a second and I shall be back.' And when he did come back after a couple of minutes he said, 'Now I will be taking you to your mother.'" Lost and found 1986: He loses his family and ends up living on the streets of Calcutta 1987: He is adopted by an Australian couple and grows up in Tasmania 2011: He finds his home town on Google Earth 2012: He is reunited with his mother in Khandwa "I just felt numb and thought, 'Am I hearing what I think I am hearing?'" Saroo was taken to meet his mother who was nearby. At first he did not recognise her. "The last time I saw her she was 34 years old and a pretty lady, I had forgotten that age would get the better of her. But the facial structure was still there and I recognised her and I said, 'Yes, you are my mother.' "She grabbed my hand and took me to her house. She could not say anything to me. I think she was as numb as I was. She had a bit of trouble grasping that her son, after 25 years, had just reappeared like a ghost." Although she had long feared he was dead, a fortune teller had told Saroo's mother that one day she would see her son again. "I think the fortune teller gave her a bit of energy to live on and to wait for that day to come." And what of the brother