-:ABOUT THE BOOK:-

Sumati Gupta Anand has spent over three decades in the service of children, learning, and human dignity. This book is the natural flowering of that devotion. It is not written from a distance. It is written from within, from memory, from loss, from gratitude, and from an abiding faith that the invisible threads binding us to one another are, ultimately, what make us who we are. May you find, within these pages, a thread that leads you home.

—Dr. Bhuvan Lall

Award-winning Filmmaker, Creative Entrepreneur and Author of Namaste Cannes

Anchored by Values is a journey through generations of courage, dignity, service, and quiet resilience. From the painful echoes of Partition and the loss of ancestral roots to life across oceans with a naval father, from lessons of humility and humanity learned in childhood to the values shaped within disciplined school corridors, these pages carry stories that transcend time.

Through deeply personal narratives, the author reflects family legacies, acts of kindness, unwavering integrity, and the invisible threads that connect memory, identity, and belonging. Each chapter is a tribute to people who taught that true wealth lies not in possessions, but in values carried within.

Tender, reflective, and profoundly human, this book reminds us that while history may change places and circumstances, courage, compassion and character endure. Because sometimes, home is not a place we lose or find. It is something we carry within us.