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• Karuna Nundy is an Indian Lawyer on the Supreme Court of India. Her work is targeted on constitutional regulation, industrial litigation and arbitration, media regulation, and authorized coverage. Nundy has served as a lawyer within the United Nations, International Tribunals, and the New York. Karuna has been associated as one among three feminists directing a brand new wave together with Arundhati Roy and Vrinda Grover by the Times of India (an Indian English-language day by day newspaper). Mint (an Indian monetary day by day newspaper revealed by HT Media) had known as her an “Agent of Change” and Forbes journal had represented her as a “Mind that Matters.”

• After finishing research at St.Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Karuna labored as a TV journalist for a brief interval. In an interview, Nundy stated that she was explicit about returning again to India after finishing her Law research within the US as a result of she needed to make an enormous contribution via her authorized work. She stated,
  

  Growing up in a society with each excessive poverty and riches, I realised early on how unfair life was. Certain issues that occurred in my childhood—molesters simply grabbing you on the streets, an incident in my faculty the place the principal went into victim-blame mode—made me take into consideration how I might result in change and acquire the facility to sort things most successfully.”

• In an interview with the Huffington Post, Karuna acknowledged that as a lawyer she needed to contribute not solely to the human rights work in India but additionally as a basic lawyer. She talked about,
  

  I felt that right here is the place I might make the largest contribution—not simply in human rights work, but additionally as a basic lawyer. I felt that is the place the necessity was. I’ve a visceral understanding of those varied layers [here], when it comes to language, when it comes to nuance, and data…It can be a court docket of concepts, as a lot as it’s a court docket of details. It has been fairly a pacesetter relating to financial and social rights.”

• Karuna had been dedicatedly concerned in offering justice for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal fuel tragedy. She had contributed to the most important industrial authorized insurance policies and human rights litigation in India. Kruna challenged the governmental and company nexus through the Bhopal fuel tragedy case, which was tough as a result of elevated corruption, by demanding secure consuming water to the individuals in these affected areas. She needed to fragment chemical-filled groundwater to those areas and to offer higher healthcare and medical amenities for the poor individuals.

• In an interview, in 2013, when Nundy was requested about worldwide experiences, she stated she had additionally labored in drafting the interim structure of Nepal which particularly included girls and kids’s rights. She added that she had additionally participated in lots of workshops with the senate of Pakistan on legislating constitutional rights. She stated,
  

  My worldwide expertise contains industrial arbitrations and bilateral funding treaty work in addition to constitutional work. I helped draft elements of the interim structure of Nepal, the place we particularly included girls’s and kids’s rights, carried out workshops with the senate of Pakistan on legislating constitutional rights, and labored with the federal government of Bhutan on compliance with worldwide treaties.”

• In 2013, in a dialog with the media particular person, Nundy revealed about gender justice finished within the Indian structure by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar that was pre-dominantly framed by upper-caste and upper-class males of Indian society. She additionally spoke concerning the equality of all individuals earlier than the regulation. She stated,
  

  Our Constitution was framed predominantly by upper-caste, upper-class males, however the principle architect of that Constitution—sensible Dr B.R. Ambedkar—was in some ways a person who understood gender justice, and had a very good deal with on substantive and formal equality. So we’ve got Article 14 which speaks about equality of all individuals earlier than regulation, however there’s additionally Article 15, which acknowledges that the taking part in area just isn’t stage and says that nothing will are available in the best way of constructing particular provisions for girls and kids.”

• In 2013, a significant turning level in Karuna Nundy’s life was when she dedicatedly engaged with legal guidelines coping with anti-rape payments and sexual harassment of ladies in India. She was concerned within the Nirbhaya Rape Case- a horrific incident that gained a rage each inside India and throughout the globe. Karuna was consulted through the preparation of the Verma Committee Report set as much as assessment India’s Anti-Rape Laws by the federal government of India. Initially, the report had not gained a lot success however it was a victory to the efforts in passing the Criminal Law (Amendment)2 Act, 2013– “the anti-rape bill.”

• In 2015, within the case of Shreya Singhal v. Union of India, Nundy fought on behalf of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), an NGO that defends civil liberties and human rights in India, and introduced down the part 66A of the Information Technology, 2000 (that handled problems with freedom of speech and censorship).

• In 2016, Nundy fought for Jeeja Ghosh within the case in opposition to SpiceJet Airlines. The consumer of Karuna, Ms. Ghosh, had cerebral palsy and boarded a flight from Kolkata to Goa. She was requested to go away the flight by airline employees as a result of she didn’t see properly they usually didn’t need her situation to worsen. She sued the airline within the Supreme Court and urged that the airline deal with differently-abled passengers, badly. The Supreme Court fined the airline to pay Rs 10 lakh to Jeeja Ghosh and to retrain SpiceJet employees on the wants and remedy of such passengers.

• In January 2017, by an Economic Times jury, Karuna Nundy was included in a listing of ‘Corporate India’s Fastest Rising Women Leaders.’ It Cited Karuna as being ‘famous in the corporate world for her expertise in commercial law.’

