<p>When Mahatma Gandhi was shot on January 30, 1948, Hingorani, then 23, was staying in a refugee camp in Delhi after his family shifted from Sindh during partition.<br /><br />"On hearing about Gandhi's assassination on radio, I rushed to Birla House with my painting kit," he said.<br /><br />With not much security and policing, Hingorani said he found his way into the room where Gandhiji's body lay on the ground, half-wrapped in white sheet, blood stains still fresh on his chest and floor.<br /><br />"There was complete chaos at Birla House and outside, with people crying and yelling....I started sketching, blood still fresh on Bapu's body and sheets," he said.<br /><br />"By the time I had finished three-fourth of the painting, I was physically pushed out of the room. Luckily, I managed to save the sketch, but lost all my art equipment," he said.<br />"On the lawns of Birla House the security guards grilled me for hours, as I was a refugee from Sindh in Pakistan, but was later released and managed to complete the painting late night, at the refugee camp."<br /><br />In 1971, Hingorani, a former principal of the Government of India's Extension Institute at Hyderabad, did a different kind of portrait to mark Gandhiji's birth centenary. It included famous sayings of the Mahatma in major Indian languages.</p>
<p>When Mahatma Gandhi was shot on January 30, 1948, Hingorani, then 23, was staying in a refugee camp in Delhi after his family shifted from Sindh during partition.<br /><br />"On hearing about Gandhi's assassination on radio, I rushed to Birla House with my painting kit," he said.<br /><br />With not much security and policing, Hingorani said he found his way into the room where Gandhiji's body lay on the ground, half-wrapped in white sheet, blood stains still fresh on his chest and floor.<br /><br />"There was complete chaos at Birla House and outside, with people crying and yelling....I started sketching, blood still fresh on Bapu's body and sheets," he said.<br /><br />"By the time I had finished three-fourth of the painting, I was physically pushed out of the room. Luckily, I managed to save the sketch, but lost all my art equipment," he said.<br />"On the lawns of Birla House the security guards grilled me for hours, as I was a refugee from Sindh in Pakistan, but was later released and managed to complete the painting late night, at the refugee camp."<br /><br />In 1971, Hingorani, a former principal of the Government of India's Extension Institute at Hyderabad, did a different kind of portrait to mark Gandhiji's birth centenary. It included famous sayings of the Mahatma in major Indian languages.</p>