In 2008, Singh decided to make an exhibition of her Calcutta portraits at the Bose Pacia Gallery in Kolkata. When Singh began making family portraits in the mid 90s, she embarked on what was to become a decades-long documentation of several families and women living in Calcutta. She began by photographing her Calcutta family and their friends, who gradually introduced her to their friends, who further introduced her to their friends.

She titled the show ‘Ladies of Calcutta’ and exhibited a total of 108 prints of her friends and their families. In the last days of the exhibition, just as she had in Goa a decade earlier, she invited everyone to come to the gallery to take their framed images home. A dining table with white cloth covers was set up with hors d’oeuvres and wine. It was like a going-home party for the portraits. All the visitors had to do was announce themselves to the receptionist, confirm they were taking their own portrait, and then take the prints off the wall. The works were never readied for transportation and delivery, so the families embraced their images in their arms as they carried them home.

Slowly, the exhibition dismantled itself over the course of a few days until, eventually, only the nails were left. The images now hang in 66 homes across Calcutta in what Singh calls her “on-going exhibition”.

Singh also showed Sent a Letter in the ‘Ladies of Calcutta’ and it was during this time that she placed it in the vitrines in the shop-window of Satramdas Dhalamal Jewellers in Park Street, Kolkata, Singh’s longest running exhibition at just over a decade.