EDUCATION

• B.Sc. Physics Honours, Calcutta University.
  
• Diploma in Applied Art & Design Studies (DADS) - Photography, London Metropolitan University.
  

OCCUPATION

Free-lance Photographer. Taught Photography at The School, KFI (Krishnamurthy Foundation Of India ), Madras 1986 to 1989.

Conducted workshops in colour Photography in Dhaka and Sylhet for DRIK, Bangladesh in 2003.

PUBLICATIONS IN INDIA & ABROAD THAT HAVE FEATURED HER WORK

Periodicals

India
Desh, Discover India, Femina, Hindu, India International Centre New Delhi, India Magazine, Indian Express, Inside Outside, Kolkata Inner Eye, Namaste, Oberoi Group, Parsiana, Reader's Digest, Signature, Swagat ( Indian Airlines), South India tourist guide, Times of India, Welcome Group.

UK
The BBC, The Cricketer and India Weekly. BLINK, a Phaidon Press publication, featured her among 100 Photographers of the World in 2002.

Australia
'Close Up'.

Germany
'Indien', a 2004 tourist guide.

Books

• 'Swami Dayananda Saraswati', a biography by Mrs Padma Narasimhan
• 'Ticket to Minto', a novel by the American writer S.H.Fracis
• 'Vinegar Sunday', a collection of short stories by Kankana Basu.
• 'The Tollygunj Club since 1895', a history of the club by Dr Amita Das and Pradip Das.

AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS

She was awarded The Art Prize by the Owen Rowley Art Foundation in London in 1993 and was among the prize winners in 'Our Big City' competition organized jointly by the Evening Standard Newspaper Group and Carlton TV in London in October 1993. In 1994 she was nominated for the Leopold Godowsky Jr. colour photography Awards of the Photographic Resource Centre, Boston. The Academy of Visual Media, New Delhi, awarded Mala their "Achievement Award" for outstanding contribution to Photography in January 2007.