I don’t know if Guddu was having second thoughts about letting me come, but I was starting to feel a bit guilty, because my mother usually needed me to babysit Shekila while she was at work, and I didn’t know when I’d be back. Then it was the turn of Shout at the Devil, who appeared on the big screen with the same title of the literary work in the year 1976. But if we stick with mid-twentieth-century fiction and animals for a moment, we can find an example of unequivocal allegory: George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945), which we have analysed here. Like a lot of kids in the neighbourhood, my brothers and I got creative about finding things to eat.

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When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. I was ravenous as I watched my mother give the first batch to Shekila and I couldn’t help myself – I nabbed a fried egg from my sister’s plate and ran out the door, ignoring her ear-splitting cry of protest. It says “ Pax tibi Marce, evangelista meus”, which translates as “Peace to you Mark, my evangelist”. A little mouse is tired of being looked down upon and not being seen as tough enough, so wants to learn how to ROAR to be as big and scary as the lion.We’d pass through a couple of very small stations – just platforms in the middle of nowhere – before arriving at the Berampur station, smaller than Ginestlay’s, and on the outskirts of town. PostTrak reported that 92% of audience members gave the film a rating of either "excellent" or "very good".

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Another adoptive parent might have made the decision that I was young enough to start my life in Australia with a clean slate and could be brought up without much reference to where I’d come from. I’d begun to feel I wasn’t a little boy anymore, to be left at home while they were out in the world.What I liked the most was the Moral behind the Story: 'Even the smallest creature (like mouse) can have the heart of a lion' - the courageous mouse set himself off to meet the Lion hoping to win the Lion's heart rather than being his dinner, which eventually happens at the end of the Story. Mum had decorated the house with Indian objects – there were some Hindu statues, brass ornaments and bells, and lots of little elephant figurines. Saroo visits his adoptive mother, whose health is deteriorating, and learns that she is not infertile, but chose to help children in need through adoption.

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Our diet was basic as well: roti bread, rice and daal, some­times with a few vegetables tossed in, if we were lucky. My prized red blanket got snagged on the barbed wire, and with the boys bear­ing down on me I had no choice but to leave it behind.

And I remember long, warm nights during the hot months of the year, when my family would join the others with whom we shared the house and gather together outside in the court­yard, while someone played the harmonium and others sang. Saying aloud the name of my home for the first time since arriving in Australia was like opening a release valve. To be completely fair, he has never failed to express his concern about the struggles the nature and the people of his native-continent face everyday.