Designldg's photos with the child

"When we are children we seldom think of the future.
This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can.
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."
(From “The Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss)

This…

“In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess.
She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way.
I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
(From “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms” by N.K.…

"The oldest living city in the world".
This is a picture that I shot last Sunday as I was living the Tibetan Temple in Sarnath near Varanasi (Benaras).
The car was along the wall of a house which is just in front of the Temple and I saw this young boy who…

"The oldest living city in the world".
As I was walking in a little street which is leading to the Nepali temple in Varanasi (Benaras) I met this young boy who was busy with a kite.
He didn't mind that I was taking a few pictures of him and he was making…

This was shot in the immediate vicinity of Varanasi (Benaras) in a part of the city which is located further the railroad station, where tourists never go and where I realize how extended the city can be.
I had a meeting with some people who were late and…

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
Quote by George Washington Carver (1864–1943), American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor.

Sometimes I can enjoy the golden lectures spread along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras), th…

Those three young Tibetan monks were climbing the staircase leading to the Mahabodhi Temple, the place of Gautama Buddha's attainment of nirvana (Enlightenment), in Bodh Gaya (बोधगया), in the Indian state of Bihar.
I could feel a state of happiness everyw…

"Dear Leonard.
To look life in the face.
Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is.
At last to know it.
To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
Leonard.
Always the years between us.
Always the years.
Always the lov…

"Rights of the children are not questionable.
Child labor is not negotiable.
Child labor is the worst form of modern slavery.
Whatever excuse people may have, employing kids full-time is child labor."

Recently I saw those words on a wall in Sarnath, at t…

Varanasi is at crossroad between Nepal, Bihar, Bengal, Mumbai (...), many trucks drive there, many visitors come, also many young women who sometimes meet the worst...

Some become prostitutes, some have children whom future seemed to be no better.

Guri…