Hemangini, a descendent of the Royal Family of Bikaner, is the great granddaughter of Maharaja Ganga Singh (1880-1943), a well known patron and connoisseur of fine arts. The city of Bikaner in north-west Rajasthan houses in its Fort Museum one of the best archives of Royal Rajasthani Folk Textiles. Her passion and appreciation for the beauty of handcrafted textiles led her to the villages, experimenting, rejuvenating, restoring folk art traditions. She gained special skills in Hand block printing of ‘Sanganer’, in Natural dyeing of ‘Bagru’ in Rajasthan, and in Patola weaving of Gujarat.

In the early 1960s, Louis I. Kahn was invited by the West Pakistani government to design the buildings that would serve as their eastern capital, which, after the East Pakistani freedom struggle, became the Capital Complex of Bangladesh. Sundaram Tagore’s 8-year film-making journey is a tribute Kahn’s famous Parliamentary Complex Sher-e Bangla Nagor, also known as the Tiger City’. In order to make this feature-length documentary film, Tagore’s quest led him to more than fourteen countries to find out how this visionary American architect built such a daringly modern and monumental complex in Bangladesh.