María Renée Cura was an Argentine 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.
[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 Argentine 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.