Begging for the Greatest Cause: Professor Sandeep Manohar Desai Continues Giving Hope to Hundreds of Poor Children Please Read, Like, Tag and SHARE!! Remember inspiration is CONTAGIOUS... :) A former marine engineer and a professor at a reputed management institute in Mumbai, Sandeep Manohar Desai is often seen in Mumbai’s suburban trains holding a begging bowl. He asks commuters for contributions to teach underprivileged slum children. Begging on trains may be a crime punishable under Section 144 of the Railways Act, with an imprisonment up to one year and a fine, but that does not deter 51-year-old Prof Sandeep Manohar Desai from virtually going around with a begging bowl on Mumbai’s suburban trains for two to three days. A marine engineer-turned-management studies lecturer-turned-social worker, Desai unabashedly admits that he has, for some time, been resorting to the unusual means of seeking money from commuters travelling by Mumbai’s suburban trains. When he began this unus...