Karuna Nundy

Karuna Nundy is an Indian lawyer at the Supreme Court of India and the focus of her work is on constitutional law, commercial litigation and arbitration, media law and legal policy.[2][3][4][5][6]

Karuna Nundy
Nundy at Press Club of India in 2018
Born (1976-01-04) 4 January 1976[1]

Background

Nundy grew up with a desire to serve her community and nation through her skills. Growing up, her parents also actively committed themselves to government and community service. Her father worked at Harvard Medical School, but left to work at AIIMS and work in a public hospital in India. Her mother, after learning that Nundy's cousin was born of cerebral palsy, started the Spastics Society of Northern India.[7]

Education

She received a degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.[8] After a short stint as a TV journalist[8][9] she studied law at Cambridge University,[9][8] and later pursued LL.M. from Columbia University, New York.[3]

Career

Nundy worked as a lawyer in United Nations.[8] In 2016, she represented Jeeja Ghosh in case against SpiceJet Airlines. Ms. Ghosh had cerebral palsy and had boarded a flight from Kolkata to Goa. She was asked by airline staff to disembark the flight claiming she didn't look well and they didn't want her condition to deteriorate. She was humiliated. She pursued a case against the airline and the Supreme Court and urged airlines to treat differently abled travelers. The Supreme Court ruled in her favor and ordered airline to pay Rs 10 lakh to her and for all air carriers to train their staff on needs and treatment of such passengers.[10]

Activism

Nundy has also played a significant role in drafting the anti-rape bill after the 2012 Delhi gang rape.[11] In 2019, the UK foreign office appointed the lawyer to a new panel of experts to develop legal frameworks to protect freedom of the media across the globe.[12] She has also advised and worked on policy issues for the Nepal Interim Constitution, a workshop with the Senate of Pakistan, the Government of Bhutan, and legal reform in the Maldives with the Attorney General's Office and Chief Justice of the Maldives Supreme Court.[13] Nundy also participates in a UK panel to support media freedom led by Lord David Neurberger and Amal Clooney.[14]

Accomplishments

In November 2019, she also met German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, during her 2-day visit to India.[15] Nundy was included by an Economic Times jury in a list of 'Corporate India's Fastest Rising Women Leaders' which cited her as being 'famous in the corporate world for her expertise in commercial law'.[16][17] In 2020, Forbes Magazine named her on the their list of "Self Made Women 2020."[18]

Quotes

On fighting for civil rights, "I’m a great believer in deliberative democracy; where you speak, but you also listen. You come through the other side with differences intact, but you also come through together in important ways."[19]

References
  1. @karunanundy (11 April 2018). "Happy Birthday" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 June 2019 – via Twitter. |date= mismatches calculated date from |number= by two or more days (help)
  2. "The Coalition". Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  3. "Meet The Lawyer Who Fought For Bhopal Disaster Survivors And Many Other Groundbreaking Things - WittyFeed India". Dailyhunt. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  4. Reporter, Dominique Mosbergen; Post, The Huffington (24 November 2015). "How One Female Lawyer in India Is Fighting For Women's Basic Rights". Huffington Post. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  5. "Inspiring life of Karuna Nundy- India's finest Lawyers – MotivateMe.in". motivateme.in. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  6. Arya, Asmita (1 September 2018). "Meet Karuna Nundy, The Revolutionary Powerhouse Who Fought For Victims Of The Bhopal Gas Tragedy". ScoopWhoop. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  7. "Meet Karuna Nundy, The Lawyer Who Helped Frame India's Anti-Rape Bill". femina.in. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  8. Ghoshal, Somak (10 August 2013). "Freedom from injustice - An agent of change". Mint. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  9. VagaBomb (16 May 2016). "Meet Powerhouse Advocate Karuna Nundy, Who Is Fighting for the Rights of Every Indian Woman". VagaBomb. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  10. "Jeeja Ghosh And Another v. Union Of India And Others | Supreme Court Of India | Judgment | Law | CaseMine". www.casemine.com. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  11. Lal, Parineeti (22 May 2018). "Meet the Lawyer who fought Nirbhaya's Case- Karuna Nundy". Swadesh | Official Blog of Unnati Silks. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  12. "Indian lawyer Karuna Nundy on UK panel for new media framework". Hindustan Times. 16 July 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  13. "Meet Karuna Nundy, The Lawyer Who Helped Frame India's Anti-Rape Bill". femina.in. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  14. "Meet Karuna Nundy, The Lawyer Who Helped Frame India's Anti-Rape Bill". femina.in. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  15. "Angela Merkel meets five women including AAP leader Atishi, Karuna Nundy during two day India trip". The New Indian Express. PTI. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  16. "ET Women Ahead: Corporate India's fastest rising women leaders". The Economic Times. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  17. "Famous Female Advocates in India Who Committed Their Lives f - PATHLEGAL". www.pathlegal.in. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  18. "Karuna Nundy: Without Fear Or Favour". Forbes India. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  19. Mosbergen, Dominique (24 November 2015). "How One Female Lawyer In India Is Fighting For Women's Basic Rights". HuffPost. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
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