How fitting, that A Long Way Home - a chilling memoir of Saroo Brierly, should evoke Charles Dickens opening line in A Tale of Two Cities “It was the best of time, it was the worst of time”. The best of time when Saroo ultimately is adopted into a good-hearted family, the worst of time when Saroo’s family in Khandwa is engulfed in the lugubrious belief that their beloved son is gone forever. Notwithstanding growing up with devoted parents in Australia, Saroo is still manacled into the idea of finding his home in India by some illusory memory about the train route that renders his getting lost. The train running from Burhanpur to Kolkata not only bears witness to the unimaginable journey of Saroo from India to Australia and back again, but it also appears as a landmark

In A Long Way Home, Saroo’s upbringing in India is cemented to the utter penury and religious dichotomy of the Indian slums’ culture, which is not entirely brought on when forgetting to mention the conspicuous train running boisterously day and night. For kids growing up in Indian slums, railway is considered as an ideal location to earn a small fraction of money. As a result, never in Saroo’s mind have conceived the idea that going to the railway with his brother can detach him from his family for more than two decades. Losing his affectionate mother and brothers, Saroo is overwhelmed by a ruthless fact that life is not protected by his family going far beyond starvation and privation when it happens to