It was the sight of a small, fried Indian dessert called jalebi at a friend’s house in Australia just a few years ago that shook Saroo Brierley to the core, bringing back a flood of memories of becoming lost in India at the age of five.
The amazing story of how he traveled to the home of his adoptive parents in Tasmania and back to India again as an adult in 2012 in search of his family has since been made into a bestselling book and most recently a movie called “Lion,” in select theaters now.
