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To see and be seen is ‘darshan’.

We talk about ‘receiving’ darshan because the eyes of the deity see you, too.

Sai Baba, Jesus, Guru Nanak, Ganesh... they are all here, sub-contracted by the city to protect the architecture from bodily fluids.

As flat tiles, the gods and saints can see in 180 degrees. No one dares pee or spit on them, or anywhere near them.

The power of darshan is how hundreds of pan-soaked walls in Delhi are now places where you can make eye-contact with the divine.

Darshan is scalable: From tiles on walls, to massive mandirs, to the interiors of small boxes: