Recently I watched the film ‘Lion’ - a true story of a small boy called ‘Sheru’ who wile travelling in a train goes to sleep and when he wakes up finds himself very far from his village with no money and could not speak the language.
In an unknown land he nearly became the target of child trafficking but he was very clever and ran very fast. A good lady helped him and an Australian couple who had no children adopted him and took him to Australia and educated him. One day he remembers his birth village and his family and with the help of Google he found the village and went to his birthplace and found his mum and sister and so happily the hugged each other.
Every parent should teach their children’s identity, name, parents name and place where their house is etc because in India every year a horrible incident takes place involving around 80,000 children. ‘Sheru’ part was played wonderfully by Dev Patel and he has worked in many films and received Bafta awards.
Sudha Rasik Bhatt
Glasgow
