KOCHI: She was the embodiment of love. She lived for love, the depth which only a few could understand. On her third death anniversary, Dr Sulochana Nalapat recalls how her sister Aami aka Kamala Das aka Madhavikutty aka Kamala Surayya rode the waves of fantasy and reality, merging religion with nature at its crest. Sulochana talks about Surayya’s tryst with religion and nature. After reading her last poems, Sulochana who grew up with her sister’s insights into images of Krishna and the world at large believes that her conversion to Islam was a result of her approach to God as one with a form to that of formless. As a little girl of nine, Madhavikutty used to see visions of Krishna riding on her walls with the herd of cows, the music of his flute ringing in her ears. “Once when she had fever, she woke up in the middle of the night and said that she saw Krishna pass by and their parents tried to pacify her and called the doctor in fear. The doctor said it must be hallucination and gave her medicine, but she saw the same vision the next day. I believe what she saw was true for the way she described Krishna and his smile was so credible,” said Sulochana.“She said the colour of Krishna is purple when we spoke over many things over breakfast after years in Kochi. “One day as I read about the purple colour of Krishna, she said, ‘Yesterday I saw a purple-clad full sleeved Krishna with greying hair driving an autorickshaw with me behind, crushing the yellow flowers carpeting the roads. When I asked him why he was crushing the flowers, he turned and smiled, the same smile which I saw as a nine-year-old.”’ From the image of Krishna Madhavikutty next saw a light filling her room, flowing between her toes and fingers, as she evolved from one who worships images to that of the imageless.
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