Navanethem “Navi” Pillay's journey from a working-class Indian family in apartheid-era South Africa to the highest levels of international justice is a remarkable story of determination, education and public service. It is also a story of the Indian diaspora, with family connections to the Telugu and Tamil cultural worlds of southern India. Navi Pillay (Navanethem Naidoo) Born Navanethem Naidoo in Durban in 1941, Pillay is widely described as a South African jurist of Tamil