India, July 15 -- The 40-year-old Russian woman rescued along with her two kids from a remote cave near Gokarna in Karnataka has said her life in the jungle was peaceful and close to nature, as compared to where they were kept since being brough out.

"We are now kept in an uncomfortable place. It's dirty. There's no privacy. And we get only plain rice to eat," said Nina Kutina. She and the kids are now at an ashram belonging to a veteran yoga teacher.

She and her two young children were brought down safely from the cave on the hill, police had said, and later, reportedly as per her wishes, she was sent to an NGO's ashram in Bankikodlu village in Kumta subdivision.

She accused the rescuers, police included, of ransacking the cave she ca...