The thing with clubs in Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai is that they give memberships to a broader cross section of society, plus corporate memberships. But Delhi Gym and Golf Club have been monopolised by the Congress ecosystem and memberships dominated by Congressi netas, babus, defence deal fixers, journalists etc. Corporate memberships generally not permitted. This is why the BJP people are pissed off and even many elite professionals (outside the Congress ecosystem) don’t like the club.

Several clubs came up during the British Raj as exclusive watering holes for the British and then extended to Anglo Indians and Brit loving Anglicised natives. Some elites felt shorted and apparently became very nationalistic and set up their own networking zones. Posh plots got leased out or enlarged for a song. The governing philosophy as elite zones for the cognoscenti didn't change just because Independence happened.

How the "public" benefitted is extremely debatable other that tall tales.

Here is a nuggets from Kolkata. Two prominent (essentially golf) clubs are prime properties which belonged to erstwhile estate of Tipu Sultan when his family was exiled to Kolkata just like Nawab of Lucknow.

The earnings from the leases to the club is supposed to be used for the descendants and public welfare. Forget Tipu and his folks or how had/good he was etc.

Successive WB govts, the self proclaimed seculars ever concerned with minority welfare or their supposed communal opposition (and now the ruling party here) did absolute zilch when it came to following the money.

I request anyone interested to find out how much these two clubs as annual lease fees to the WB govt and the current bump. Then compare with the land value appreciation across all these years. Okay the last 50 years. Or just the last 15 years.

Do the same for other well known Kolkata clubs. Don't be surprised if you get similar numbers for Delhi or Mumbai.

Forget the Iran War, forget the economy. This is the #1 topic of conversation among top lawyers in the country right now. I kid you not! People are wondering if top counsels like Sibal, AMS etc will appear pro bono and challenge this.

Meanwhile, here is a media interview of Supreme Advocate Riya Sachthey, who is a third generation member of the club. Her suggestion is that an alternative space can be created for third generation members like her. She is making the point that Mumbai and Kolkata have such clubs too.

https://x.com/ANI/status/2058214830851653993

I absolutely agree. Ten years ago one of my batchmates became an assistant professor without even NET. He did a masters from an NLU and got the job. He said there were barely 10 candidates and he was the only one with a LLM from an NLU (tier 2). Today I have a PHD+JRF from a tier 1 NLU and I still haven't gotten a call back. Could you imagine !!

He went straight to teaching with just an LLM. I went through net,then JRF, then PhD and now I don't have anything to show for and he already has a 8-9 year long career. This is utter BS!!!

Sanjeev wil do zilch. Maybe he will agree to have CAG audit al the Shree schemes of the TMC govt. But I doubt he will actually rock the boat despite the rhetoric. He will be too busy figuring out how to bring in big ticket investments and managing headline expenses. Ofc optics will be there.

Ideally the new govt should appoint a full time team of expert investigators and lawyers to pursue and dismantle the organised loot that took place.

It is a tiered issue. Jats vs Rajputs vs Brahmins. All of them against Yadav. Yadav vs Meena. But Meena vs Gurjar. Everyone against Banjara. Al. If then against Muslim. But Sunni vs Shia. Layered with Ashrafi vs Pasmanda.

And the game goes on. True the British played their part. But we started playing well before they or the Mughals came in. And we are still at it. Will not and cannot stop. It has been on for 5000 years.

Because a certain section of the society wants to be beneficiaries of legitimized discrimination (aka reservation) in view of some vague, unscientific, woke, abstract concepts such as "historical injustice", for perpetuity. Asking them to compete on merits would be violative of "social justice".

This should have happened long ago and yet nothing will change. There should be a cap on reservation hierarchy. People who's grandparents, then parents are civil servants are taking reservation. I mean come on now ! You've had two successive generations in the highest bureaucratic post in India and still you are taking reservation from the one who's a first gen. I truly believe, preference reservation should be given, especially in government jobs. So if you're a first gen, you should get the first dibs in reservation, then second gen and then third. After which reservation should not be given. Isn't this almost similar to a monarchy where the third generation is still benefiting when they've been ruling for two generations. Especially in Group A services ?

This is not abolishing reservation but spreading it to others especially the first generation who have not received the benefits even today.

Who is contesting this and on what ground? Placements have been worse and that's a fact. The pool has increased by 5 times. The offers haven't. Other NLU students get to intern in the middle of the semester, NLS students don't. Sudhir has been known to push for 3 year LLB students over 5 year students, leading to deterioration of relationships between the students of these two programmes. These have all been reported time and again on LI itself. The mod probably doesn't read the pieces themselves.

The BCL has always been superior to the Cambridge LLM, but in the last few years, the Cambridge LLM has become an utter joke. I have been in Cambridge long enough to see the quality of students deplete by the year. You will find a nice cross-section of Indian law students that stops short of only Meerut Law College. There are people here who were not even in the top 10 of their undergrad cohorts, whereas at Oxford exceeding the top 3 is a rarity. It is quite fun though--more time to party, and academic rigour is optional, that is, you can exercise the option of not working and getting the degree or working and getting nothing in particular to make you stand apart from your two-hundred-strong batch. At any rate, if you did not get into Oxford this year, chances are that you never will, so welcome to mediocrity at Cambridge!

