Balamani Amma



Padmabhushan Nalappat Balamani Amma was a Malayali poetess.

Considered by many to be one of the best Malayali poetess, she won the highest literary medal in India, the Saraswathi Samman.

She was married to former managing editor of the widely-circulated Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi, V.M. Nair.

She is the mother of the renowned writer Kamala Das. Balamani Amma was influenced by her uncle Nalappat Narayana Menon, Vallathol, Guru Cheruliyil Kunhunni Nambeesan, and by the Theosophical movement of India and Mahatma Gandhi.

She was interested in astrology, and philosophy of India and has written many poems on bhakthi/gnana and karma. Nivedyam is the collection of poems of Balamani Amma from 1959 to 1986.

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