India, April 12 -- Rehnuma means illuminating the path. In 2001, twin girls were born to a family of labourers. One of them, named Rehnuma Rani by her distraught parents, was delivered with permanent deformities. One hand was not there. The other had stubs for fingers. Her right leg was shorter by seven inches. Fearing incompatibility, the mother did not send Rehnuma to school. But she noticed that her daughter was stubborn enough to grip a piece of chalk between two toes of her left foot and endlessly scrawl on the hovel floor when her siblings were at school. From those indomitable doodlings was to emerge an inspirational nature artist. Rehnuma was mocked cruelly by her classmates when her mother finally enrolled her in a Chandigarh school. But ceaseless art saved her. Under teacher guidance, art gave her an outlet. It ignited her dormant creativity and channelled her intense agony to a path of achievement. She passed Class XII and is the final year of a postgraduate programme (Master of Fine Arts) at the Government College of Art (GCA), UT. Her physically able twin sister, Khushnooda, had sacrificed her college enrolment to prioritise the family's meagre income in favour of Rehnuma's GCA fees. Rehnuma's maturing skills and sense of aesthetic composition bagged her multiple awards. The latest came this week for her lush oil painting, Anaar (Pomegranate), which was bestowed one of the three principal awards by a three-member jury constituted by WE - A Group of Indian Contemporary Women Artists, Chandigarh. Anaar was on display at 'ARTAURA', the 24th All India Annual Exhibition staged under the aegis of WE at Government Museum & Art Gallery. Trees, birds, butterflies and a natural effervescence characterise Chandigarh. It is Rehnuma's eternal muse. "I paint my dreams of nature and my observations of trees as I travel through Chandigarh on a bus," Rehnuma said....