BIO

Pukka Sahib was born in the United Kingdom. At the age of 10 he moved to Russia with his parents and three siblings. It was a bittersweet experience to him. Although he had to leave a remarkable country steeped in cultural diversity, he was excited to explore a new land. At the age of 17 his family had moved back to the United Kingdom leading Pukka to undergo a social dissonance where he felt the need to speak his truth about the political situation in Russia and had participated in several political meetings leading him to later on leave an anonymous life to secure his family in safety. Over the course of time, he had received multiple threats as he was taking part in different apolitical social events which made him become an anonymous painter so that he would be able to freely speak out through his art’

In 2006, Russian art magazine published an anonymous review, that stated: Little is known about Pukka Sahib and the origin of his name. Friends claim that he spent his childhood in the USSR where he studied at a closed Moscow boarding school on the outskirts of the capital. The children of the communist leaders of several countries of the world who were operating in the underground and who were sponsored by the Soviet leadership, studied there. In the early 1980s, Babrak Karmal, the head of Afghanistan came to that boarding school. He was deprived of power in 1986 with the arrival of Mikhail Gorbachev. One can only guess about the connection of the Afghan leader with Sahib's name.’

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