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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLittle boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth
Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India's trains. "It was late at night. We got off the train, and I was so tired that I just took a seat at a train station, and I ended up falling asleep."
That fateful nap would determine the rest of his life. "I thought my brother would come back and wake me up but when I awoke he was nowhere to be seen. I saw a train in front of me and thought he must be on that train. So I decided to get on it and hoped that I would meet my brother."
Saroo did not meet his brother on the train. Instead, he fell asleep and had a shock when he woke up 14 hours later. Though he did not realise it at first, he had arrived in Calcutta, India's third biggest city and notorious for its slums.
"I was absolutely scared. I didn't know where I was. I just started to look for people and ask them questions."
That fateful nap would determine the rest of his life. "I thought my brother would come back and wake me up but when I awoke he was nowhere to be seen. I saw a train in front of me and thought he must be on that train. So I decided to get on it and hoped that I would meet my brother."
Saroo did not meet his brother on the train. Instead, he fell asleep and had a shock when he woke up 14 hours later. Though he did not realise it at first, he had arrived in Calcutta, India's third biggest city and notorious for its slums.
"I was absolutely scared. I didn't know where I was. I just started to look for people and ask them questions."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17693816
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Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth (Original Post)
boston bean
Apr 2012
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Kadie
(15,369 posts)1. Wow.
What a story.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)2. Great Story
eom
K Gardner
(14,933 posts)3. Unbelievable. Thanks for posting. (It'll be a movie soon, I'm sure) n/t
allan01
(1,950 posts)4. re:Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth View profile
this would make a tear jerker of a movie. thanks for this . persistance pays off.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)5. What a story! k&r