Tipping the scales: Wknd interviews newly retired Supreme Court justice Hima Kohli

As a woman, it hasn’t been easy. Even as a high court judge, she was asked to set event menus. Looking back, so much has changed, she says.

Hima Kohli was the first lawyer in a family of businessmen, teachers and homemakers. She would later be the first woman chief justice of Telangana, and one of only 11 women to serve as a judge in the country’s Supreme Court.

“I did not plan on becoming a judge. You cannot plan to become a judge in any case,” she says, smiling. But, she admits, the journey was not an easy one.

Justice Kohli, 65, retired a month ago, after