My Passage to India: A Memoir

THE CANDID ACCOUNT OF AN UNUSUAL LIFE SPENT BETWEEN ENGLAND AND INDIA. Annabel Mehta is known to many as the founder of Apnalaya, a non-profit that focuses on providing a better life to underprivileged children in Mumbai, and to many more as the mother of Anjali Tendulkar, wife of India’s favourite cricketer, Sachin (God!) Tendulkar. In this book, she opens up for the first time about both of these aspects of her life in Mumbai, starting with her arrival in the city in the 1950s to spend time with her boyfriend Anand Mehta and his family, much to the dismay of her own family and friends in England. Annabel writes honestly and thoughtfully about the roller-coaster ride that followed: love, marriage, motherhood, and also grief and bereavement. There was, too, the challenges of setting up and running an organisation that demanded both relentless hard work and faith to keep it going against tremendous odds.
A snapshot into the changing fortunes of a family and a city, My Passage to India is elegant and effortlessly engaging.