The Memento

Shelly is an excellent craftswoman. Her beautiful, lyrically wavy embroideries are in high demand in the handicraft markets.

- DHRUBA BASU

Celebrities place their orders to her for exquisitely designed wrappers, t-shirts, sarees, trousseau, etc. Shelly grew up in the school of hard knocks. After her father Raghunath's death, she and her mother took shelter in the latter's sons' houses where Shelly had to work as a domestic help. She was attacked by tuberculosis which stopped her education. Now she does not keep in touch with her real brothers because of that agonizing past and because her brothers have deprived her of her share of the property Raghunath had left. She however keeps in touch with a cousin brother named Aniket whom she calls her real brother.