Satish Gujral was born on 25 December 1925 at Jhelum in undivided Punjab and died in New Delhi on 26 March 2020 at the age of 94. He lost his hearing as a child, and worked across painting, sculpture, murals, graphics and architecture over a career spanning seven decades. His early work responded directly to the trauma of Partition, and he later trained in Mexico under the muralists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, an influence visible in his large-scale public work. As an architect he designed the Belgian Embassy in New Delhi, which was selected by the International Forum of Architects among the thousand finest buildings of the twentieth century and earned him Belgium's Order of the Crown. He received the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 1999. His elder brother, Inder Kumar Gujral, was Prime Minister of India in 1997-98.