Rajabai Clock Tower

This guide to the Rajabai Clock Tower in Mumbai opens with a stockbroker named Premchand Roychand and his blind mother Rajabai, who could not tell when the sun went down and so could not observe her own fast after dusk. It follows the fortune he spent and the condition he set, naming the tower for her, and the London architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, who designed it without ever visiting India. Look up at the stained glass and the bells above, and picture the sixteen tunes they once played four times a day.