<p>A Passage to America: Notes of an Adopted Son is an anecdotal autobiography of Prof. Joseph M. Cheruvelil a naturalized citizen of the United States. Submerged in this long narrative is a social history of three generations from British subjects in India to Baby Boomers and Millennials in America. Prof. Cheruvelil who taught many years at St. John&rsquo;s University in New York is a Catholic in religion a Hindu in culture a conservative in politics and an eclectic in taste.</p><p>The book abounds with succinct comments on the major issues and potentates of the world from a global perspective. Education is its primary theme geography and history its guides and myths and legends its images.</p>