated ingredients of unconditional love were found in the life of kamala Das’ Grandmother and in the poem ‘My grandmother’s House’ she yearns for it. In common the love of Grandparents towards Grandchildren is unconditional and incomparable.

This paper is written based on Kamala Das’ My Grandmother’s House which envisages the qualities of the ancestral home and the love depicted by Kamala Das.

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