Karuna Nundy has shaped much of the law around gender justice and freedom of speech, taking on corporations and governments
Lawyer Karuna Nundy has little doubt that her phone has been tapped. She tells me this almost lightheartedly, over, well, a (freewheeling) phone call from her Delhi office, recalling a particularly unnerving piece of news.
Nundy, a Supreme Court advocate, has been tirelessly fighting for victims and families of those affected in the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, among the world’s worst industrial disasters—it killed thousands and has left another several thousand with permanent disability and injuries. This piece of news she refers to came out back in February 2012, and alleged that a US-based security think tank called Stratfor was spying on people working on the case, according to whistleblowers at Wikileaks.
“ We need to look at who people actually are and what they need when we are making legislations for them.”
(This story appears in the 13 March, 2020 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)