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I used to think that my brother Guddu is still screaming my name." When asked what made him persist with the search, Saroo said, "I think the love and bonding I share with my real family, affection of my mother, love and bonding with siblings, drove me to continue the search. Photo courtesy: Saroo Brierley Facebook page He finally, using Google Earth, met her at Khandwa after 25 years.Īfter an emotional reunion with his birth mother after 25 years, he wrote a book 'A Long Way Home'. While his Australian parents gave him all the love and privilege to lead a good life, he longed for and kept on searching for his birth mother. But after being separated by his family at the age of five, he was adopted by an Australian couple from a Kolkata orphanage. Saroo was born in Madhya Pradesh in poor family - mother, two brothers and sister. I want those kids to be motivated and inspired, who are vulnerable, not knowing where they are coming from, who their parents are," he added. "For me, more than winning awards, I want the film to penetrate as much as it can for those kids and parents who are going through the same situation. I never imagined my story would get that (an Oscar nomination)," said Saroo. "I am humbled and touched that the film has been chosen for six Oscar nominations.
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That, along with Sheru's recovery, are hopeful signs for many here that Mumbai is returning to normal.Saroo Brierley along with Priyanka Bose, Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel. Within three days after the attack ended, they had returned. So one must care for living creatures whether it is an animal or a human being."īy the end of the siege, the pigeons at the Taj had all but disappeared, adding to the anguish of many who saw them as a blessing. If animals are not there, we are not there. "Ultimately, it is an ecosystem," said Dr. He says rescuers tried to save a fruit bat wounded in the attack. Khanna says at least 25 were killed and dozens more wounded as stray bullets, bomb blasts, shrapnel and thick black smoke filled the air.
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Of the hundreds of pigeons that have become scenic fixture in the square between the Gateway of India and the Taj Hotel, where the gunmen made their last stand, Dr. The city's police and fire departments gave them funeral honors. In the assault, three trained rescue dogs were killed. "Nobody has yet thought about the animals, how much they have undergone trauma, physical and psychological. "You see, everyone is crying and worried for the human being, human life," said Dr. Khanna says it is not surprising that some of these animals were killed, wounded and traumatized during the three-day siege in Mumbai, as the gunman rampaged through the city, spraying machine-gun fire and hurling grenades. Millions of stray animals, especially dogs and cats, but also cows, roam the streets of Mumbai, almost seamlessly woven into fabric of urban life in India.ĭr. Khanna, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Indian army. That is according to the hospital's lead veterinarian, Dr. His prognosis? He is expected to recover, the bullet having passed through his shoulder. For them, Sheru has become a symbol of hope in this tragedy. Hospital workers here have named the beige-colored pooch "Sheru," Hindi for Lion-Heart. So I just took him along with me and admitted him into the hospital." They just told me that he was long dead so why bother. "Everybody was frightened by that time, so nobody was going to help him," he said. As bystanders rushed in to carry out the dead and the wounded people, a local newspaper photographer, 28-year-old Shripat Naik, spotted the dog in the station's foyer, bleeding, dazed and shaking. It was a stray dog hit by a stray bullet as gunmen battled with police at the city's main railway station. Many of Mumbai's stray dogs are brought to a kennel, at the city's Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw animal hospital, a charity hospital mainly for stray animals wounded by street fights with other dogs or hit by cars.īut, on the first night of the terror attack, one of the dogs shot by the attackers was brought there. But less well-known is the collateral damage of the attack on many of the city's animals. Last month's terror attack in Mumbai took a wrenching toll on human life. In much of India, compassion for animals, large and small, runs deep - especially with many of Hindu deities taking on animal form.