The brief was a translation problem, not a postcard: how does a compressed-metal auto rickshaw — asymmetric, hinged, exhaust-stained — read inside Mithila line without looking like clip art pasted on rice paper? Bharni gave the answer. Flat mustard and indigo fields carry the Delhi livery at folk scale; double black contours replace panel gaps and chrome with the same stroke weight used on wedding elephants and village carts. Diagonal-flow symmetry was the layout fix — the three-wheel profile cannot sit square like a Kohbar lotus, so the vehicle cuts bottom-left to centre-right on a dashed road band while the tree-and-bird sky and fish-and-wave ground hold the vertical frame. What we simplified: engine detail, passenger faces, registration plates. What we kept legible: canopy fringe, mirror stalks, bench arches, and that single round headlight. The fish border is not decoration filler — it re-anchors a petrol-era street machine inside Mithila water-and-fertility symbolism so the piece stays folk first, Delhi second.