Murals from the Secunderabad Club, depicting scenes from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Photo taken by Ramu Katakam

Murals painted circa January/February, 1938

"I fulfilled a commission to mural the walls of the main room of the Secunderabad Club. I don't remember how long I stayed there, only that it must have been the best part of a month, since there was a lot of wall space to fill. ... They have come out beautifully, despite the fact that my medium was no more than good old Indian whitewash, coloured with little packets of powdered dye that I bought in the bazaar of Hyderabad city...

(Extract from Enchanted Evening, volume 3 of M M Kaye's autobiography, page 259).