Budweiser promises to restore art it plastered with Messi murals

The beer brand had painted over street art in Delhi and Mumbai, inviting social media outrage

The walls of Delhi and Mumbai recently became a theatre of disagreement between a street art organisation and a high-profile beer brand.

St+art India Foundation, which works with artists and has created public art in several cities, took to Instagram on April 3 to accuse Budweiser India of putting out murals on top of its existing paintings, thereby obliterating the earlier works.

For instance, in place of what was one of its earliest abstract murals painted on a primary school wall in Delhi’s Hauz Khas Village, now there are a couple of paintings on superstar footballer Lionel Messi. Similarly, on Chapel Road