| She had a precocious talent for painting that was noticed early, and she was encouraged in her pursuit by her uncle, Ervin Baktay, an Indologist and a former painter himself. |
| One of the first to hear about it was the Hungarian-born Indologist and explorer Aurel Stein, who was then in the middle of his second archaeological expedition to Central Asia. |
| The Max Mueller Bhavans are named after the great German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Friedrich Max Mueller. |
