Indira Jaising
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Indira Jaising was born in 1940 in Mumbai. She went to school in Mumbai and graduated in Bangalore, before getting her degree in law in 1962. She was awarded a fellowship to study at London in 1969-70 by the Institue of Advanced Legal Studies and became a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School in 1988. She later became the secretary of the Lawyers Collective, an organization that provides legal funding for the underprivlieged sections of Indian society.
She founded a monthly magazine called The Lawyers, in 1986, which focuses on social justice and women's issues in the context of Indian law. She has been involved in cases related to the discrimination against women, the Muslim Personal Law, rights of pavement dewllers and the homeless and the Bhopal gas tragedy. She has fought against child labor, for the economic rights of women, estranged wives and domestic violence cases.
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