BBC NEWS | South Asia | Man lives in tree after domestic spat:
"An Indian man has been living in a tree for the past 15 years despite passionate appeals by his mother to return home.

Kapila Pradhan, 45, a resident of Nagajhara village in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, left home after an apparent tiff with his wife.

'My son and daughter-in-law quarrelled constantly after their son was born and their relationship soured day by day,' says his mother Sishula.

'One morning I found my son had left the house while everybody was still asleep.'"