Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Jeet Bahadur Magar's family in Kathmandu.
When India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled this week to Kathmandu on a historic visit, a young man accompanying him became a headline.
The PM posted a series of tweets about the previously unknown Jeet Bahadur Magar, whom Mr Modi has been assisting since discovering him as an 11-year-old boy .
"I started showing my concern for Jeet Bahadur. Gradually, he took interest in academics, sports & even learnt (to speak) Gujarati," Mr Modi, 63, tweeted.
The leader funded the boy's education and years later asked Nepalese business magnate Binod Chaudhary, head of the Chaudhary Group, to help him find his family in Nawalparasi district, about 250 kilometres southwest of Kathmandu. "The whole world now recognises Narendra Modi, but for me he is my big brother," Magar told India's ANI news agency.
"I met him when I was little, he took care of me like his own son," he said.
Magar, now 27, who is still living in India but has reconnected with relatives, accompanied Mr Modi on his two-day visit to Nepal.
Photos of the family gathering on Sunday -- showing Mr Modi, the boy he helped raise and his family -- were posted on the Indian foreign ministry's Twitter account.
Magar is pursuing a business degree in Gujarat and will return to India after spending some time with his family.
According to reports, Magar had travelled as a boy to India to work with his brother, but after deciding to leave, boarded the wrong train and arrived alone in Mr Modi's home state of Gujarat instead of at the Nepalese border.