Bandra Worli Sea Link

This guide to the Bandra Worli Sea Link in Mumbai follows nine years of monsoon-halted construction, twin pylons rising a hundred and twenty-eight meters above the Arabian Sea, and steel cables enough, laid end to end, to circle the earth. It traces the bridge's naming after the assassinated prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, a proposal that dates back to a 1963 traffic study, and the litigation that stalled construction for years and pushed its budget far past the original estimate. Watch the fishermen still working the bay below, in boats older than the bridge above them.