. Her journey as a lawyer :

It was 1958. Leila Seth had topped the London Bar exam . she was the first woman to do so  then, she was back to Calcutta . she thought to start her own practice. She went to Sachin Chaudhuri, a senior barrister, and asked him if she could assist him. Chaudhuri told the 28-year-old that a lawyer's profession was not for women and that she would be better get married.Seth replied that she was married already.Chaudhuri said that in that case, she should have a child.To which Seth said that she did have one.Undeterred, the older man told her, "It's selfish to have just one child, you should have another."And Seth murmured that she had had a second child too.After that, says Seth, laughing, Chaudhuri relented. "'You're a persistent young woman,' he said, and accepted me as his assistant. [caption id="attachment_18673" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Autobiography of Leila Seth[/caption]