 He moved to Bombay in 1944 and enrolled in the Sir JJ School of Art.In 1947, due to a recurring sickness, he was forced to drop out of school and leave Bombay.In 1952, Gujral received a scholarship to study at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, where he was apprenticed to the renowned artists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.