For Chetan Kumar (@chetankumarstudio), a good education came at a heavy price. “I was sent to boarding school at a very young age,” he recalls. “With a heavy heart, I had to leave behind my parents, the beautiful village and countryside, the rivers and the boats, bicycle rides and kite flying.” Ironically, Chetan’s beloved home state of Bihar was considered one of the most undeveloped parts of India — notorious for poverty and crime. But it was his boarding school in northern India that Chetan found unbearable. “Hostel life was about survival among students,” he says. “There was always a timetable, always a plan and a task.” Finally at the age of 16, the schoolboy made a break, traveling on his own for almost 1,000 kilometers to return to his countryside village, in search of the “little adventures” of his lost childhood. Some 15 years later, now working as a photographer and cinematographer, Chetan continues to reclaim his memories, in a photographic homecoming that he calls “Bihar Odyssey.” But he still looks back to the day he ran away from school as a formative moment in his life and his work. “I had overcome my fear and inhibitions of traveling alone, and enjoyed it,” he says. Photo by @chetankumarstudio by instagram http://ift.tt/1JqNJ1c – Gatlinburg Garden Castle Rainbow Tower Library Imagination Station Temple Water Spirit Guardian Labyrinth Treasury Magic Healing