Updated On: 26 July, 2010 06:50 AM IST | | The Guide Team
Childlike innocence meets the grisly face of death at India's largest cremation ground. At a screening of 2008 documentary Children of the Pyre, meet seven kids who keep Varanasi's pyres burning

Childlike innocence meets the grisly face of death at India's largest cremation ground. At a screening of 2008 documentary Children of the Pyre, meet seven kids who keep Varanasi's pyres burning
One might think children are too young to deal with death and the ugly face of mortality, but in Varanasi's Manikarnika, the biggest cremation ground in India, scores of children face it everyday.
Rajesh S Jala's path breaking documentary Children of The Pyre made in 2008 follows seven such children.
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