![]() ![]() 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. Saroo took a bus toward Khandwa, but bad roads and. Things were even dirtier than Saroo remembered, and the poverty was still clear. The return to India was difficult, as by then Saroo had become thoroughly Western. It forced him and his brothers to scrounge, beg, and steal. Chapter 10: Meeting My Mother Saroo landed in India on February 11, 2012, in the city of Indore in Madhya Pradesh, India. And that was the second thing-it was much farther than I thought possible. Saroo explains that he does what he can to help Kamla, including paying her rent and buying food. (Chapter 2, ) Hunger was all-consuming for young Saroo. ![]() 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. My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was 'surprised with thunder' that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was 'as deep as the sea'. 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. ![]()
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