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Mrs. Kamal Das (b. 1921) was awarded the Sahitya Academy Prize in 1983 for her very first novel Amritasya Putree (daughter of Immortality in English Version). She started writing late but ‘arrived immediately. Even as her first writings began to appear in periodicals she was hailed as the Bengali literature’s Discovery in the International Women’s Year and invited to inaugurate the Year’s celebrations at the birthplace of Sarat Chatterji, the great champion of women’s cause in literature. Enriched with the experience of rural districts where her father was a Judge before elevation to the High court and with the experience of life in New Delhi where here husband Debesh Das, ICS, served long until retirement as Secretary to the Government of India, Kamal Das has had there opportunity of bringing a mature reflective mind to bear upon her writings comparing and contrasting different types of people and their minds. Her extensive travels have given her a deep insight and understanding. Within this short period. Kamal Das has produced six novels and three intellectual travelogues in Bengali with two more in the offing. Much more than travelogues these are a presentation through anecdotes and descriptions of an experience, of deep feelings conveyed with rare wit and grace. She has indeed opened a new vista in literature.