His father had abandoned the family, so Kamla, his mum, worked at construction sites. It wasn’t like they didn’t have any food – it was just never enough.

Saroo Munshi Khan was almost always hungry. Saroo&the chocolate factory: Saroo’s first word to his Australian parents was ‘Cadbury’ If only he could find the right station – Brahmapur, Baharampur, Birampur, Burhampoor… what was Berampur called? – he knew he could find his way back home. He remembered the landmarks, a fountain, a river, a bridge… He had searched through West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh but found nothing familiar. Berampur was roughly 12 hours away (by train) from Kolkata. This is what he knew: Ginestlay was not by the mountains, it wasn’t on the seaside, it wasn’t lush. He’d been doing this meticulously for a year now – zooming in and out of railway tracks originating from Kolkata’s Howrah station on Google Earth. It was late in the night, his girlfriend Lisa had long gone to bed and Saroo Brierley was poring over a map at their apartment in Hobart, the capital of the Australian island state of Tasmania. It had become an obsession, looking for Ginestlay (if only he could spell it right!) or for that other railway station – it started with a ‘B’ and sounded like Berampur.

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