Jyotsna Dhawle's story seems so filmy that you will want to pinch yourself. It begins with a tragedy at the age of 8, when she falls asleep on a train and wakes up in a strange city, all alone.
Jyotsna told Bangalore Mirror that she left her home in Datta Nagar locality of Maharashtra's Chandrapur, about 1000 km from Bengaluru, when she was eight years old. She fell asleep inside a train while playing.
After a 20-hour journey, the little girl woke up in Mumbai. She boarded another train for home but de-boarded in Secunderabad."I realised I was nowhere near home. I begged for help to reach Chandrapur, but nobody had heard of the place," she recalls. She went to a small eatery asking for food. "The owner took pity on me and I worked as a domestic help till I was beaten and thrown out a year later," she said.
She tried again to return home but landed herself in Bangalore where a woman constable admitted her to a hospital and put her in a home for abandoned children.
Eventually, Jyotsna married a screen painting artist and had two children but never lost her hope of reaching Chandrapur. One day, she was able to get in touch with the Chandrapur police helpline where she spoke to woman constable Mamata Mandvi. Mandvi said: "On March 16, 2016 I received a call from Jyotsna," following which, Chandrapur district SP Sandip Diwan formed a team to help hunt her parents down and were able to locate her autorickshaw father through an old missing complaint report.
She came to Chandrapur with her husband and children, and met her parents after two decades. Needless to say, it was an emotional reunion with a happy ending.
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