Saroo Brierley got separated from his family during a train journey at the age of 5. He lived in slums for some time, before being rescued by an orphanage where he was adopted by a Tasmanian couple.
As he grew up abroad, he always had the insatiate curiosity to meet his parents by birth. With no name of his town to search for, he painstakingly started searching Google Earth to find his hometown.
After hours of probing with nothing but the faint mental images of his neighborhood, he zeroed in on a placed called Ganesh Talai in Khandwa (Madhya Pardesh). After reaching there and a couple of enquiries later, he stood before his mother after 25 years.
