Brierley was born in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India. Saroo by now a robust, happy, windsurfing, fully fledged Aussie used Google Earth, a handful of visual memories and immense dedication to identify his home town: Khandwa, in central India. That story is being published in several languages around the world and is currently being adapted into a major feature film. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost birthplace half a world away, his story made global headlines. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. and adapted into the 2016 film Lion, starring Dev Patel as Saroo and Nicole Kidman as his adoptive mother, Sue Brierley. until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. It celebrates the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit: hope. This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a young man who used Google Earth to rediscover his childhood life and home in an incredible. A true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds, as seen on 60 Minutes When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. One day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off to find his family.Ī Long Way Home is a moving, poignant, and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds. In 2016, Saroos story made it into the cinemas Lion is a biographical film based on the non-fiction book A long way home by Saroo Brierley. Eventually, with the advent of Google Earth, he had the opportunity to look for the needle in a haystack he once called home, and pore over satellite images for landmarks he might recognize or mathematical equations that might further narrow down the labyrinthine map of India. As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.ĭespite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home.but an identity long-since left behind.Īt only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India.
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