Here’s what many people don’t seem to grasp: a gradually weakening rupee does not automatically signal economic distress. In fact, it often strengthens India’s global competitiveness as an export hub—especially for services. Our IT, consulting, and back-office industries earn in dollars while paying costs in rupees. When the rupee softens, their margins quietly improve, remittance inflows rise, and export competitiveness increases.

Contrary to popular belief, the rupee is not fixed or “propped up” by the RBI at any arbitrary level. India follows a market-determined, managed-float regime. The exchange rate is discovered by demand and supply. The RBI steps in only to smooth excessive volatility, not to defend political vanity levels. This is precisely why India still has substantial foreign-exchange reserves—because it does not burn dollars trying to fight economic gravity.

Yes, a weaker rupee does make imports and foreign education more expensive in absolute rupee terms. That is the genuine middle-class pinch. But confusing nominal exchange rate value with national wealth is a basic economic error. Japan is the perfect example: the simplest purchases run into hundreds or thousands of yen, yet it remains one of the most advanced and productive economies on earth. The face value of a currency tells you nothing about real purchasing power, productivity, or institutional strength.

A falling rupee is not a headline problem. Uncontrolled volatility, structural deficits, and productivity collapse are. India currently faces none of those in a crisis sense. So the drama around every incremental depreciation is largely emotional, not economic.

I gave my CLAT PG 2025 this year but I don't think I will get good NLU. The thing is I have done my LLB from state university and it does not hold any value either. However, I have like 3 years of work experience but I was still not able to secure job in good firm. I was wondering if the tag will work. But anyway I do not think CLAT is bringing anything. So I was scrolling through this course and found it interesting but quite expensive, so I want to know whether it is worth it? If not what should be my approach please guide me

I am so sorry that you are going through this, but all I know is that sometimes the worst things happen to us to lead us somewhere better. Someone very close to me was let go and they were thinking that they should quit as the job was making them miserable. They were so hardworking and yet this happened, and somehow a series of events later, I haven't seen them this happy.

to be #1 in any sport requires the best of efforts, this is objectively true and you cant just rely on luck to reach there. all 3 people have worked really hard but Virat kohli is nothing in front of cr7 on a global scale in terms of fame or even monetarily. similarly sunil chetri is nothing in front of VK despite being the best indian footballer (idk much about indian football so dont come at me saying sunil isnt #1, he is on top somewhere for sure). #1 badminton player is nothing in front of sunil chetri and so on and so forth. why does cr7 mog every other athlete then? it's just luck guys. i think what u end up becoming isnt chosen by you, it is chosen for you! so dont feel itni mehnat karke kya hoga and lawyers ko to koi ni janta, sabko sabkuch ni milta bhai

What are the implications on law firm culture?

https://x.com/IndiaToday/status/1997217104009855273?t=2Yup27wVZWLamlrerh8NEA&s=19

> I’m a Tier-1 NLU student currently interning at a KCO. I have previous T1 experience (1 internship) in same practice area. My grades and batch rank are pretty bad, i would rank somewhere around the 60-70th percentile , but I still managed to secure this internship. I wanted to understand realistically, do firms consider academic performance heavily while deciding PPOs, or can strong work performance during the internship outweigh weaker grades?

Here's the final video on the wedding reception night. Great dancing and choreography. Mahua is a fantastic dancer and doing a better job than Kangana! Well done to all the girls, but especially MM! ❤️

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/watch-kangana-ranaut-mahua-moitra-and-supriya-sule-dance-together-at-wedding/articleshow/125813250.cms

For me, the highlight of the wedding was not Kangana, Mahua, Supriya and Rajiv Rudy dancing on stage. It was the four brothers dancing on stage with them: Ratan, Prithviraj, Sajjan and Naveen. Plus their wives and children. Even otherwise, they celebrate birthdays together, help each other in business and are very close. At JGLS, Naveen Jindal has renamed blocks after his family members. His brothers, sister in law, nephews and nieces keep visiting.

Contrast that with the Ambanis, Mafatlals, Lodhas, Kapurs etc. Even in the tiny world of law firms you have the Shroffs suing each other and even a much smaller firm like Fox Mandal, which has now split into 3 firms. 😂

So what's the secret? Why no bitter fights? Any tea?

yeah, it's a stupid publicity move to keep the senior faculty happy. The VC barely knows these profs and their abilities to handle the portfolios. The choice was arbitrary, without consider the faculties' individual merit for the portfolios allocated to them. There are better and hard-working faculties that deserve them more, and not like ones who throw around a show of knowledge and end up being the head of research.

