Satish Shah The Missing Blueprint The rain hit the windowpanes of the twelfth-floor conference room like a drummer gone mad. Below, Mumbai’s Friday traffic looked like molten steel trapped in a forge—bright, hot, and slow. Inside, the room was ice cold, despite the storm outside. Empty leather chairs faced a glass podium. Journalists muttered under their breath, their cameras idle, their pens dry. The event of the year was twenty minutes late. Where was Ayaan Mehta? At precisely 7:00 p.m., the launch of The Skyveil—India’s tallest and most audacious skyscraper—was supposed to begin. Designed by the reclusive architectural genius Ayaan…