This is an astonishing story, and has a strange similarity to our View From Your Window contest. A young Indian boy fell asleep on a train journey, lost his brother, took another train to find him and became completely lost at five on the streets of Calcutta. He was eventually taken into an orphanage, but eventually used Google Earth to trace his fateful train journey as a child, to get images that might bring back memories of the past, and to find his mother. He couldn't remember the name of his town, or his family. But images worked:
"It was just like being Superman. You are able to go over and take a photo mentally and ask, 'Does this match?' And when you say, 'No', you keep on going and going and going … When I found it, I zoomed down and bang, it just came up. I navigated it all the way from the waterfall where I used to play."
He and his mother were numb when they met each other again. His brother? His body had been found on the railroad tracks.
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