An Inspiring Life | The Indian Express

An Inspiring Life | The Indian Express

Written by Meenakshi Arora, Payal Chawla |Updated: August 15, 2019 12:08:09 am

Meenakshi Arora is a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India

Payal Chawla is founder of JUSCONTRACTUS, India’s first and only all-women law firm

An Inspiring Life

Sushma Swaraj belonged to all of us, she leaves behind a lasting legacy.

Sushma Swaraj actively participated in Jayaprakash Narayan’s Total Revolution movement, before joining the BJP. She became an MLA at a mere age of 25. (Source: Designed by Gargi Singh)

Every once in a generation, there comes a leader who provides a beacon of hope. For our generation that leader was Sushma Swaraj. As women lawyers, her journey was so personally inspiring to us. But the truth is we, women, alone cannot claim her. What she represented was so much beyond gender. She truly was what we want our leaders to be, our politics aside.