India, Sept. 16 -- It is a non-rush hour afternoon at a Metro station. A handful of commuters walk down the staircase and out onto a road crammed with autos, scooters, cars, trucks and UP Roadways buses. Apartment towers rise beyond trees. A banquet hall sits under a blue roof. Power cables crisscross the grey sky.

It could be almost anywhere in Delhi. The station sign supplies the answer: Vaishali. This locality is not in Delhi, but in UP's zila Ghaziabad. The Delhi Metro ends here, but the Delhi-like world does not.

This page will visit the last stops of all the lines of the Delhi Metro, and see what lies in them. no, what lies outside them. Vaishali happens to be one such end point. (Or a starting point if you, dear reader, live here...