This later proves to be one of the most important skills that Saroo develops.
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The amount of time Saroo spends alone on the streets also affords him finely tuned street smarts-essentially, he understands how to both gauge which vendor stalls or individuals will be the best targets to steal from, as well as identify individuals that may seem kindly at first glance, but actually mean to hurt him. This teaches him the skills he later uses to feed himself as a lone child in Calcutta, as he's already an adept thief, used to being constantly hungry, and used to functioning without adult guidance or supervision.
Because Saroo is allowed this responsibility and because it's also culturally acceptable for him to leave Shekila unattended for hours at a time, he spends a great deal of time wandering the streets alone, begging for food and stealing when he can. Saroo, for example, is put in charge of watching his baby sister Shekila when he's around three years old while Kamla spends days at a time away, working on construction sites. This combination of isolation and poverty means that all of Kamla's children develop a strong sense of independence at a very young age. Saroo and his siblings are extremely isolated as children, in part because of Saroo's birth family's poverty, and in part because of their unconventional religious makeup ( Kamla is Hindu, while Saroo's birth father is Muslim, though Kamla raises her children in a Muslim neighborhood and has them undergo Muslim traditions such as circumcision). Essentially, Saroo suggests that his survival was a result of having been, in many ways, very much not a child thanks to his experiences of poverty.
However awful growing up in poverty was, however, Saroo also links the skills he developed during his early childhood to the reason he later survived for weeks in Calcutta. He recalls in horrific detail how little his family had to eat, as well as the risks he took to steal scraps of food whenever he could. As Saroo describes his early childhood in India, he poignantly asserts that growing up hungry and in poverty fundamentally shapes people's lives and can have a brutal effect on their childhoods.
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