Background
Nilima was born as Nilima Gupta in Kolkata, India on April 28, 1928.
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Her parents moved to Shantiniketan when she was six.She had her education there and completed diploma course in Classical Music & Rabindra Sangeet from Santiniketan.She also did her Bachelor of Arts from the Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan.
Career
She had the privilge of acting under the direction of Tagore but that was not staged.She sang in the presence of Gandhiji, Subhash Bose et cetera during their visit to Santiniketan. Her Guru was mainly Shri Sailajaranjan Mazumder. She has a daughter Nilanjana who also is a singer.
She founded the music school "Surangama" along with Prasad Senator and later joined Sangeet Bhavan as a Faculty.
Foreign a couple of years, she taught music at Bardhhaman University. She became the Principal of Sangeet Bhavan & retired from there.
As a Faculty, she took part in various dance dramas like Tasher Desh, Mayar Khela (along with Suchitra Mitra), Sesh Raksha (along with Supriyo Tagore) organised by Vishwa Bharati & staged at auditoriums like Rabindra Sadan, New Empire Kolkata. Songs like "Chokher jaler laglo joar", "Aha tomar sange", "Bajao re mohan banshi" found correct expression through the embedded sadness in her voice.
She performed all over India, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, United States, Burma & Malaysia.
She has a number of Music Albums to her cartulary-register She expired in 1996 after a prolonged illness.
