by an accomplished piano player she was very good with music she had also acted movies but she gave it up for manik da she recognized manik da s talent so on that gave up own career to help with his work sharmila had said untitled photo by manobina roy all these creative giants were not alien to working with in cinema were efforts made to push not to give up her own must have told her but it nt work sandip says was perfectly happy home and liked maintaining a profile in the background was with mother teresa s institution and was also busy there right from the to the baba depended her a lot he used to depend on so that had she got busy with assignments she would have been able to devote time and baba perhaps have felt lost before the demise of the sens their kunal had said my mother comes from a the mind was indoctrinated that the wife s main responsibility is to support her husband and probably felt that was more needed manage things at and support my father manobina passed away her son joy received a book chobi tola bangalir photography chorcha taking pictures the of photography by bengalis where manobina and her twin were listed as two of the earliest photographers they were members of up postal portfolio circle a group created by the photographic society of which enabled members exchange by post and exhibit in other as well the first photograph under their names had come 1937 in the shochitro bharat in 1940 their photographs displayed at the allahabad salon she for the illustrated weekly of india femina her were illustrated her own photographs in 1951 the series twenty five of rabindranath tagore included the work one woman photographer it was the one taken by manobina of the poet in puri post marriage her black and white works bathed in ambient light were seen as album photography recently when walked up the wooden stairs to street arts centre in kolkata it was pleasant surprise no stretch of imagination her works a of a casual hobby the exhibition like a window to an unseen world of light and shade removed from the instagram pinterest feeds saturated and manobina s curated a world of black and populated by known faces like nehru and unknown children in natural and ambient light her notes alongside photographs revealed an understanding of the of a bygone sometimes she felt a sense of empathy the of elderly londoners seeking solace in chance exchange pleasantries on other