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Saroo Brierley (born 1981) is an Indian-born Australian businessman who was separated from his birth mother and found her after a separation of 25 years. His story generated significant international media attention, especially in Australia and in India. Brierley has written a book about his experiences, ''A Long Way Home''. ==Background== Saroo was born Sheru Munshi Khan〔(The incredible story of Saroo Brierley )〕 in the Ganesh Tilai neighborhood of Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh. When he was young, his father left his mother, throwing the family into poverty. His mother worked in construction to support herself and her children but often did not make enough money to feed them all, and could not afford to send them to school. At age 5, Saroo and his older brothers Guddu and Kallu began begging at the railway station for food and money. Guddu sometimes obtained work sweeping the floors of train carriages.〔Brierley, Saroo (2013) ''A Long Way Home''. Viking. Melbourne, Australia. ISBN 9780670077045〕〔(Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth ) BBC World Service. Retrieved 2013-09-27〕 One evening, Guddu said he was going to ride the train from Khandwa to the city of Burhanpur, to the south. Saroo asked his older brother if he could come too. Guddu agreed. By the time the train reached Burhanpur, Saroo was so tired he collapsed onto a seat on the platform. Guddu told his little brother to wait and promised to be back shortly. Guddu did not return and Saroo eventually became impatient. He noticed a train parked in the station and, thinking his brother was on it, boarded an empty carriage. He found there were no doors to the adjoining carriages. Hoping his brother would come for him, he fell asleep. When he awoke, the train was traveling across unfamiliar country. Many hours passed and the journey continued. Occasionally the train stopped at small stations but Saroo was unable to open the door to escape. The journey eventually ended at the huge Howrah railway station in Kolkata when someone opened the door to Saroo's carriage and he fled. Saroo did not know it at the time, but he was nearly from his hometown.〔〔 Saroo attempted to return home by boarding different trains, but they proved to be suburban trains and each one eventually took him back to Howrah railway station. For a week or two, he lived on and around Howrah railway station. He survived by scavenging scraps of food in the street and sleeping underneath the station's seats. Eventually, he ventured out into the city, and after days of homelessness on Kolkata's streets, he was found by a railway worker who took him in and gave him food and shelter, but Saroo fled when the railway worker showed Saroo to a friend and Saroo sensed that something was not right. The two men chased after him, but he managed to escape.〔〔 Saroo eventually met a teenager who took him to a police station and reported that he might be a lost child. The police took Saroo to a government center for abandoned children. Weeks later, he was moved to the Indian Society for Sponsorship and Adoption. The staff there attempted to locate his family, but Saroo did not know enough for them to sufficiently trace his hometown, and he was officially declared a lost child. He was subsequently adopted by the Brierley family of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.〔 In the meantime, his mother, Kamla Munshi, searched for her two sons. A few weeks after her sons failed to return home, police informed her that Guddu's body had been found near the railway tracks, a kilometre from Burhanpur station. He had been struck by a train.〔 She then confined her energy to looking for Saroo, traveling to different places on trains. She visited a temple every week to offer incense and rose petals in prayer for his return.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saroo Brierley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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