In the course of his long service at the University of Roorkee the author was ruefully surprised it note a near absence of any serious study of art (i.e. drawing and painting) in the Deptt. of Architecture and Planning. This and the inspiring encouragement given by Late Prof. G.M. Mandalia, the then head of the Deptt. of Architecture of planning, the author took up the subject of mural paintings in post-independence India. Four metropolitan cities viz. Delhi, ...
