Saroo Brierly - the inspiration behind Oscar-nominated movie Lion (2017) - spent five years searching across the country, albeit on Google Earth, before he found his biological family. Netherlands resident Mirjam Bina, 42, now has a similar quest ahead of her, but thanks to improved technology, she has a better idea of where to look. DNA tests have already narrowed her ethnicity down to Mangalorean Catholic (a very small minority), and now she has found help from a famous genealogist who has thousands of genetic samples from the very community.

Mirjam Bina was just a year-and-a-half-old when she was found alone at Victoria Terminus - now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) - on March 1, 1978. A year later, she was adopted by a Dutch couple, who raised her in the Netherlands along with an adopted sister Nagpur.