The Economic Times

In 1980, a 15-year-old boy vanished. Today, at 61, he reappeared at his mother's door, bringing tears, surprise & emotion to an Uttarakhand village

Pithoragarh sadhu returns home: A man who disappeared from his Uttarakhand village as a teenager returned home after 46 years as a sadhu to fulfil a sacred promise. Now known as Buddh Nath, he sought alms from his elderly mother, Nandi Devi, in accordance with a spiritual obligation he said was instructed by his late guru, before resuming his life as a renunciant.