Kamalini is one of the leading exponents of Rabindranath Tagores songs, known in India and Bangladesh as Rabindra Sangeet. She has been trained from an early age at Dakshinee, a leading Rabindrasangeet academy in Kolkata, India.

Over the last 11 years she has performed extensively in India, US, Canada, and Bangladesh, and has been a regular face on Bengali television in India, Bangladesh, and the Bengali diaspora across the globe, including the US. In 2013 she went to Mauritius on a mission to teach and spread Tagores music in that country on a joint initiative between the Govt. of Mauritius and UNESCO, in commemoration of Tagores 150th birth anniversary. She has given a solo concert for the President of India, Sri Pranab Mukherjee, at Rashtrapati Bhavan (Indian Presidential Palace) in 2015. She has had solo and group performances at the North American Bengali Conferences (NABC) in 2013 in Toronto, and in 2016 in New York City. She sang for the 2005 movie Nishijapon, directed by Sandip Ray.

Kamalini has 12 albums with one of the leading music labels in India, Saregama, 7 of them solo. This includes a prestigious Best of Kamalini collection.

A student of South Point school, Kolkata, Kamalini completed her Bachelors in English Literature from Jadavpur University, India with a gold medal in 2001. She then won the (Bill) Gates Cambridge Scholarship and went to St Johns College, Cambridge, UK for a masters degree. On completing her degree, she spent a year in Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia, Italy on an exchange program with St. Johns College.

She aspires to take Tagores music to a wider international audience, cutting across generations and geographical boundaries.

She currently divides her time between Kolkata and San Francisco.