was born into a  Rajapur Saraswat Brahmin  family,in Bombay (now  Mumbai ). His mother Rajni worked in the insurance industry,and his father Ramesh Tendulkar, a  Marathi  novelist, named Tendulkar after his favourite music director,  Sachin Dev Burman . Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit encouraged him to play cricket. Tendulkar has two other