Educated at
the Lawrence School, Sanawar, where she began to paint in earnest, Ahluwalia married an
Indian Army officer and has two daughters. In 1998 she began to sell her paintings at exhibitions in
Delhi. In the early part of her career Ahluwalia painted human figures, mostly women and children, often using only the palette knife and focussing on the eyes. She said of this preference in 2011 In painting figures, Ahluwalia likes to showcase the huge range of clothes worn by women around the
Indian subcontinent, including traditional and tribal dress. Ahluwalia has been called a "society painter", now called The Orchid, and launched her own
scent called "Sohni Kurhi". In August 2011, after a break of four years, Ahluwalia and her daughter Malika opened a joint exhibition at the Arpana Fine Arts Gallery, near
Siri Fort, called "Walking on Sunshine", when she explained her wish to celebrate the benefits of sunshine. ==Notes==