The people who ran the relay.

Roles repeat. People don’t. These are the hands the baton actually passed through — each story record a life read whole, not a chapter filed under the wrong heading.

PROFILEJagadish Chandra BoseThe man the world begged to patent — and still refused. PROFILEMahendralal SircarThe doctor who walked away from the busiest practice in Calcutta to dig a farm. PROFILEPrafulla Chandra RayDiscovered a compound Europe applauded — then decided a factory was the better paper. PROFILEMeghnad SahaExpelled at thirteen for defying a Lieutenant-Governor — answered with the equation that reads the stars. 212 ELEMENTSThe Builders’ TableThe full census of the farm — a story record behind every tile.

Four profiles stand open; the full census — every builder, placed by course and generation — lives on the table itself.