Indu Malhotra was born as a second generation lawyer in Bengaluru.Indu is the youngest child of late Om Prakash Malhotra who was a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India.Her father was also a distinguished author who had penned down a treatise on the Law of Industrial Disputes. At the fag end of his life, he authored a commentary on the Law & Practice of Arbitration and Conciliation.When she was young, she moved to Delhi.After finishing her schooling from Carmel Convent School, New Delhi, she did her B.A. (Hons.) Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College.While pursuing her Law at the Delhi University, she would be a Delhi University lecturer in the morning and a law student in the evening.As a teacher, Indu Malhotra also had a short stint at Miranda House College and Vivekananda College in Delhi.In 1983, when Indu joined the legal profession, she was in her late 20s.She has spent more than three decades of her litigation career at the Supreme Court.In 1988, in the Advocate-on-Record examination for the Supreme Court, Indu Malhotra secured the first position. The exam is a tough one to crack for most lawyers.