Where the floor runs out, and the drawing has to stop and wait for the rest of you.
17 entries on this part of the floor. 2020 CE – 2026 CE.
glass, cranes, drones · upper level
Kolkata ran the country’s only metro for eighteen years until Delhi’s first line opened in December 2002. Around two dozen cities now have one or are building one.
Find it on the floor: The 2026 Skyline
Cable-stayed, eight lanes, and it turned a 45-minute crawl into a seven-minute drive. The steel wire in it would reportedly circle the earth if laid end to end, which is the kind of fact engineers cannot resist.
Find it on the floor: The 2026 Skyline
Twenty-seven marble petals in nine groups of three, open to people of every faith and none. Among the most visited buildings on earth.
Find it on the floor: The 2026 Skyline
where your ₹10 goes · lower level
A UPI payment travels from your phone through a payment app, a switch, two banks and back, and the whole system handles well over half a billion transactions a day.
Find it on the floor: The UPI Server Farm
Diwali is the biggest transaction night of the year. Somebody has to be awake for it, and it is this person, every year, by rota.
Find it on the floor: The UPI Server Farm
2026 →
At 182 metres it is the tallest statue in the world, standing on an island in the Narmada and facing the dam. Its sculptor, Ram V. Sutar, worked until he was a hundred.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
Holding a plan of streets that meet at right angles, in a subcontinent that has spent the four thousand years since trying and failing to do it again.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
Reading small text on a very long drawing at what is, statistically, an unreasonable hour. Thank you for coming this far — there are about 600 things on this floor and most people find fewer than fifty.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
Never told a lie and never won a game of dice. Held to the first principle so hard that it cost his family a kingdom, a forest exile, and a war.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
About 1.46 billion people, a median age around 28, and more people under 25 than the entire population of Europe.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
One of Akbar's Navaratnas and the hero of several centuries of folk tales in which the answer is always simpler and funnier than anyone expected. Died on a campaign in the northwest, which the stories politely ignore.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
Conquered Kalinga, walked the battlefield afterwards, and had what is probably the most consequential change of heart in world history. Then carved his regret onto rocks across the empire so nobody could pretend it had not happened.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
Organised the Kaira district farmers into a cooperative in 1946 because the middlemen were paying them nothing. Hired Kurien. The whole thing was his idea first.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
Poet and organiser, hanged in 1927 for a train robbery carried out to fund the movement. He wrote a great deal of verse in prison, and much of the movement sang it.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
India has bid to host the Olympic Games and has already been awarded the 2030 Commonwealth Games. The stadium is built. The traffic plan is, as ever, optimistic.
Find it on the floor: The Sky Deck
the last stop · upper level
On the rock where he is said to have meditated for three days in 1892 before deciding what he was going to do with his life. The Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean meet just offshore.
Find it on the floor: Where Three Seas Meet
You can, on the right day of the year, watch the sun set and the moon rise over the same horizon. Also the only place in India where the sea is on three sides of you and everybody is taking the same photograph.
Find it on the floor: Where Three Seas Meet