My First Blog Post
.
Rohini Rau
CHENNAI: She’s 22, beautiful, athletic and steadfast. Rohini Rau’s sailing adventures take her all around the globe and she lives it up with ardour. And that said, it is natural for this dame to wake up feeling homesick.That is one of the reasons why Rohini eagerly looks forward to Diwali every year, “I love the very feel of Diwali. It brings me closer to my near and dear ones and reminds me how much I need them,” she says.Every year, Diwali at home keeps her on her toes. “it’s that time of the year when our house is always filled with people and we in turn are always visiting more people. At home or at my cousins’, I decorate the house, the gifting trays and the pooja mandap.All the artistic work is mine,” she smiles. And then taking a break from work and digging into the sweets of course is the best part.“But my most memorable Diwali was last year. I was in Korea, along with a bunch of Indian girls and we celebrated our own little Diwali with our Korean friends. They loved our homemade sweets,” gleams Rohini.Ask her what the triumph of light over darkness, reminds her of in her own life, and she responds, “when I was younger, I had made up my mind that I wanted to take sailing, as a sport seriously, and alongside pursue medicine.Both being highly time-consuming, it was a tough journey.People kept telling me how this would never work out, but then there were always family and close friends who had so much faith in me that not once did I think about looking back,” she signs off.
On an adventurous high
Rohini Rau
First Published : 17 Oct 2009 01:27:00 AM IST
CHENNAI: She’s 22, beautiful, athletic and steadfast. Rohini Rau’s sailing adventures take her all around the globe and she lives it up with ardour. And that said, it is natural for this dame to wake up feeling homesick.That is one of the reasons why Rohini eagerly looks forward to Diwali every year, “I love the very feel of Diwali. It brings me closer to my near and dear ones and reminds me how much I need them,” she says.Every year, Diwali at home keeps her on her toes. “it’s that time of the year when our house is always filled with people and we in turn are always visiting more people. At home or at my cousins’, I decorate the house, the gifting trays and the pooja mandap.All the artistic work is mine,” she smiles. And then taking a break from work and digging into the sweets of course is the best part.“But my most memorable Diwali was last year. I was in Korea, along with a bunch of Indian girls and we celebrated our own little Diwali with our Korean friends. They loved our homemade sweets,” gleams Rohini.Ask her what the triumph of light over darkness, reminds her of in her own life, and she responds, “when I was younger, I had made up my mind that I wanted to take sailing, as a sport seriously, and alongside pursue medicine.Both being highly time-consuming, it was a tough journey.People kept telling me how this would never work out, but then there were always family and close friends who had so much faith in me that not once did I think about looking back,” she signs off.
