As a newborn baby, Meena was found under a palm tree in the south of the Indian subcontinent. The child was discovered by a gardener and brought across the street to a hospital. A year later she was adopted by the German book author Alfons Sarrach and his wife Anneliese Sarrach-Hempel, a historian and brought to Germany.
She turned out to be a talented child. At the age of four she started to read and play the recorder and by the time she was five, she began playing the violin.
During this time the greatest polish pianist / UNO of the 20th century, Adam Harasiewicz, who, among other things, won the internationally acclaimed Chopin competition in 1955 which was followed by a performance in front of the Uno in New York, was guest in the house of the family.
During her time at secondary school she studied Latin, English, French and Russian. Together with her parents she undertook many study trips to countries like Poland, Hungary, former Yugoslavia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, France, Belgium and England.
At the age of eighteen she moved to the Lake District, in the north of England. Two years later she settled down in Birmingham where she lives to the present day, despite occasional stays in Germany.
