Indian - Businessman | 1981 -
When I first started coming to Calcutta, it brought back a lot of memories... the hardships I went through, the situations I was placed in, and the possibilities of those situations becoming so hostile.
Saroo Brierley
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I almost drowned in the Hooghly river, which is something really crazy. If there is something about Calcutta that scares me, it's that.
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I see Calcutta as a place where I have a lot of memories... a lot of fond memories of coming back here and helping the children.
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What happened in my past happened. What's the term - don't cry over spilled milk? That's the thing people don't understand. I'm all right. I configured myself into coming out on the other end OK. I can disassociate myself.
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Just as my search for my mother had in some ways shaped my life, her faith that I was alive had shaped hers. She couldn't search, but she did the next best thing: She stayed still.
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Coming to Australia, it was just really magical for me. It just had the wow factor of a different sort of place and, more so, just being with a family that wanted to love me and to have me, because I knew back then, before coming to Australia, there was no way of getting back home or finding my real family.
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Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school colleagues saw you out and about, and you were part of the team you were getting into the Australian way, learning the language. The transition was extremely smooth.
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A lot of people forget that anything is accomplishable if you embrace technology.
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Indians in general are sort of thick-skinned and hard to be moved.
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I'm a pretty laid-back kind of person.
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My past was always there. And I always understood that I was adopted. It wasn't like a massive issue to me. But identity was an issue. I knew that I was Indian, but I didn't really know much about myself, really. I mean, I really disassociated myself from what happened in the past to present. But, it was affecting in regards to identity.
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At the end of the day, I think people just need to start listening to their hearts and their gut feelings and their dreams, because that's what I did.
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