Here’s the correct answer. Arts degrees are useful of you want careers teaching the arts, journalism, publishing etc. Mostly low-paid work and limited openings. On the other hand, STEM and business degrees lead to more openings and more lucrative jobs.

Law can go in either direction — either like arts (for human rights and gender justice types) or like business (corporate law) and in a few niche cases like science (a handful of sophisticated tech law counsels in the West).

Not at 10PQE. Unless you come from a very strong law background. Heck, even if you come from a strong law background. There are several children of sitting SC judges/HC Chief Justices — who I am not going to name here for obvious reasons — who are 10PQE but no where near "outearning their law firm counterparts". Exceptions aside. In the longer run, say, 15-20PQE, yes. At 10? You're imagining.

This is so less. Anyone post 10PQE in litigation who is equally successful as the law firm counterpart would be outearning their law firm counterparts. Other than maybe financial reasons like loans/supporting parents, or for sheer love for the practice area, idts anyone should law firm, especially for the money. You'd earn far far far more in litigation, be much better known, have more avenues like senior designation and judgeship, AG, etc.

May he find now peace that he didn't get in this world. Unfortunately, this wouldn't be the last UD on campus. Be assured that this will be used to spur "developmental works" for student and academic welfare. Euphemism for traffic in IOUs via smokescreen called PWD and ilk duly processed through "committees" having grandees and student acolytes.

RIP and prayers to the parents.

Irrespective of whether this was an accident or self-inflicted, this is not the first time a student has died by a fall in the hostel. The message is clear:

- Make the railings in the veranda full-length vertically, so that no human body can slip through

- Improve the hostel facilities: A duty, overcrowded hostel breeds negative feelings. A clean, spacious hostel gives positive vibes. The current condition of the hostel is literally like a slum.

- Have more recreation facilities on campus to remove stress. Maybe you don’t have enough space for a football field, but you can make space for badminton, table tennis, snooker, board games etc.

- Finally, ban all mentally toxic influences on campus, especially dividing politics.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/19-year-old-nujs-boy-falls-off-6th-floor-at-hostel-dies/amp_articleshow/130245655.cms

https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/west-bengal/kolkata/nujs-boy-found-dead-near-hostel-first-year-student-from-kerala-fell-from-height-prnt/cid/2155974

IPAC is basically a BPO, handling outsourced political IT cell work like social media posts and videos. That and opinion polls on the ground. These are the two major verticals.

If the allegation pertains to a solitary transaction of 20 cr from Abhishek Banerjee, you can only imagine how much money IPAC must be making for this. They have been working for the TMC for 6 years and they also have the DMK and YSR Congress as clients. A few others too. Chandel is probably one of the wealthiest NLU grads around.

P.S. Yes, I left out the BJP, but as I understand it Prashant Kishor worked pro bono for Modi and Nitish Kumar in 2014. Following Modi’s win (which would have happened without him anyway) he got the media to portray him as a big genius and got other parties to sign him up for big bucks. That’s how IPAC was set up.

PK leaves apparently to fight Bihar elections. But he loses it horribly and a resounding rao from SC on a related matter. TMC owners publicly berated PK earlier although he helped them defeat BJP in 2021. And now IPAC is embroiled in all this. Murmurs were always underplayed. Doubtful that this investigation will be allowed to reach logical conclusion. But IPAC will get burnt.

The catalyst for the arrest is the leaked sting video that was released by the TMC a few days ago. The video showed Humayun Kabir of the new Muslim party AJUP claiming that the BJP is secretly backing him to split the Muslim votebank. It is widely believed that this sting operation was carried out by IPAC, so this is the BJP’s revenge: raking up an old corruption case that the ED has slept on for years.

Too little, too late: the sting operation has ensured that Muslims will not be voting for Humayun and the TMC’ s Muslim votebank is safe. According to the CSDS, the BJP received 50% of Hindu votes while the TMC received 75% of Muslim votes. That’s the underlying context to the arrest.

He was considered not just the pride of NLIU but the NLU community as a whole, for being such a pioneer. Today is thus a day of great embarrassment and shame for all of us. However, if he is innocent and being framed, then the whole NLU community must step up and support him. Let us see what happens.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ed-arrests-i-pac-director-vinesh-chandel-in-bengal-coal-case-101776100227458.html

Law is not like software engineering wherein top graduates can earn about 30-40 LPA right out of college while working around 50 hours a week. Law is, in fact, much more sophisticated to the extent that working 80 hours a week pays you either half of a software engineer's salary at the top level or literally peanuts and a cup of chai in litigation

MNLU-NISM LLM may help a bit if you want to be absolutely focused on securities laws and are looking for a job in the sector.

But for a general career in financial sector regulatory laws (involving banking, exchange control, securities, insurance, etc.) LLM from NLSIU may be a better choice (given the pedagogy and the limited options highlighted by OP).

Stay at NLUJ. ABS is not a certainty for you or anyone, coz it a stringent selection process; Indian Rhodes, as few says. Consider the consideration for being selected in it as a complimentary benefit, rest you'll certainly enjoy NLUJ, even more if you're into sports.

NUJS lacks infra, half the time people are busy with brownies (back in my uni time, when I participated in a competition there, they literally had brownie stalls), lacks discipline (not that you'll miss it at NLUJ, but not that much... Moderation is imp, which is not there in NUJS - unless you wish to be a junkie👀), and more so, until and unless you've option for NLS, NALSAR, NLUD, don't worry about other options, they're all the same, this is something I first understood after joining a firm back a few years ago, and since that have seen the systematic application of this idea by nearly all firms... NLUJ will get you placed, at least in India, at par with NUJS... So your call.. NLUJ will atleast have infra.

I've been allotted to nluj, and will be eligible for the aditya birla scholarship (as I fall within the top 20 of the merit list), however I also have the option (I'm assuming) to shift to nujs during the spot rounds after university starts (I will not be eligible for ABS at nujs)

Aditya birla is no easy task, but I deeply believe in my abilities and thoroughly understand their expectations. At the same time I wouldn't want to gamble a better college in pursuit of a pipe dream.

I'd appreciate insightful comments to help put me in place and understand the ground reality.

Can somenone pls provide a comprehensive review abt Hammurabi solomon and co anyone who have interned there in the last 2-3 months etc and was wanting to know abt team amazon within the firm if anyone else was aslo assigned the same team pls help in telling who is the team lead, work culture of the team, supportive or no etc

Thanks for pointing out that there are at least 4 alumni from the BA,LLB programme at NALSAR who are now part of the faculty there.

The rest of the comment seems to be a measured assessment of what NALSAR has lost in terms of attrition but it also hopeful about the situation improving over the next few years. However, since some of the comments are making a direct comparison with NLSIU, I recently came across a striking piece of information. Sidharth Chauhan has a post on LinkedIn which mentions 19 names of alumni from the BA,LLB programme who are now part of the faculty at NLSIU. Their names were mentioned in a post about the retirement of Dr. V.S. Elizabeth, a well-known Professor of History, who has taught all of them when they were undergraduate students. Surely, the presence of a sizeable number of BA,LLB alums (out of the current faculty strength of 110+) must have pushed up the standards of teaching at NLSIU. This is sufficient evidence to show that NLSIU has in fact pulled far ahead of its competitors in recent years. You may or may not like Sudhir's personal demeanour, but there is no doubt that he has delivered spectacularly well when it comes to faculty recruitments. Even his worst critics on this forum will be hard pressed to deny the positive implications of 19 well-qualified alums devoting themselves to their alma mater.

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