At SLSP, atleast 30 folks are placed with another 10-15 PPOs in the pipeline for a batch where 200-250 odd kids actually wanted jobs. Do the math, its miles better than JGLS. From what a close friend of mine (who is in the SLSP'26 batch) told me - the batch rankers at Symbi have struggled to fetch jobs just like Jindal. This is again quite telling of the grading system flaws at both colleges.

Even if we take the last call hypothetical final placement figures for the predicted mean towards the end, the same stack up as follows:

SLSP - 50/250 (450 batch size); JGLS - 100/900 (1300 batch size).

The math is worse off at Jindal and slightly better for Symbi.

You are 💯 right. Ideology has zero place in our politics. It’s just 💰💰💰 that matters. That’s why it’s ridiculous that NLU-Jindal students take ideology so seriously and get into fights over it.

I know a T1 partner who is a big Modi bhakt and Adani cheerleader. Bro pretended to be a hardcore Marxist in college. He would maintain a rebel intellectual image to attract girls: long hair, kurta and jeans, JNU-style cloth bag containing books by Noam Chomsky etc. 😅…

It’s all for show, guys! Don’t take life so seriously!

Perhaps if it came from people from JGLS themselves, they might have inflated the numbers. But they aren't zero, for sure. There is one whom I can think of from the top of the head, probably others as well. Of course, even this guy has recently graduated from a PhD (Oxford DPhil), so this academic appointment is not permanent, by any chance.

https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/anirudh-belle#main-content

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirudhbelle/?originalSubdomain=uk

Also, there are ex-JGLS faculty who are teaching abroad now. I know of one person, though it is true his postgraduate degrees are also from abroad (that too, Yale).

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/items/bhat.html#main-content

NB: Don't know about JGLS alumni having academic appointments in India. Somebody else will have to answer if there are such people yet, or not.

Access to power. Top lawyers make ungodly amounts of money, but to earn the same you need connections and blessings of the powerful. You can never become a top lawyer by being aloof from powerful people. Even the top law firm MP's those who are diplomatic and apolitical also have to shower praises on the political establishment time to time.

And honestly the money you can make as a politician especially with the plum ministries, even a top senior's income would be a sham in that comparison and you need not go the Lok Sabha route only for that.

That photo of Naveen J dancing with Mahua, Kangana, and that erudite Maharashtrian MP in one frame gave me a proper laugh. It’s the political equivalent of throwing a brick through a glass partition marked “Left” and “Right.” Turns out, it was just one big green room all along. Most of our ideological drama is really just low-grade reality TV for the 🥭 junta—manufactured conflict, easy outrage, and absolutely no intellectual aftertaste.

I heard the NLSIU, just has a concentration based LLM course. The LLM students mostly have to take common courses like Consti and sit with students from other branches inculding public policy? Does the LLM specifically deal with Law and Technology? or is it just generic. However the tag of NLSIU does it hold higher value? How is NUJS's law technology course?

This is such a stupid question, showing total lack of thought and basic knowledge of jurisprudence. If you are from NLSIU, you either have skipped every single jurisprudence class that has been offered, or you have failed jurisprudence. You cannot be this functionally illiterate about jurisprudence if you seriously had attended NLSIU, you have Paul Craig's ex-supervisee, Sudhir Krishnaswamy, as your teacher. Please ask him to recommend readings of Pashukanis and Marxian legal theory on the one hand, and Carl Schmitt on the other. But first go and touch his feet, beg for forgiveness and acknowledge that you have, through your ignorance and arrogance, caused problems for your uni's reputation. You will understand, if you actually read the literature, the part law plays in autocracies. That's what you have him for, and that's his paygrade - far above mine, and far be it from me to even attempt to do his job for him.

Transparency is the hallmark of a public institution. If the position is being treated as an administrative assignment, it must be based on intelligible differentia (e.g., seniority, rotation, or specific academic output). In the absence of notified criteria, how is the selection justified? The new VC has been travelling on and off and has been in NUJS for a total of 15 days and does not know the faculty.

Typical NLU politics- violating the principles of natural justice.

This arbitrary decision-making and the creation of arbitrary hierarchies have set dangerous precedents in NUJS.

There is also no provision for 'Dean' in the NUJS Act.

I believe this specific wedding is I won't say lowkey but not media scrutinized. Heard somewhere that apparently the groom doesn't want media attention at all and even the Delhi social circuit isn't posting 1000 of insta stories like they usually do in comparison to other weddings.

And only selected guests are invited. I believe in the legal fraternity it would be all the top senior advocate crema like Rohatgi, Singhvi, Sibal and your usual law firm biggies like Shroff s, Khaitan's and probably even the likes of Mohit Saraf.

