A child is sensitive to pictures even before it can speak. This is not surprising if we consider that a baby easily distinguishes between its mother’s face and other familiar faces on the one hand, and strangers on the other hand

From this project, I intend to contribute to the overall development of the child by stimulating his imagination, arousing his perception, developing his potential and to increase their sense of observation.Moral stories can help a young child to go ahead with positivity and learn good things. 

I want to make it simple and direct so that the concept of “seeing things through a child’s eyes,” perfectly completed my artistic vision and beliefs.

Once upon a time, there lived a herd of eighty thousand elephants at the bottom of the majestic Himalayas. Their leader was a magnificent and rare white elephant who was an extremely kind-hearted soul.

He greatly loved his mother who has grown old and feeble and could not look out for herself. Each day this white elephant would go deep into the forest in search of food. He would look for the best of wild fruit to send to his mother.

One day a King of Banaras - Brahmadutta’s personal elephant had just died and the King was looking for a new elephant.The forester started hunting and got the white elephant while he was in the search of food for his mother. Forester immediately went up to the King and told him about the white elephant that he had seen on Mount Candorana. He told him that he had marked the way and would require the help of the elephant trainers in order to catch this fantastic elephant.

After traveling for many days, the group reached the lake beside which the elephants resided. They slowly moved down to the edge of the lake and hid in the bushes. The white elephant was collecting food for his mother’s meal and could sense the presence of humans. When he looked up, he spotted the forester and realized that it was he who had led the King’s men to him. He was very upset at the ingratitude but decided that if he put up a struggle many of the men would be killed. And he was just too kind to hurt anyone. So he decided to go along with them to Benaras and then request the benevolent King to be set free.​​​​​​​

That night when the white elephant did not return home, his mother was very worried.She just lay down and cried bitterly.

Meanwhile her son was led in to the beautiful city of Benaras where he was given a grand reception. He did not respond to any kind of stimuli, be it the fragrant flowers or the beautiful and comfortable stable. He just sat there looking completely despondent.

The worried trainers went straight to report the situation to their King, as they were scared that the elephant would just waste away without any food or water. The King was extremely concerned when he heard what they had to say and call the elephant. The white elephant replied that he would not eat a thing until he met his mother. So the King asked him where his mother was. The elephant replied that she was back home on Mount Candorana and must be worried and hungry as she was old and feeble and had no one to feed her and take care of her. He was afraid that she would die.

The compassionate King was touched by the elephant’s story and asked him to return to his blind, old mother and take care of her as he had been doing all along. He set him free in love and kindness. The happy elephant went running home as fast as he could. And he was relieved to find that his mother was still alive. He filled his trunk with water and poured it over his sick mother who thought that it was raining. The white elephant gently bent over his mother and stroked her lovingly. Her son lifted her up and told her that the kind and compassionate King of Benaras had set him free and he was here to love and look after his mother forever.

The white elephant was able to take good care of his mother till the day she died. And when he died himself, the King erected a statue of him at his palace and held an annual elephant festival there in memory of such a caring and noble soul.