Nirmalya Kumar, professor of marketing at Singapore Management University, has a famed collection of Jamini Roy paintings. His favourite is Widow, Roy’s painting of a woman wearing a white sari with a black border.
“I did not ever intend to concentrate on Jamini Roy or Rabindranath Tagore, and in any case, am not a person who buys into labels such as Bengal School. Instead, I focus on individual artists. Jamini was the first Indian artist I fell in love with,” he said.
"Roy’s painting is his statement on the emancipation of widows. As a collector, this painting had everything one