Delhi : A remarkably similar story of separation and reunion has emerged from Georgia, in eastern Europe, and it could easily pass for the real-life version of Ramesh Sippy’s 1972 Bollywood blockbuster ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’.
Amy Khvitia and Ano Sartania, who were identical twins who were mistakenly split up at birth and were living miles apart in Georgia, eventually came across each other via a talent show and a widely shared TikTok video.
Their story, which was covered by the BBC, highlights a much bigger problem that Georgia is facing: the startling number of infants that have been taken from hospitals and sold over the years, a scandal that is still mostly unsolved.
The journey to discovery for Amy and Ano began when they were just 12 years old. Amy, engrossed in her favorite TV show, ‘Georgia’s Got Talent’, stumbled upon a girl dancing who bore an uncanny resemblance to her. Little did she know that the woman dancing was her long-lost sister.
However, Ano was sent a TikTok video that showed off a strikingly similar-looking blue-haired woman. It turned out that Amy, the woman in the video, was her twin.
The birth mother of the twins, Aza Shoni, went into a coma in 2002 as a result of unreported birth complications. Her husband, Gocha Gakharia, made the heartbreaking choice to sell Amy and Ano to different families.
Amy grew up in Zugdidi, while Ano was raised in Tbilisi; neither of them knew the other existed. Even after she entered the same dance competition when she was eleven years old and spectators saw the obvious similarities, the truth eluded her.
Their lives continued on parallel paths until the fateful TikTok video and subsequent reunion. However, as the twins sought answers to their own separation, they uncovered a shocking reality – they were just two among thousands of babies stolen from Georgian hospitals and sold, with cases reported as recently as 2005.
According to the BBC report, the incident took place two years ago on the Rustaveli Bridge in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, where Amy and Ano met for the first time since their separation 19 years earlier.
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