Nalsar’26 here. Please stop jerking off to CID and doze off brother. Satiate your hunger for conspiracies by watching random “9/11 was an inside job” videos, there is ample information available explaining exactly how the accident happened. There’s nothing to speculate or coverup. Please get a life.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danneidle_pinsent-masons-catastrophic-reliance-on-activity-7463959312000913408-vuQ5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADbobP8BYXYimSxP3fuldWAbtZ_1ddV7Saw

Hope this helps.

I am from a minority group and attend an elite university. I can tell you, from my experience and those of loads of others whom I know who are minorities as well, that it is nowhere close to 95% reformed. Please do not spread ill-informed opinions as though they were gospal, because the only part of your statement which is correct is that the entire world was less inclusive at one point.

Some content creators make that in an hour, some engineers make that in a week. Ambani makes that in a second.

What's the point you are trying to make? Can we just live and try to earn a living without some douchebag comparing it to something else?

Why don't you go and join a PE fund?

The Indian Tier 1s are a bubble, and the math has never been honest. Roughly 700 lawyers per firm funnel into 150 to 200 PA slots, all waiting for partnership letters that will arrive for maybe one in fifteen of them. Firms over hire to handle deal flow that may not recur, then thin the pyramid quietly when it doesn’t. The deeper problem is what the structure produces. You spend a decade learning to service relationships you did not originate, on matters routed to you by partners whose business cards still carry the firm’s logo and not yours. You learn execution, which is real. You do not learn the thing that actually keeps a lawyer employed past forty: how to make a client pick up the phone and call you, specifically. Book building is a discipline, not a personality trait. It requires years in rooms where you have no standing, building peer relationships with people who are not yet GCs and not yet founders. It requires you to write things, lose things, and be visible in ways the firm hierarchy quietly punishes. The Tier 1 model was not built for this. It was built to extract maximum leverage from the pyramid while the going is good. Job security in this market is portable business. Everything else is the firm’s security, not yours. The senior associate with two captive clients of her own has more leverage than the salaried partner with none. The lateral market knows this. The pyramid does too, eventually.

Hello folks, I know a fact that time has significantly passed out for my batch talking about placements, but my resume is a solid mixture of various practice areas mostly in Tier 1's across bangalore along with a long term legal Internship at an Fintech.

Given the current scenario, if any of you have any idea of firms(T1s & T2s) in Bangalore looking for any Trainee or Assessment Intern, could you please name the firm and the team which is looking to hire for these roles. Given my multi practice exposure, I can easily be a good fit or atleast be taken to Interview stage and tested for my knowledge in the given area.

Please throw some light on firms still actively hiring for BO'26 from Bangalore?????!!!!!!!!

As a 2nd year law student from a private uni at Bangalore, you should first look for internships at chambers rather than directly jumping into law firms with gen corp or disputes practice. After one lit internship, target boutique law firms in gen corp, few firms like almt, md&t to start with and then scale up and mail other t2's and T1's in Bangalore. This would be the ideal way to have a strong resume by your final year.

But it's extremely difficult to get a PPO or job offer from their Calcutta office. The partners have high expectations and justifiably so, because the team is lean and the work is sophisticated. So if your aim is to get a PPO, it is recommended to intern in their Delhi, Mumbai or Bangalore offices where its rolled out quite easily.

Yes, ALL law firms shortlist candidates based on the batch rank. so yes your CGPA only matters, nothing else. Everything else is a point of discussion in the interview, but theres nothing a top 5 rank could not replace for a successful offer. So yes, keep grades super high and know to speak proper english and be super creepy to the interviewer

just completed my second year. done 3 separate tax internship, one with AOR at delhi hc, two adv, one from delhi hc, and one at bombay hc. i want to intern with a firm after classes to build more experience. i have completed my second year and will be moving to thrid year.

thanks :)

Hi, I'm currently a fourth year law student in a tier 2 university, I'm interested in research and policy. Litigation or corporate is something I would do only till I once again found a proper policy gig (meaning I have no serious commitments to it). Once I graduate I either want a fellowship or a place anywhere that has a solid policy dept and work for about 3-4 years before I try to go abroad for an LLM to convert that as a criteria to work policy there (most likely the U.K).

(please hold back on the LLM is useless talk, I don't want to be a solicitor or anything like that).

I don't have the credentials for Oxbridge/LSE kinds of universities but say something like Kings College London etc. I'm wondering if this plan is feasible ?. I require no loan of the sort to fund my studies so debt is not a concern, my main concern once I go would be doing everything humanely possible to not come back.

Though if I must, I've realised that policy firms do give preferential treatments to these degrees, so thats a plus for what its worth but one I'm not interested in until I'm absolutely forced to return.

I'm currently spending all my time building a writing portfolio to express interest and competence in my niche (tech law).

I'm here so that people from more experience and seniority, or if luck has it those who paved similar routes can advise me on the feasibility of such a plan.

Notwithstanding the visa, job shitshow that the global economy is coming to, I'm otherwise seeking an assessment if the plan I've laid out for the next 5-6 years makes sense for my specific ambitions.

If you made it till here, thank you :).