India, March 23 -- Meadows of Life-Scape at Government Museum is a spectacular display by Madan Lal, a young man who came from Talwandi Bhai, near Punjab's Moga, to the Chandigarh College of Art in 1982 to realise his dreams of studying a discipline that was close to his heart. The road to this realisation was not an easy one and it meant hard work, exposure to new learning, nights awake on the terrace of the senior magical painter Raj Kumar and in the company of Sidharth the mendicant painter, story-teller Mohan Bhandari among others, listening to the night-long stories of Laali the 'Sawant' of Patiala. This was indeed the best artistic school of learning the arts outside the predictable and often stuffy and convoluted classrooms that ou...