Meet the lawyer who fought for Bhopal gas tragedy survivors and helped frame India s anti-rape bill
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Forty-one-year-old Karuna Nundy is one of the most successful women in a male-dominated profession. She also acts as a torchbearer for the exploited and underprivileged as for her, being a lawyer isn t a profession but a calling. Talking about this, she told the Growing up in a society with both extreme poverty and riches, I realised early on how unfair life was. Certain things that happened in my childhood molesters just grabbing you on the streets, an incident in my school where the principal went into victim-blame mode made me think about how I could bring about change and gain the power to fix things most effectively.