• In 2017, Supreme Court advocate Karuna Nandy stated that criminalizing the moment Triple Talaq in Muslims was in opposition to freedom of speech in India. She stated,
  

  Saying Talaq Talaq Talaq is identical as saying – Mein apko divorce de raha hoon.  In such a state of affairs, are you going to criminalize that?  How can that be felony? Isn’t that in opposition to free speech ? Since marriage is legitimate solely when adults are concerned, and since that makes little one marriages void ab initio, that little one marriages shouldn’t be criminalized?”

• In April 2018, in an interview, Karuna defined how she selected Law as a career. She stated that she selected the instances, retaining in thoughts, that should have a long-term impact on Indian society, and likewise admitted that she cherished the regulation as a career. She acknowledged that her purchasers weren’t simply purchasers, they performed the function of companions in her instances. She answered the interviewer,

• In 2018, on the 20th Beti FLO GR8 Awards, Karuna spoke for the upliftment of ladies in India and find out how to combat for girls’s rights, at J W Marriott Hotel, Juhu, Mumbai.

• In 2019, Karuna received the worldwide Trust regulation Award in London.
  

  Karuna whereas talking to the anchor at belief Law awards London,2019

• In March 2019, Nundy designed a workshop on authorized rights with ITC Vivel for 100 faculties.
  

  Karuna Nundy at a workshop designed by herself with ITC Vivel in 2019

• In November 2019, Karuna Nundy met chancellor Angela Merkel throughout her two-day go to to India. Karuna stated that Angela Merkel impressed her quite a bit, not just for Angela’s brave management but additionally she stored on re-elected within the German elections.
  

  Karuna’s Instagram submit when she met Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2019

• Many interactive applications, speak reveals, and discussions on social media additionally shared Karuna Nundy’s expertise, uphold the worth and dignity of primary rights, and spreading consciousness about it.
  

  Karuna talking at a convention

• Karuna Nundy usually includes herself in constitutional work in addition to industrial arbitration and bilateral funding treaty work whereas preventing for the rights of ladies in India.
  

  Karuna quotes on girls whereas preventing for his or her rights

• Karuna has featured in lots of particular points of assorted famend magazines and tabloids along with her profitable life achievements as a lawyer.
  

  Karuna Posed for Forbes Magazine

• In March 2020, on International Women’s Day, Karuna defined in an interview with {a magazine}, to take a pledge to work all year long for the welfare of ladies in India and combat in opposition to girls violence in India. She stated,
  

  All individuals, pledge to work all 12 months ’spherical in opposition to the violence, disrespect and boundaries hat persist in opposition to girls. Within us and with out. Bit by ugly bit. Let’s pledge to face by the citizenship of Muslim girls, to assist rebuild their lives, to finish the structural oppression of Bahujan girls, to incorporate disabled girls.”

  

  Karuna Nundy’s interview revealed in a reknowned journal

• In 2020, Karuna overtly supported the victory of Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, and his Aam Aadmi Party within the Delhi elections, via one among her social media posts.
  

  Karuna’s Instagram submit supporting AAP’s victory in Delhi, 2020

• In 2020, Karuna Nundy supported the protest in opposition to the CAA [The Citizenship Amendment Act (Bill)] invoice at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. She posted it on her social media account.
  

  Karuna Nundy’s Instagram submit about anti CAA protest

   

• Karuna Nundy is a canine lover. She usually posts footage of her canine on her social media accounts.
  

  Karuna along with her canine, Tigger

• In an interview, on preventing for civil rights, Karuna was requested what sort of democracy she most well-liked and believed. Ms. Nundy stated that she believes in democracy solely. She quoted,
  

  I’m an important believer in deliberative democracy; the place you converse, however you additionally hear. You come via the opposite facet with variations intact, however you additionally come via collectively in essential methods.”

• In 2020, Karuna Nundy participated to help media freedom led by Lord David Neuberger and Amal Clooney in a UK panel, in England.

• In March 2020, Karuna Nundy labored on the ‘Right to Food’ drafting committee with Reetika Khera, Jeam Dreze, and Aruna Roy.
  

  Instagram submit of Karuna when she was on Right to Food drafting Committee, 2020

• Reportedly, Karuna Nundy’s father had labored at Harvard Medical School (Medical faculty in Boston, Massachusetts). In India, he labored at AIIMS however quickly he left the job as he needed to work at a public hospital in India. Karuna’s mom, Mita Nundy, the winner of a historical past prize within the London School of Economics, established the ‘Spastics Society of Northern India’ after studying that Karuna’s cousin was born with cerebral palsy (a congenital dysfunction of motion, muscle tone, or posture).

• In October 2020, in an interview with NDTV, Karuna Nundy spoke on the ‘Cancel Culture’ regulation that she needed to advertise in India and she or he added her views in opposition to the movement of tradition in Indian society and acknowledged that the boycott of so-called tradition will assist us to get our independence. She stated that the historical past of boycotts has a resonance in India.

• Karuna Nundy represents AIB in its varied controversial instances.