Her father, who built the Mackinnon Mackenzie building in Calcutta and was a councillor of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation, belonged to an eminent family of builders.
On the maternal side of her family, she was a great-granddaughter of Brajendranath De.
She was a disciple of Dilipkumar Roy, with whom she composed several songs.
Such was her popularity, that Mahatma Gandhi once described her as 'The Nightingale of Bengal' in 1937.
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