![]() ![]() And I looked at the second one and I thought, "There's something about you" - and it took me a few seconds but I decrypted what she used to looked like. And by the time the fourth person had come, they said, "Just stay here for a sec," and within 10 minutes they came back around and they said, "Now I'm going to take you to your mother."Īnd I couldn't believe it, because when I went around the corner, which was only 10, 15 meters around the corner, there three ladies standing in front of an entrance to a house. That went on quite a few times with other people that kept wanting to know this person that's a foreigner that's coming to a town that's never seen a foreigner. Another person comes in and I sort of spill my mantra to them as well. And I said to her, my name is Saroo and these are my family members' names. But lucky for me this lady came out of a doorway holding a baby, and she said, "Can I help you?". Putnam's SonsĪnd I just thought the worst, I thought perhaps everyone's gone, my whole family's died, they've passed away. Saroo Brierley was born in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India, and currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania. Then, in 2011, he came across something familiar.īrierley tells NPR's Arun Rath about his years-long search for his family and their emotional reunion. Read A Long Way Home A Memoir by Saroo Brierley available from Rakuten Kobo. In this autobiographical book, Brierley covers three decades of his life, describing his ordeals and adventures as a lost five-year-old in rural India, his adoption by a middle-class Australian family, and his search for his Indian native family some 25 years later. He spent years searching for his hometown in the program's satellite images, zooming in and out of the map, exploring the web of railway lines criss-crossing India. He remembered landmarks, but since he didn't know his town's name, finding a small neighborhood in a vast country proved to be impossible. There, he was adopted by an Australian family and flown to Tasmania.Īs he recounts in his new book, A Long Way Home, Brierley couldn't help but wonder about his hometown back in India. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at. He lived on the streets, then in a juvenile home and, finally, in an orphanage. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. He was more than a thousand miles from his home, in a city where he did not speak the language. That train took him across the country to Kolkata (then called Calcutta), where he spent five harrowing months. Lost and alone on an unfamiliar train, he found himself taken across the country and deposited in a strange city.A19. "It was just an impulse decision," Brierley says, "that, in fact, changed my destiny for life." His life was about to be utterly transformed. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |