A Mother's Day offering

A letter from actor and writer Nandana Dev Sen to her mother, the writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen, and a poem by the mother, translated from the Bengali by her daughter

Happy Mother’s Day!

Today I bring you a special feature: a letter that Nandana Dev Sen — writer, actor, and child-rights activist — wrote to her mother. And a poem by her mother, the late writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen, that Nandana translated from the Bengali as part of a newly published collection called “Acrobat.”

I love that idea of child as translator, and…