GHARPARTICHYA VATEVARTI

‘A LONG WAY HOME’ IS A MEMOIR WRITTEN BY THIRTY YEAR OLD AUSTRALIAN YOUNG MAN SAROO BRIERLEY. SAROO IS ORIGINALLY AN INDIAN HAILING FROM KHANDVA, MADHYA PRADESH. WHILE TRAVELLING BY TRAIN WITH HIS ELDER BROTHER, HE GETS SEPARATED FROM HIM AND ENDS UP IN AN ORPHANAGE IN KOLKATTA. HE WAS ADOPTED BY AN AUSTRALIAN COUPLE IN 1987. ALTHOUGH HE WAS HAPPILY SETTLED WITH HIS NEW FAMILY IN AUSTRALIA, THE MEMORIES ABOUT HIS PLACE AND FAMILY IN INDIA KEEP HAUNTING HIM. AFTER ALMOST TWENTY FIVE YEARS, ON THE BASIS OF HIS FAINT MEMORIES AND WITH THE HELP OF ‘GOOGLE EARTH’ AND ‘FACEBOOK’, HE DISCOVERS HIS INDIAN HOME; VISITS INDIA AND RE-ESTABLISHES HIS BOND WITH HIS MOTHER AND SIBLINGS. THIS IS A TRUE STORY ABOUT HIS LIFE IN DIRE POVERTY, OF BEING LOST, OF HIS LIFE IN AUSTRALIA, HIS OBSESSION TO FIND HIS ORIGINAL PLACE AND FAMILY, INCESSANT STRUGGLE AND EFFORTS TO SEARCH AND ALSO UPHEAVALS IN HIS MIND WHILE DOING THIS SEARCH! ALL THIS STRUGGLE WAS TO FIND OUT HIS ORIGIN, WHERE HE WAS FROM, WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS BROTHER AND TO LET HIS INDIAN FAMILY KNOW THAT HE WAS STILL ALIVE! THIS IS A REAL LIFE LESSON ON HOW TO FIND A WAY OUT OF A DIFFICULT SITUATION (HOWEVER DAUNTING), BY MAKING MOST OF EACH AVAILABLE OPPORTUNITY, BY DETERMINED CONTINUOUS EFFORTS WITHOUT GIVING UP BEFORE REACHING THE DESTINATION.