When Jhaman Singh Gaur lost his wife in 1995, the world around him collapsed suddenly. He was so dependent on her for everything that life without her became unbearable. One day he walked out of the house in tears and that is all he remembers.

Seven years later he woke up in a dormitory and found 9 other inmates with him. He was being looked after well as was apparent from the bed he was sleeping in and the surroundings.

Where were his three sons? He asked the caretaker. The caretaker smiled; there was nothing unusual about the question as most of the inmates were mental patients and all of them had their own little worlds. Some refused to talk while others were ask for their relatives or to be taken to their homes; the whereabouts of which they did not know.

Jhaman Lal as he was known in Pingalwara, Jalandhar Branch, repeatedly told the caretaker that he was from village Akha near Amla, Distt Bareilly and he was worried about his three sons. The caretaker was surprised as Jhaman Lal had never spoken like that before. The inmates who talked would change their stories every time. There was nothing logical about their babbling. But Jhaman Lal was making sense.

He told the incident to Sqn. Ldr. (Retd) Kirpal Singh, incharge of the Jalandhar branch. After having talked to Jhaman Lal at length, Kirpal Singh wasted no time in writing a letter to the village Pradhan. As seven years had passed, anything could have happened to the family but the Village Pradhan was bound to know.

A few days later there was a telephone call. The caller was from Amla and was greatly excited. Jhaman Lal's son Lallu Singh could barely control his excitement on the prospect of seeing his father again. He shouted that he was catching the next train for Jalandhar.

Lallu Singh reached Pingalwara after two days. The union between the father and the son was tearful. Jhaman Lal had become Jhaman Singh Gaur once again.

The boundless joy the family received in the reunion was kindled by Mrs Rita Riwate of Mission Hospital Khassa, Amritsar, who having observed him loitering about aimlessly, sent him to Pingalwara. The love and care of Pingalwara then made the reunion possible.