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What does it take to challenge the system for over six decades?

In this episode of Expressions, lawyer and women’s rights advocate Pramila Nesargi speaks candidly about her journey in law, fighting for women’s rights, judicial accountability,access to justice, the Uniform Civil Code and the role of social media in society.

From challenging an examiner as an LLM student to taking on powerful institutions, Nesargi reflects on the battles that shaped her career and shares her views on what needs to change in India’s legal and social systems.

What to Look For:
• Her early battles as a young woman lawyer
• Judicial accountability and access to justice
• Women’s rights, marriage and equality
• Her views on freebies and political welfare schemes
• The Uniform Civil Code and women’s rights
• Justice delayed and the cost of litigation
• The responsibility of social media

People & Organisations Mentioned:
Justice Somnath Iyer
Justice Hombay Gowda
Chanakya
Chandragupta
Lord Basavanna
Justice Malimath
Supreme Court of India
Karnataka State Bar Council
Karnataka State Commission for Women.

About Pramila Nesargi:
Pramila Nesargi is a lawyer, educationist, politician and women’s rights advocate. She has spent decades working in law, public life and social causes, and was the first woman in 50 years to become Chairman of the Karnataka StateBar Council.

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