"A gentle rise of green wraps around you as you approach the heart of the memorial—a quiet, circular structure cradled within a berm. There’s stillness in the air, almost sacred. As you walk its spiral path, ascending then descending, light filters through a rooftop jaali, casting shifting shadows. On it, names appear, etched in memory, like that of Mohan Chand Sharma, who fell in the Batla House encounter.

This is the winning design for the National Police Memorial, by Delhi-based architects Sidhartha Talwar and Nikhil Dhar of Studio Lotus. Set at the head of Shantipath Vista, the memorial becomes an axis of remembrance—green lawns, marble walls with trickling water, and trees standing like sentinels of the police forces.

At its core a 25-metre-wide jaali structure, encircling the national emblem in sandstone. The ramps rising from the berm offer evolving glimpses of the space, until one reaches a vantage where the abstract becomes real—Shantipath stretching towards Rashtrapati Bhavan, the land forming lotus petals below.

Beneath it all lies a museum housing uniforms, medals, and the voices of the fallen. Not merely a monument, this is a living space of gratitude, honour, and quiet reflection."