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Saroo is adopted when he’s six and grows up in Hobart, Tasmania. His Mum pins a map of India to his wall to make Saroo feel at home. Though Saroo has a relatively easy time adjusting to his new life, he does anxiously run through his memories of his Indian family every night.
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A week later, her father suggests a Kolkata suburb called Brahmapur, a remote city in West Bengal called Baharampur, and a coastal city called Brahmapur. Saroo rules out the first suggestion outright, but he wonders why none of the authorities tried to look for Kamla in any of those places.
The author and narrator of the book, Saroo was born “Sheru” in the central Indian town of Khandwa. He admires his mother Kamla, and his older brothers Guddu and Kallu. When he’s about four, he becomes responsible for his baby sister, Shekila.
Saroo lives in a one-room house in a suburb of Khandwa called Ganesh Talai, which he shares with his Hindu mother, Kamla, his two older brothers, Guddu and Kallu, and his infant sister, Shekila. Saroo’s Muslim father abandoned the family, forcing Kamla to take odd jobs and the children to scrounge and steal.
Jun 24, 2013 · When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five.
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Saroo would stay at home and take care of his baby sister. Even with his mom and brothers working their family was very poor and often went hungry. One night when Saroo was only five years old he begs his older brother Guddu to join him on a trip to a nearby town.
Jun 22, 2014 · When Saroo Brierley was 4, he hopped on the wrong train in rural India, losing his way and his family. But as he recounts in A Long Way Home, Google Earth helped him return decades later.
