Synopsis
- Sonu, a ten year old boy, lives in the Indian city Varanasi on the Ganges.
"My country is holy place" says Sonu and the city is seeped in this knowledge of its holiness: a place of faith, but also of death. Sonu's father works on the "Burning Ghats". Here, on the banks of the Ganges the dead are burnt day in, day out - in public and without any great ceremony - an everyday business.
Sonu explains the modest rite and describes soberly the practical treatment of the dead - also of those dead, who aren't burnt, but thrown into the river, food for fish or ravens.
