Maria Renee Cura

Maria Renée Cura was an Argentinian geographer, writer and Indologist.[1] She was the founder of Anand Bhavan, a centre for Indological studies, at her native place, Chivilcoy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, named after the present day Allahabad museum and the former residence of Nehru family.[2]

Maria Renée Cura
Born
Argentina
Died12 July 2007
OccupationGeographer, writer
AwardsPadma Shri

Works

Cura authored several books, Islas Malvinas y Antártida Argentina,[3] Islas Malvinas y Antártida Argentina and Islas Malvinas, Georgias, Sandwich del Sur y Antártida Argentina being some of the notable ones.[4] She also translated the Letters to the Young People, a work by Indira Gandhi,[5] and started a magazine, India eterna y actual, in 1987 which became defunct after her death.[2] She was the president of the South Foundation, founded by Victoria Ocampo[6] and maintained close associations with the Argentinian intellectual and Indira Gandhi, the former prime minister of India.[7] The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1984.[8] Cura died on 12 July 2007.[9]

See also

References
  1. Ram Nandan Prasad Sinha (1990). Environment and Human Response: Selected Essays in Geography. Concept Publications. p. 340. ISBN 9788170222439.
  2. "Homage to Maria Rene Cura, 1 December 2007". Latin America Affairs. 2 December 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  3. "Islas Malvinas y Antártida Argentina". We Relate. 2015. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  4. "Cura, Maria Renee". BNM. 2015. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  5. Indira Gandhi (translation: Renée Maria Cura) (1982). Letters to the Young People. Nivicke. p. 127. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06.
  6. "The red suitcase of Victoria Ocampo". Lanacion. 31 December 2006. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  7. Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo (2009). This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292778603.
  8. "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 15, 2014. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  9. "Renée Maria Cura - Consultation and obituaries dead people". Date as. 13 July 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2015.


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