Man returns home as sadhu after 46 years to seek alms

Pithoragarh: A 61-year-old sadhu returned to his native village in Pithoragarh after 46 years and sought alms from his mother, telling her that he was Budhi Ballabh Upadhyaya, the son who had disappeared from home at the age of 15 and was never found despite years of search by the family. He now calls himself Buddh Nath and follows the Nath tradition of Sanatan Dharma.Nandi Devi was at her home in Dauligad village in Pausha Postala gram panchayat near Berinag on June 4 when a sadhu with a long beard arrived at her door seeking bhiksha. The family later learnt that the man at the doorstep was the boy who had left the remote village near the Pithoragarh-Bageshwar border as a teenager.