Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi

Advocate

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

@CJP_for_India I am a lawyer in Mumbai. I have always complied and always believed that I will be honest in my work, and that’s how I can make a difference in this country. I would like to help. I am a lawyer with 32 years of experience.

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

Watched the movie HAQ that unsettled me.

50 years after the Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum case, the question still lingers:

Does responsibility end with separation?

Family courts, maintenance is often resisted not due to inability, but as a strategy.

Scape goat Children

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

A moment of law practice to be celebrated.

Represented a gentleman through his divorce.
He returned, stating he was rebuilding his life, marrying a widow with a 10 year old son . Wanted assistance to adopt the 10 year old son of his wife. We @ SVS legal did it in record time.

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

Is this even Human, that India Shining Cannot give us a right to travel safely to our work place . ⁦@indianrailway__⁩ @PMOIndia⁩ ⁦@SupremeCourtFan⁩ @Bombayhighcourt ⁦@IndianRailMedia⁩ https://t.co/bQzEAkvUM6

[Sujit Nair @sujitnair90]

“The day I got my postgraduate degree, I didn’t waste a minute– I rushed back to my village, Ausgrum in Bengal to become a teacher. Yes, I had higher salary offers from schools in bigger towns, but for me, the 169 Rs. I was offered at my school village meant everything; I was hungry to teach the students from my village who needed a good teacher the most.
And I taught at my school for 39 years and only retired because I’d hit my ‘retirement age’– 60, what a ridiculous concept!
So there I was at 60, retired and expected to spend my years drinking sugary tea and whiling away my time on the charpoy! But I was restless, I didn’t want to retire and kept asking myself, ‘What shall I do now?’ A few days later, I got the answer.
One morning, around 6:30 AM, I saw 3 young girls enter my house. I was shocked when they told me they’d cycled for over 23 kms to see the Master who’d retired! They were young tribal girls who were desperate to learn; with folded hands they asked, ‘Masterji, will you teach us?’ I immediately agreed and said, ‘I can teach you, but you will have to pay my school fees for the whole year–are you ready to pay?’
They said, ‘Yes, Masterji, we will manage the money somehow.’
So I said, ‘Yes, my fees are Rupee 1 for the whole year!’
They were so happy, they hugged me and said, ‘We will pay you 1 Rupee and 4 chocolates also!’
I was elated! So, after they left, I put on my dhoti and went straight back to my school and requested them to give me a classroom to teach…they refused. But I wasn’t going to stop– I had years of teaching left in me, so I went back home, cleaned my verandah and decided to start teaching there.
That was in 2004–my Pathshala started with those 3 girls and today we have over 3000 students per year, most of whom are young tribal girls. My day still starts at 6 AM with a walk around the village and then I open my doors to students coming from all over– some of the girls walk for 20 plus kilometres; I have so much to learn from them!
Over the years, my students have gone on to become professors, heads of departments and IT professionals– they always call me and give me the good news and as always, I ask them to please give me some chocolates! And last year, when I won the Padmashree, my phone didn’t stop ringing; the whole village celebrated with me–it was a happy day, but I still didn’t allow my students to bunk class!
And my doors are open to all– come visit me and my Pathshala anytime; our village is beautiful and all my students are bright–I am sure you can learn something from them!
So that’s my story– I am a simple teacher from Bengal who enjoys his tea and evening naps on his charpoy. The highlight of my life is being called Master Moshai–I want to teach until my last breath; it’s what I was put on this planet to do!”

Sujit Chattopadhyay

President Kovind presents Padma Shri to Shri Sujit Chatterjee for Literature and Education. A retired school teacher from Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, he is recognised over the state for his free coaching center named “Sadai Fakirer Pathsala”. (Courtesy: Characters of Calcutta)

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Neerja Bhanot was a 22 year old flight attendant on a hijacked plane, Pan Am Flight 73 on 5 September 1986 during a stopover

The terrorists demanded her to collect the passports of all the passengers, intending to identify the Americans among them. Recognizing the danger this posed, she and her fellow attendants under her charge hid the passports of the American passengers, some under seats and others down a garbage chute, making it difficult for the hijackers to distinguish between nationalities.
As the hijacking stretched on for 17 hours the terrorists eventually resorted to violence by opening fire and setting off explosives.

Neerja opened one of the airplane doors, and even though she could have been the first one to escape from the aircraft, she did not do so and instead started helping the other passengers and unaccompanied children. That is when she was caught and her courage was met with extreme cruelty. She was killed.

Neerja's actions saved many lives.

In addition to saving the lives of many hostages, Neerja Bhanot also helped prevent the plane from getting off the ground

A young child on board, who was just seven years old at the time, grew up to become a captain for a major airline. He credits Neerja as his inspiration, acknowledging that he owes every day of his life to her

[मॅथ्यू अँटनी|Mathew Antony|മാത്യു ആന്റണി @mathewmantony]

We request @smritiirani , @nsitharaman & @AnupriyaSPatel to think whether they have daughters , sisters , mothers or ang relatives .

Had any of their own ones had to experience the cruelty that happened with the women in Manipur how do you all feel.

If you have political helplessness to keep quite , at least show the spine & courage to give up your minister jobs to show solidarity with women.

This is shocking than what happened with women in Taliban & ISIS custody.

Don't be so selfish to retain your minister job & become a National shame & insult to women's hood.

#horrible
#ManipurViolence
#ManipurBurning
#kuki
#resignsmritiirani

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

Coming, women-only courts for
alternative dispute resolution
Fifty villages each in Assam and J&K to be pilots for special women’s courts to be set up at gram panchayat level.

# women empowerment
# women mediators

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

@ city civil court, Dindoshi. @ ministry of law and justice @KirenRijiju state of the washroom of ladies toilet in ladies bar room in Mumbai.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Today when I met Azim Premji, he related a very touching incident to me:

In a recent visit to a village, he asked a young girl “Tum kaun ho? Kya karti ho?”
She replied “Main bhookhi hoon.”😢

And then he added, that’s the India we all have to work towards and change!

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

@RustomjeeSpaces @mybmc @BRustomjee It’s almost three months and the road work is not moving …. To aide you?
@mybmc road 2, Khernagar Bandra East kindly is a construction site every two week we see some movement as though the road is being repaired… just to cloud the actual truth.

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

@mybmc @BRustomjee Rustomjee Erika has taken over the whole public road no2 and using the same as their site office since a month. People and students of school have no access to the road .

[Tavleen Singh @tavleen_singh]

A reminder that India’s Parliament was once a forum for speeches that were elegant and compelling.

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

@RustomjeeSpaces @mybmc @BRustomjee No you have all your construction material on the road and the cement mixers are also operating from the public road .

[Dr. S.Y. Quraishi @DrSYQuraishi]

When the day and the night are equal (21st March and 23rd September), the sun appears every 5 minutes in each of the 5 windows of the Padmanabhswami Temple
in Kerala.
Built in 1566 CE.
An architectural marvel.

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

@malinibhupta @sanjivrbajaj @RBI Bajaj Finance should not be spared for hassling a honest person.

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

https://t.co/hnmePOKikY

[Sandhya Vasudevan Sondhi @SandhyaSondhi]

@vanam_offcl @RohitSh62000547 Dance like no one is watching !! Just loved this .