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During the festival of the Ramlila, the streets of the city of Varanasi, India, are transformed into dramatic stages, where the "gods" descend onto the earth and ‘play’, in the form of children. Who are the children who become gods? What are their lives like?

A group of actors, artists, and teachers worked with children from a Varanasi neighbourhood to teach theatre, history, and self-identity. They encountered support and prejudice from the community and a child's world unforgiving in its realities and universal in its imagination and discoveries.

This film is about their journey.

(61 mins, 2008, DVD video NTSE)

Screenings include the Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC; The University of Chicago; The University of Pennsylvania; Temple University; Yale University; The New York Conference on Asian Studies; Cornell Cinema, Cornell University; Claremont McKenna College; Kalamazoo College; The University of Virginia; India International Centre, New Delhi, India; The Centre for Postcolonial Education, Varanasi, India.

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