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.
Harsh Mander: A lesson in how to end the mass suffering unleashed by India’s first lockdown
A report by the collective Hunger Watch reveals the extent of continuing hunger caused by state policy, and recommends ways to end the distress. 2 hours ago A migrant worker feeds her child water while they wait in a queue for transport to reach Ahmedabad railway station to board a train to their home state of Uttar Pradesh. | Amit Dave/Reuters
A spectacularly uncaring, unaccountable state has abandoned Indians to their fate. Bodies are piling up, pyres burn late into the night, and corpses are buried in anonymous mass graves. Loved ones are choking to death because their governments failed to secure them oxygen. Vaccines have fallen short in a country that prides itself as the vaccine factory of the world. Black marketeering thrives in life-saving hospital beds, medicines and oxygen concentrators. Confused lockdowns have once again spurred the panicked exodus
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The country’s overcrowded prisons are in danger of becoming major hotspots for the spread of the disease.
As the second wave of the pandemic rages across India, the country’s overcrowded prisons are in danger of becoming major hotspots for the spread of the disease. Dozens of political prisoners, mainly civil rights activists, continue to languish in prison indefinitely with no possibility of their trials commencing any time soon.
Here we discuss the issue of overcrowded prisons during the pandemic.
Guests: Sanjay Hegde, is a Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India;
V. Suresh, is a National General Secretary for the People’ Union for Civil Liberties.
Lawyer who documented 6,733 Punjab disappearances, illegal cremations booked on 2019 I&B complaint 13 May 2021
The PDAP says it has documented at least 6,733 cases of disappearances and illegal cremations between 1984 and 1995, a period of turmoil in Punjab. It released a documentary on these cases, titled “Punjab Disappeared,” in 2019. That year, the MHA told the I&B that the documentary propagated “the agenda of pro-khalistan elements.”
The PDAP says it has documented at least 6,733 cases of disappearances and illegal cremations between 1984 and 1995, a period of turmoil in Punjab. It released a documentary on these cases, titled “Punjab Disappeared,” in 2019. That year, the MHA told the I&B that the documentary propagated “the agenda of pro-khalistan elements.”