Synopsis After living all his life in India, and being very much a stay-at-home person, Nirad C Chaudhuri went abroad for the first time at the age of fifty-seven. It was brief, five weeks visit to England. A Passage to England is a vivid account of his delightful voyage to discovery. It is vintage Nirad Chaudhuri. He has written with 'freedom to be himself', without any obligation of being informative, edifying, hortatory, or even serious.