An artistic interpretation of a section of the night sky over New Delhi on January 26, 1950 and a Foucault pendulum inside the new Parliament building drew crowds on Sunday, with several MPs and other dignitaries posing for pictures against them.
The Foucault pendulum, named after French physicist Léon Foucault, is used to demonstrate the earth’s rotation. At the latitude of Parliament, it takes 49 hours, 59 minutes and 18 seconds for the pendulum to complete one rotation.
Above the pendulum, on the ceiling, six individual panels depict the artistic interpretation of the section of the night sky and celestial bodies present over New Delhi on the midnight of January 26, 1950.
