Every night, for about 20 months, after the city shut down, transit mixers would lumber down the capital’s roads carrying concrete from a ‘batching’ plant in west Delhi’s Kirti Nagar to the site of the new Parliament, 11 km away.
Nearly 1,200 km away in Bihar’s Madhubani, 75 women artisans from across the country were working through the night to create an 80-feet long ‘people’s wall’ for the new Parliament building as 70 sculptors toiled away at Odisha’s Lalitgiri Village to give life to the six ‘guardian statues’ which flank the six entrances to the building.
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