Mukesh Parpiani, curator of the Piramal Art Gallery in assembling a 2009 exhibition that includes Gatha, has called him one of the "godfathers of Indian photography" amongst Praful Patel, A L Sayed, R R Bhardwaj, Jyoti Bhatt, T Kashin, Tarpada Banerjee, Pranlal Patel, and John Isaac.