An arrogant professor, with a sole ambition in life --- TORTURE! Many a Law Student has faced this, and many more shall don the robes of the ‘Sacrificial Lamb’. Here’s to all those Legal Raavan’s who have made an otherwise heavenly Law School Experience hell for the students!

PS – The sole inspiration for this post has been one of the entries under the Facebook Group ‘You know you are in Law School When’, which refers to “Professors who just didn’t get enough hugs as children.”

PS2 – (Disclaimer, not the PlayStation Series) – This post is in all probability Fictitious. Any similarity with any Professor, dead or alive, killing or survived, is completely unintentional, and deeply (as deep as LegalPoet’s Thoughts) regretted.

Legal Raavan: Every Law Student’s Nightmare!!!

He entered the classroom,

With long, arrogant strides.

With a no non-sense hair-cut,

Where from stemmed such pride?!?!

I’m Professor Bond, James Bond, said he.

007 without a good cause is a twat, ain’t he???

He behaved like the Devil! The Apocalypse was here!

We thought of him as Raavan, in the Legal sphere.

With Condescension as his weapon,

And a devilish smile to match.

He had earned himself a scholarship,

Through a boundary and a catch.

He returned with his scholarship,

Glowing with conceit.

His own bad grades and failures

Seemed to take a back seat.

He now made it his life’s aim,

To denigrate and demoralize;

His students worked day and night,

Alas! There was no prize!

As toil and sweat went in vain,

They took a valiant stand.

Like the Titans of Alexander,

They wanted to bajaao band!

Many protests followed,

But the Devil wouldn’t leave his den.

Arrogance made his head swell up,

Till he sprouted ten!

Grades Plummeted, Administration Crumbled,

As the foolish devil growled and grumbled.

Students cried, some even died.

This just reminded me of the ‘3 Idiots’ suicide.

How on earth could one conquer;

A Force that was so strong.

That had engulfed all power in its wake

All this seemed so wrong.

Then the Ramayan started to show its truth.

It wasn’t just a myth.

The Constitution of the College

Found its Substance and Pith.

Legal Raavan was relieved.

Relieved of all his duties!

With 9 of his 10 bloated heads punctured;

He was sent away with stones and jooties.

Thus Legal Raavan was conquered.

There is proof that Ram Exists.

Please do not lose hope while you face yours,

He shall soon be kicked into the abyss!

Comments

Anonymous guest 17 May 2010, 23:39
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This is excellent and on a social issue :) And its bang on. Great work poet. And its good to see you give hope to the oppressed and mismanaged places :P

@ Everyone who liked this -
An article I read (Yale L. Rev. of Law and Social Action) dissected the (US) lawschool phenomenon and the stakeholders’ role (including professors and their attitude, with reasons therefor). Anyone interested may access it at http://duncankennedy.net/documents/How the Law School Fails_A Polemic.pdf
LegalPoet 18 May 2010, 17:59
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legal poet dwiteeya :)...fabulous writing

btw @1...a social cause? really?
Anonymous guest 18 May 2010, 22:11
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Well .... social in the limited sense of lawschool dynamics. My interaction with colleagues tells me that every university would have the inevitable smug professors who would try to make life hell (like the Dean in 3 idiots) … and one or two of them would over-step and be kicked out from the university :)

Cheers,
#1
Anonymous guest 8 Jun 2010, 17:44
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"With a no non-sense hair-cut,"

"He had earned himself a scholarship,
Through a boundary and a catch.

He returned with his scholarship,
Glowing with conceit.

His own bad grades and failures
Seemed to take a back seat."

Resemblence with the Brave One is just a mere coincidence!!! Yeah right
Anonymous guest 8 Jun 2010, 18:39
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An awesome tribute to the Brave One. But grapevine has it that the Ravan is here to stay.