Apart from the red and white Chinese lanterns gracing the roof of a Kala Ghoda gallery, albeit temporarily, there's little that comes in the way of this woman and her camera. Manobina Roy passed away in 2001 and she would have been 100 today. To most of the world, she is regarded as the wife of director Bimal Roy, whom she married at 17. But through her lifetime, she saw the world through a lens of independence; the first time, via a Brownie camera gifted to her identical twin Debalina and her on their 12th birthday by their father Binode Behari Sen Roy. She couldn't stop clicking, even after an eye impairment in '69. And nearly two decades after her death, 67 images captured by Roy will be displayed at an exhibition that opens today at ARTISANS'.

Bimal Roy with Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi