Madhuri Palshikar

lawyer, procrastinator, reader, thinker, hesitant and unsure viewer of the world around ...

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

@nivedita_Him @kkatul Thank you ☺️

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

@godbole_shilpa There are two occasions when I treat myself with my own company… one when I have achieved a small victory and another when I have had a small set back….
Not that I lack loving and attentive company, but I actually need to be with myself.

[Nivedita Khandekar @nivedita_Him]

Am extremely blessed to have such luxuries!!!

How about you tweeps?

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

This 1990 news article was a contemplative discussion about women lawyers and their struggles. My mother was one of them.

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

All of these lawyers persevered and most are still practising. One of them became a family court judge, one became a senior counsel and others also achieved success as lawyers….
These are our seniors who paved the way for us.
I am very proud to carry forward their legacy.

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

@rons1212 I think it is the fear. One is fearful of the choice one has made and what holds in future. Fear of what if the new choice will make you even more unhappy?

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

@nivedita_Him @KirloVasundhara Many Congratulations Nivedita! One more feather in your cap!!

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

Aap jahape extra karna chahte ho, life mein wahi pe aapko ordinary bana dete hain, life ki yahi tragedy hai #sajnishindekaviralvideo @NetflixIndia
Reality of a woman’s life!

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

@rons1212 Mulyachi koshimbir
Grate Mula add a bit of salt, let it sit for a bit then remove water then add salt a pinch of sugar then give tadka of mohri Halad hing and green chilli

[Derek O'Brien | ডেরেক ও'ব্রায়েন @derekobrienmp]

What a glorious moment for Indian sport. If there’s one video you must watch today, it’s this. The disbelief in the commentators voice at 2.28 mins… "Is that India") 😇
4 x 400 men’s relay, amongst the best in the universe. Yahiya, Jacob, Ajmal, Rajesh. Love 💙u guys 🇮🇳

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

While every Indian knows about Jallianwala Bagh massacre, few of us think about the reactions of the British public to the event. The massacre itself was blacked out by the government in India and martial law was in place. When news got out, the British tabloids referred to Jallianwala Bagh massacre as the “Amritsar affair” — in an obvious use of minimising language.
How could the “affair “ change the attitudes of British public if they were denied truth? The answer lies , as often, in the efforts one man. A man whose origins are as far away from Punjab as one can imagine.

Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair was born in an aristocratic family in 1857 in Palakkad district of Kerala. His strong sense of fairness and justice, drove him to pursue law. Nair was an iconoclast and defied the dictates of Vakil association, which said no Indian would work under a British barrister. His reason : his clients had the freedom to choose their lawyer. To him justice mattered more than the color of the lawyer’s skin. He was a vociferous advocate of social reforms.

As Madras High court judge, he ruled that those who converted to Hinduism cannot be treated as outcastes. He also supported inter-religious marriages and was clearly ahead of his time. He became the youngest leader of Indian National congress. When the Montagu Chelmsford reforms were introduced in 1908, he called out the act as being partial. Even though Sir Edwin Montagu called him an “impossible man” , the British respected his moral rectitude and knighted him in 1912. In 1915 Nair became a member of the powerful Viceroy council and was given the education portfolio.
Then Jallianwala Bagh happened.

Nair resigned from the Viceroy council in protest - something unheard of , at that time. . He wrote “Gandhi and Anarchy” in which he openly accused Punjab Governor Michael O’Dwyer (the man who would be later shot by Shaheed Udham Singh). In response, O’Dwyer filed a defamation suit against Nair.

Nair faced a suit against a British man in a British court , presided over by a British judge and a British jury. All cards were stacked against him - yet he fought valiantly. The trial was the longest civil case London had seen until that time and lasted five and a half weeks. It laid threadbare the British atrocities in India and got extensive press coverage , something neither Nair nor O’Dwyer could have imagined. The British public, for the first time, understood that the call for Indian Swarajya wasn’t rebellious or seditious.

Sadly Nair lost the case 11 to 1 and had to pay a fine of 500 pounds. O’Dwyer said he would forgo that amount if Nair apologises. To which Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair said, “ I would rather pay 500 pounds than say something I don’t believe in. Besides what’s the guarantee that the next 12 shopkeepers in a British court wouldn’t side with their own? “

His fearless nature ensured that people all over the world heard about Jallianwala Bagh massacre. From New York to Paris, from Berlin to Moscow , Nair shook the image of the mighty British Empire, if only for five weeks.

Not all battles are fought for victory. Some are fought simply to tell the world that someone was there on the battlefield. The greatest tragedy such a warrior can face is being forgotten, erased from the history books of the very nation he fought for. The least we can do to correct such historic wrongs, is to tell our children about courage and conviction of our heroes.

Happy Independence Day !

Jai Hind !

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

@MsAnjaliB I agree with you, but one needs to effort fully demonstrate your feelings. Mainly for students and children to learn and physically see your respect and love for your nation. True that all adults don’t need to make every moment a teaching moment! Maybe it’s a parent thing !

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

@_AdilHussain So beautiful and touching! Loved all the videos… please do more like these

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

@amarbarwe Bhidin bai 😂 my surname is Bhide

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@PradeepHardikar @godbole_shilpa We even have someone who just waves at makkhi and mosquitoes instead of killing them !! Of course they exert their teen rights to complain about this!!!

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Dude is losing his shit over California saying casteism is not okay.

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

I am just curious, how many great women painters do you know? …. I just know two or three Indians… Anjolie Ela Menon, Prafulla Dahanukar…

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@kishalay @nivedita_Him

[Madhuri Palshikar @Madhuri_Legal]

@rons1212 Yes, the marble version and the iron version..