Who is nandana sen

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My first book actually came out of a workshop I had done with children, who had been rescued from trafficking and from the streets. I would do workshops, which [involved] performance, music, singing, dancing theater. That would be a way of encouraging kids [too] traumatized to express themselves.

And it was part of the rehabilitation and reintegration process. Usually kids have much to say, but one particular group was very shy. Everybody in the group felt that others were much better. To break the ice, I created this character of a monkey who was really shy and and wanted to fly like her friend Coco, the crow; to swim like her friend Tonga, the turtle.

Then… we [described] a forest fire in which she was the hero and saved all her friends. That became our play. And then that turned into my first book. While I was working with kids, there were all these stories that kept coming out of the [workshops]. Eventually, I moved to my home in Brooklyn, New York. Because I was very busy in India, both as an actor, and as an activist.

I love acting, I miss it. If I was living at home, like my mother did with her mother, things would have been easier. I was in Bombay. I decided to focus on writing. And, then I met my husband. I actually met him in Jaipur. But we became friends. I already had my place in Williamsburg and I was going back-and-forth between Bombay and Brooklyn.

We intersected in New York when we were here, and eventually got married. And we had our daughter. We adopted together. So you came full circle. You started on this journey when you were a student at Harvard. It was born out of need to [translate her poems for her readings in America]. My mother, interestingly, was a brilliant translator herself. That was one of her biggest passions.

She was unbelievably prolific, she had more than books in print when she died, and she wrote all the time. She also included the oral songs, not just written poetry happening in the cities. She translated [work] from around the world, but she did not like translating her own work. And her work on that was done.

We loved traveling together. We made a list of places she that she wanted to go to, and I decided about 10 years ago that I would bully her into making those trips with me. We went to practically every place on that list — China, Egypt, Africa. We were in Beijing. And I decided that we should use some of those poems in this reading. I translated a few of them very quickly…This was nine years ago when we were in Beijing, that I did that those translations, which she loved.

On her 75th birthday, which was the next year, I did a whole book. What does it feel like to be on the verge of launching this book, and paying homage to all her work? How did you choose? She was really excited about it. She was writing almost till the end. She had a weekly column that was wildly popular, and wrote about this book in her last column, and how much she was looking forward to it.

This has a very special meaning. I feel more strongly about this than any of my other books…because she published her first book when she was not even That is not the easiest thing. But it was basically what I did at last. She died about 18 months ago. She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer exactly a year before died.