Google Earth Helps Indian Boy Reunite with Mother 25 Years Later
Five-year-old Saroo Brierley fell asleep on a train in central India and wound up roughly 1,000 miles from home in Kolkata. Adopted by an Australian couple, he spent years using Google Earth to trace landmarks and eventually pinpoint Ganesh Talai near his hometown, leading to a emotional reunion with his mother Fatima and surviving siblings; his story is chronicled in the memoir A Long Way Home and the film Lion.