 After finishing his degree, Qadri returned home to Phagwara and joined the faculty of the Phagwara Teachers Training College for three years.In 1961, Dr. Mulk Raj Anand, the founder and editor of the art journal "Marg", and associate of the Bloomsbury Group of London, saw Qadri's work at a faculty exhibition, and became his first patron.Anand visited Phagwara in 1963 with Pierre Jeanneret, an architect and cousin of the architect Le Corbusier, who acquired a painting for his collection.