Ameena Ahmad Ahuja is an Indian painter, calligrapher, writer and linguist, known for her Urdu poetry-inspired art works.[1]
Biography
Ameena Ahmad Ahuja was born to a British mother and Nuruddin Ahmed, a barrister and litterateur. She did her training in art at the Slade School of Art in London.[2] She is a former member of faculty of the Department of Russian at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)[2] and, besides Russian, she is proficient in languages such as Persian, German, French, Hindi and English.[1] Her career also covered stints at Columbia University as a lecturer of poetry and as an Artist-in-residence at the Harvard University and her exhibitions have been staged at many places in India[3] and abroad including Moscow, Tokyo, Venezuela, Columbia and New York.[4] She has served as the official translator during the visits of Soviet dignitaries including Alexei Kosygin, Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev to India.[1]
She was married to Vishnu Ahuja, a diplomat and former ambassador to the USSR and had opportunities to visit many countries, accompanying her husband, who has since died.[1]
Publications
She is the author of the book, Calligraphy in Islam, a text in Urdu, published 2009 by Penguin India.[5]
Awards and honours
The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2009, for her contributions to Arts.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Calligraphying Poetry on Canvas. The South Asian(April 2005). Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Amazing synthesis of art, poetry(17 May 2007). Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ Animal verse. India Today(5 March 2001). Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ Ameena Ahmad Ahuja donates 33 paintings to Jamia Millia Islamia. One India(16 May 2007). Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ Calligraphy in Islam{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Penguin India(2009). ISBN 9780670082605
- ↑ Padma Awards. Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India(2016). Retrieved 3 January 2016.
Further reading
- Calligraphy in Islam{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Penguin India(2009). ISBN 9780670082605
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