Question

What was Kamla Das's
childhood fear?

Answer 1

Kamala Das's mother was an old lady of sixty six. Her childhood fear returned on seeing her pale and corpse-like face she feared lest her mother should die before her return. She also got troubled on thinking that she would also face such processes of life.

Answer 2

The childhood fear of Kamla das was that she will lose her mother one day.

The process of ageing and decay spares nobody.

Therefore, her childhood fear was of the dead and decay.

The pain of separation from the family and especially from the mother become intense and deep when we are children.

As child grow, parents also grow older and death is inevitable nobody is immortal.