The things I’d always been so certain about were dissolving in the face of what I’d found. Was it too far? Did the trains go much faster than everyone had allowed for? Or had I been on the train for longer than I thought? Two surreal days passed. In 1986, aged only five, he lost all contact with his family when he was at a train station waiting for his brother who never returned. And that was the second thing-it was much farther than I thought possible. Little Lion: A Long Way Home Saroo Brierley & Bruce Whatley There’s so much more at /teachers ABOUT THE AUTHOR Saroo Brierley was born in an Indian town called Khandwa. How many times had I looked at all those names, not knowing their secrets? I don’t remember if I ever noticed Burhanpur among the several similar names on the map when I was younger if I had, I’d obviously written it off, probably as being too far from Kolkata.
The first thing that hit me was that my home had been marked on the map above my desk the whole time, if I’d only known where to look. It was almost all the way across an enormous country. To her they seemed so far away from Kolkata that she wondered whether it was possible I could have traveled that distance.
“surprised to find that it had both Burhanpur and Khandwa marked on it.
