60 Minutes Australia: Lost & Found (2013) - Part One

few life stories involve such impossible odds incredible love and sheer determination as through Braley's born into a poor family in central india suru became lost when he was just five years old a terrifying train ride took him to the other side of the country through and adult among the millions of desperate kids living on India streets but the love of a tasmanian couple offered him a new life he grew up and prospered as a young Australian but there was always a yearning for his long-lost family in India this is the astonishing story of how Subaru found them in the mayhem that is India it's easy to do with your way and one plot many never find the wave back on but after a lifetime of searching so rude Riley has defied all feel it's a chance once in a million or million infinity after 26 years of heart through is now reunited with the mother he last saw when he was just five [Music] it was just such a long time since she hugged me in that was just oh just so comforting technology and determination have taken through full circle from address poor childhood in India [Music] - growing up in idyllic Tasmania and look where you ended up a place for Mindy early youth journey had a beginning he could barely remember this like us would never imagine it to happy in a lifetime and an ending he will never forget sometimes miracles do happen and given by them this epic tale begins in the most unremarkable of places a dusty village in central India Khandwa is where Saru was born and spent the first five years of his life this should have been your life it could have been my life I could have you know not got lost and stayed here and I would have probably been very by now it's exchange though isn't it how differently your life would have turned out very differently the rule was born into one of the poorest families in town [Music] his mother Fatima had been deserted by her husband and she struggled just to keep through his sister and two brothers alive I heard all Isaiah I could see at times when she sat down in the room in the dark room where I grew up and just crying thinking you know what am I going to do how am I going to feed my children it's it's a memory that I can't ever forget so Ruth eldest brother guru was his idol and the closest he had to a father he always held my hand when I walk with him I sort of you know put my head up and looked up at him whilst we were walking it was just a big smile it was almost like the security and I'm safe and I'm with him one evening when Saru was just five the boys headed for the local railway station to scavenge for food and loose change [Music] it was late and the room was tired so guru told him to rest on a bench promising to return soon it was the last through would see of his brother that's the last memory I've got of him tough one yeah it is a tough one yeah you know it's hard for me because you know I love the whole of my family but he always just so close to my brother when Saru woke up all alone he panicked and jumped on the nearest train believing guru must be on board there's no really the same I was really hoping that he was on the train but but he was also skiing [Music] five-year-olds through couldn't know that the train would take him nearly 2,000 kilometers across India to one of the most populated and unforgiving cities on earth Calcutta I was so little and everyone was shoving and pulling and I was just a tiny little boy but I was just running up and down and asking for help and there's no one who could help you no one I just cried and and cried and called out to my brother but you know he was he was never there 20 60s later the roux is retracing he's astonishing life life on the pitiless streets of Calcutta do you look around though they should appear dressed in rags this Guinea and see yourself yes I do but enjoy a bit of myself back then I just had a little short and a top that had about two or three buttons that fit and I was just crying and dirty air every day was the matter of life and death for little through twice he almost drowned while washing in the river [Music] rescued by strangers he survived on scraps of stolen food sleeping on the streets and trying to avoid the teenage gang who would feed him don't go somewhere where it is danger don't go somewhere where you think bad things going to happen at 5 years of age you had to rely on your instinct yes perhaps a year you sort of lived a day at a time was there no hope back then her I didn't know what hope was but ultimately the thing that I wanted the most was to be with a family because I know that I'm not going to form a family again they were what signed a family of thoughts in this tiny orphanage out of all of those children do you remember through Idol because I spent a lot of time with them this is the Raj thought now in her eighties was through Savior one of thousands of lost children she has rescued from the streets of Calcutta so nice to be walking along hoardings is good and again yes well it's just going 26 years ago she was holding my hand working heater mating dates and took me to salvation and thanks to mrs. food suru would get a chance at a new life with a loving family in faraway Australia [Music] what did you think when you saw the the green trees the mountains there was that well you know what is it fancy them a brisk autumn day on Hobart Derwent River with Ruth's parents Sue and John Braley you live on this side don't you ever have a quarter of a century ago they reached across the world to adopt the boy who became their son and all they do is just pull the sheet down never look around then he go back under again and our society must be absolutely petrified there was a little mound in the bed that is our new son nobody's much Saru was now Australian with two parents who cherished him and his brother man Tosh who was also adopted from India through excelled at sports at school and had lots of friends but there was still a lost Indian boy inside whose memory was scattered with unforgettable images of another family another mother when was that moment in your life when you decided I need to know what happened to them I need to know where I grew up well it was always within me and you know when I go to sleep I just project to my mother and sister that I'm still alive I'm still here and there will be a day you know hoping that we will be together again and that hope would have withered and died if not for the arrival of a new technology that offered through an intricate view of India from his home in Hobart Google Earth one of my friends said oh you should have a look at this it's great alert it's amazing but then I just thought well I've got such a bank of images and memories perhaps I could use this new technology and just just like to try it but he set himself an almost impossible task Saru was looking for a one-room Hut in a country spanning three million square kilometers and when you look at India is so massive that's impossible this is the seventh largest country in the world and you don't even know the name of the town you're from ah it's madness it is no madness it is but I was looking for a specific image and it's like that image is it like a small puzzle putting you know two thousand five thousand picture puzzle together one of those little puzzle pieces is where you're from coming up I think I was just an assist the word relentless quest when I picked this railway line I thought I just have a go in it the Agassi the ROI searching come to nothing you the ecstasy and the incredible free you give your son's a good care of them that lect consistent

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Length: 12min 53sec (773 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 26 2017