DESIGN BRIEF: Library shelves resist Mithila contour — real books lean, titles shout, fluorescent stacks flatten folk grammar. Kachni solves the translation: open volumes become parallel page-line hatching fields, closed covers flatten to Bharni orange and green slabs with brown spine bands, and fourfold rotational symmetry turns a horizontal shelf into a diamond cross that reads equally from every wall angle. I chose Shantiniketan as region anchor because Literary Bengal already lives inside folk reading memory — palm-leaf manuscripts, Tagore-era chapras, Visva-Bharati courtyard libraries — without needing English captions on canvas. Corner knowledge trees with almond leaves replace campus photography; quadrant birds carry classical messenger symbolism the way parrots and owls guard homestead walls in Jitwarpur panels. The centre eight-petaled flower is the bindu where all four book arms meet — mandala logic for a subject that has no natural radial deity. Lotus square-panel border and inner lattice band hold the fusion inside Mithila frame discipline so the piece reads folk-first, library-second.