Saroo Brierley made it back to Ganesh Talai on February 12, 2012. He'd been lost for over 25 years. All those years earlier, on the same night he stepped up into that empty carriage, his brother Guddu died-hit by a train not far from the platform. Saroo's mother, Kamla, has never given up hope of Saroo's return, and had never moved away. Kamla said she was 'surprised with thunder' that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was 'as deep as the ocean'. Saroo learned that all those years ago, as a five-year-old, he has been mispronouncing his own name. He was 'Sheru', meaning... Lion
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