Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju : In TIME magazine list of 100 most influential people of 2019

The TIME magazine in its list of 100 most influential people of 2019 has two Indian women lawyers — Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju — who spearheaded the legal challenge to strike down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.The list also includes Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani.Katju is the niece of former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju. She was also a junior under senior advocate Sidharth Luthra in the Supreme Court.Guruswamy is the daughter of Mohan Guruswamy, a well-known political-thinker and adviser to former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

US President Donald Trump, China President Xi Jinping, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pope Francis, golfer Tiger Woods and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are among the prominent names to have featured in the TIME’s list.

Actor Priyanka Chopra wrote a profile for Katju and Guruswamy in TIME magazine after it released the influential people’s list on Wednesday.”Arundhati and Menaka have helped take a giant step for LGBTQ+ rights in the world’s largest democracy. In their committed fight for justice, they have shown us that we as a society must continue to make progress, even after laws are changed, and that we must make an effort to understand, accept and love,” Chopra wrote.

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