Midnight Lampshade Library Patna Milky Way

A frayed paper lampshade dominates the center of a dusty wooden table, its surface textured with layers of gray dust and faint limewash stains. The room glows with an unnatural neon reflection that casts sharp blue and violet streaks across the worn wood grain. Behind the lampshade, a window reveals a paradox: a bright blue sky filled with the dense, white band of the Milky Way arching clearly in broad daylight. Condensation beads along the edge of a nearby glass tumbler, reflecting the impossible celestial light. The table holds scattered papers and a rusted pen, at the base of the surreal sky in the gritty reality of a midnight library in Patna. The dust motes hang suspended in the neon haze, catching the starlight from the impossible day.