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Aliya Musina?Russian Tvg Menon?indian Academic freedom in Russia Born 2 B Free 2013 Signed Framed Pencil, pen and ink on paper 21 x 29.5 cm Guide Price £30 “ Aliya was born in 1992 near Kazan in Russia. At the age of seventeen she sought asylum in Switzerland, where her daughter, Alexandra, was born a year later. In Russia, she preferred to paint in a more classical style. She drew her first political cartoon in a Swiss integration school. She plans to paint in aquarelles depicting daily scenes of life in central Switzerland. 2013 Signed Framed Digital art 29.7 x 21 cm Guide Price £30 Currently on benefits, it is not easy to manage with my daughter in this expensive country. My art provides escape and inner freedom. aliya musina ” Lot 65 Tvg, alias ‘kar2nist’, is a freelance cartoonist with degrees in Physics and in Electrical Engineering (University of Delhi). He has been drawing cartoons since 1980, and is a regular contributor to one of India’s premier English dailies. Other publications include: The International Indian, a bi-monthly magazine published in Dubai, and four on-line cartoon magazines: Bostoons Themag, Toon Mag, Brazil Cartoon International, and Fenamizah. He was awarded the Kerala Cartoon Academy ‘Best Cartoon’ 2005 and received an Honourable Mention in 2011, as well as being honoured that year by the Lalitha Kala Academy (Kerala) as a senior cartoonist. He has participated in cartoon exhibitions in France, Croatia and Portugal with the Romanian Cartoon Association hosting a web page of his caricatures of Romanian personalities. More recently his cartoon of Chancellor Angela Merkel The German Dilemma was selected by Deutsche Welle as one of nine featured on their e-newspaper, and six cartoons on Climate Change in the Indian Context were exhibited during the 2013 International Conference on Climate Change and the Himalayas in New Delhi. His Toonpool.com gallery holds over 300 cartoons. 174 The Art of Resistance? Defending Academic Freedom Lot 64