Dr Mrs Arundhati Sardesai is a well known educationist and writer. She is on board of several educational and research institutions and is currently actively engaged in Manavya - a residential care and rehabilitation center of HIV/AIDS affected destitute/orphaned children and women. The reason she is profiled here is that she has been a teacher all her life, in schools and colleges. And she led some teacher education institutes like Raja Shree Shivaraya Pratishthan and Meenatai Thakre D. Ed.College, Pune and worked for adult literacy too. She delivers many talks on AIR Pune, varied public functions and has written articles in Hindi, English and Marathi in journals & magazines.