: ‘A Letter to Ma’: To writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen from her daughter (and translator) Nandana Dev Sen #IndiaNEWS A Letter to MaIt is trueI was created in you.It is also trueThat you were created for

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‘A Letter to Ma’: To writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen from her daughter (and translator) Nandana Dev Sen #IndiaNEWS
A Letter to MaIt is trueI was created in you.It is also trueThat you were created for me.My first semester in college. You arrived in between your conferences, suitcases and admirers in tow. Refusing abundant offers of hospitality in Cambridge, you shared (and immediately redecorated) the one and a half rooms assigned to my two roommates and me. Every morning, you stood in line in our noisy dormitory to claim your three minutes in the shower. You preferred the modern steel-and-glass shower stalls opposite our room to the quieter, more old-fashioned bathroom down the hall.You left after a week, just as I was getting used to finding your hip-length hair in my comb, and turning every head in the one-thousand-strong Harvard Union when you swept into dinner with me, gliding in like a queen, like you always did. A few weeks later, we hit midterm exams. I overslept the first day, found the showers occupied and sprinted to the other bathroom in panic. As I stumbled onto freezing tiles and fiddled with the cranky knob that spurted cold water for red and boiling for blue, something miraculously familiar caught my eye. A crimson dot of velvet on the narrow grey wall. Your well-travelled bindi, carefully transported from your...Read more

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