Nandana blogs on iTimes

Joining the iTimes family of celebrity bloggers for Diwali is gorgeous international actress Nandana Sen, daughter of Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen and Padma Shri author Nabanita Dev Sen.
If you thought beauty seldom went with brains, read her first emotional outburst for the festive season. Writes the supremely talented Nandana:
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���My poet grandmother once told me, words didn���t matter, feelings did.She liked my teen sweetheart, and though she trusted us enough to let us burn fireworks out on the street all night long at Diwali, she didn���t allow us alone in my room ever. So every day after school, rain or shine, he and I would walk to the monastery by the lake, to listen to the rhythmic roll of the huge flat drum. Meanwhile, Dimma continued giving rigorous lessons in propriety. Not long after, I was flying to school in the States. After a teary goodbye Dimma suddenly called me back. ���Shut the door,��� she said with urgency. ���Remember the boy-girl stuff I told you?��� I nodded reassuringly. ���Forget it,��� she said. ���They���re just words.��� As I stared in shock, she whispered, ���Feelings are more important. Enjoy every moment, every feeling ��� even if it���s sad later.
This was the matriarch who heartlessly dragged us out of bed for Mahalaya ��� as every radio in the neighborhood broke into exuberant prayer, celebrating the birth of the perfect Goddess. That day, realizing that distance would not allow her to guide me through my coming of age, Dimma tried, with all her heart, to facilitate the inevitable birth of one (imperfect) woman. Little did she know, the birthing in question would prove to be impossibly long and labored ��� and as yet incomplete.
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