Let's not forget that he was at JLR for 21 years and saved Land Rover with his designs, a lot of which law firm partners and senior advocates waft about in. Unceremonious for him to be escorted out of office, but that's just the brutal nature of an ailing company under an Indian boss with a finance background.

Dear Boomer,

"Nice try fed" is a comment you may stumble across on fora and social media. It's a satirical, somewhat derisory remark and it implies that the original poster is a federal agent (hence the term "fed") or really, any authority figure, masquerading as a lowlife to gather intel. I'm telling you this because it seems that you could do with a little catching-up with Gen Z lingo.

Nice try Boomer.

had my trilegal interview, j a few tips:

they focus mainly on technical questions – basics of contract law, special contracts (SOGA, indemnity, etc.), company law. there's also questions based on cv. typical soft skill questions on interests and stuff too.

just a suggestion – stick to simple, one-line answers. the more technical you make it, the more room for the interviewer to cross-examine you.

We’ve had very well known Supreme Court cosy up to parties like the TMC, RJD, JMM etc and fight all their cases, just for an RS ticket. Why??? They have very successful practices and enough money. Why waste time sitting in Parliament for a salary that is 1% of your appearance fee, amidst rowdy politicians shouting like children?

Ignoring the bigotry and naivety. It's actually the reverse.

Focusing on corp law firms. Chinese firms dwarf Indian firms like it's not even a competition lmao.

Their headcounts are way bigger and their literally single firm revenues dwarf the entire Indian market.

Why do you think corp firms are lobbying so hard against liberalisation of the Indian legal market? They know they'll be eaten alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacheng_Law_Offices?wprov=sfla1

Just leaving this here.

Was 61 to the dollar when Sardarji was bowled out and Modiji took guard. Idiots thought that it will be a catastrophe with the currency reaching single figures. But with astute play, bold strokes and a strong partnership with Trumpji , Modiji is pushing the dollar to a hundred. Modi hai to mumkin hai.

Overall, the work culture is good. 5 days a week and people come in at 10-10:30 AM and leave latest by 7:30 PM.

EP Mr. Anand Nainawati and Mr. Jigar Shah are very good, helpful and approachable seniors. Other APs like Priyanka, Ishan, and Manish are also very good. Mid level can be a little toxic sometimes but nothing major. People are approachable, helpful and funny as well. Pay is also decent being in a low cost city like Ahmedabad.

The press is saying it's a very exclusive and curated guest list. Who's invited from JGLS, other than the VC? Among counsels, I'm guessing AM Singhvi, Sibal and Rohatgi attending? What about CJI and SC judges? And among law firm owners, Cyril, Shardul, Zia, Haigreve and Nishit Desai all going?

Also any other tea will appreciated. How much being spent, whether global celebs like Katy Perry or Bieber performing, Kim K attending etc.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/nutrition/opposition-by-day-celebration-partners-by-night-kangana-ranaut-s-dance-rehearsal-with-mahua-moitra-supriya-sule-triggers-mixed-online-reaction/ar-AA1RHKKL

I’m working in a Tier 3 - let’s say firm. Horrible horrible boss and horrible colleagues. Extremely rude and vile and will say the worst things to get work done. I have about 6 months of litigation experience. I really wanna quit. Would you guys know any firms in Bangalore hiring?

Delhi NCR

DPS RK PuramDPS Mathura Road

Sanskriti

Vasant Valley

Sardar Patel

Modern Barakhamba

Modern Vasant Vihar

DPS Faridabad

DPS sector 45 Gurgaon

They all have good number of alums as lawyers and judges.

Kolkata

La Martinere

St James

Mahadevi Birla

Singhania School

Mumbai

Cathedral

Jamnabai Narsi

Campion

Poddar

They all send good number of students to top law schools.

I am an A1 in a tier 1 firm private equity general corporate team and I would like to know how much can I realistically make as a in-house counsel over the years till retirement. In tier like mine a newly made partner gets something like 80L-1CR. Assuming you become partner at 33, you have about 30 years of partnership. It is a good chunk of money but obviously comes with a lot of pressure. Minimum you would be making 60-70 crore over all.

I want to switch to a high paying in-house like ITC. How much can I realistically make in ITC or other such companies if I move as at an A2, A3, SA level. Because I have heard home grown inhouse lawyers dont really make into GCs.

I like to live a minimalist life. All I want is that my kids don't have to struggle with competitive exams to get into good colleges and that they can pursue education abroad, something I couldn't and still cant. Other than that I don't see any point in having lot of money with this kind of life.