Since it’s been announced that Jindal‘s future expansion will be STEM-focused, I think the next VC will be a STEM fellow. Eventually, Jindal‘s medical, dentistry and engineering schools will be the golden goose, not the Law school. You can get 8L a year from a law student, but you can get 20L a year from a med student, because Indians will do anything to get a medicine degree.

So I think Raj will be phased out into a mentorship role. As for Dipika, she will be sidelined because her feminist focus is falling out of favour with the management: it’s ideologically inconvenient and doesn’t fetch jobs either. She does have s PhD as week. Re Sreejith, I seem him heading for VCship or Deanship somewhere else.

Any ryzen machine even as old as ryzen 4700u will last you 5 years. Been using a ryzen 4500 u I baught last year and it's been fun. I have multiple as many as 40 tabs open at once always. Don't game much so it has been amazing for me. Battery backup also around 8-10 hours on average brightness. You can use ms word and office without subscription model unlike in macs. Makes a difference imo but to you your own.

I got shortlisted too. Didn't think much when applying.

From what I have heard, coaching is not really needed.

They will check your "office like qualities" - which no coaching can help you with.

You can check the phases of SSB - and just give it a shot. The competition is crazy high though.

If you're okay with moving on to Apple OS, would definitely recommend a Macbook, however the entire MS office bundle and most applications which you get for free on windows is paid on MacOs not free. (Although you could pirate it by installing crack files like I did, but there's always a possibility that the crack gets removed in the next software update). Otherwise if you want to stay with windows, look for different models of ThinkPad. Great performance, Really good battery life, extremely rugged built and very light as well. You could even do a little bit of light gaming on the side if you're into that sort of thing. Nothing heavy tho, as it would hamper the battery life of the laptop. I would suggest to stay away from any of the Asus models as the battery life on Asus is extremely pathetic and the build quality in general sucks.

I agree with you that no calls for genocide are appropriate at universities. Talking about how Hindus built their temples atop destroyed Buddhist and Jaina temples , and this logic of “mandir wahin banayenge” would tear apart the country is not a call for genocide. No one here has attacked Jews or made the university less safe or advocates for overthrowing the Indian government. The people who do want to tear our polity apart with religion and have some new hindutva state - they’re traitors too.

If you cannot think critically about whether one thing is like another - if all you can do is draw false equivalencies and fight culture wars - you’re not demonstrating seriousness or even fealty and patriotism.

As a teenager with raging hormones who went to an all-boys school, I joined a leftist student group at Jindal as it was full of girls. I didn’t have any interest in Marx or Ambedkar, but I sat through the discussions. I found the people there very fake and superficial. They were just using trendy buzzwords to sound serious and intellectual. Not one person came across as a genuine leftist. Despite being non-left I did all the readings and came prepared, but hardly anyone else did the readings.

The conceptual clarity that the classes at Rahuls IAS can give you is beyond compare. Yes, it is a long course but the depths in which concepts are discussed (especially the toughest ones) is super helpful. There's much emphasis on the interpretation of statutes and methods of reading and applying law and legal writing. All of this makes it, imho, the best option.

All your corp experience will be entirely negated once you enter litigation, so keep that in mind. Doing corp is okay to build a corpus (however you won't be able to save a lot in 3-4 years, given living expenses) but be mentally prepared to slog and experience discomfort once you switch at an older age.

Last time, Kishore Datta assembled a committee consisting of:

- himself

- CJI Gogoi’s nominee Justice Mishra (neither judge caring anything about NUJS or legal education in general)

- an interim Cal HC CJ (a clueless and timid person who was in charge for just a month; Datta cleverly waited until the permanent CJ left)

- an unknown, small-time businessman who was a TMC spokesman at the time (he was removed after the SJA challenged his appointment as violative of the NUJS act)

This time, I fell Datta will wait for Chandrachud to retire (in November), because Chandrachud may cite Sudhir’s example and want an academically well-qualified VC. By November, Justice Bose will also have retired. So, you will Justice Khanna as CJI. He will probably nominate Justice Dipankar Datta to the selection committee. As for the other members, my bet would be Datta’s mentor Kalyan Banerjee (TMC MP) and maybe Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharjee or Justice Girish Gupta.

SCC/Manupatra etc shows you all the judgements whereas Google shows the judgements on which discussion has taken place so its easier to find judgements that have clarified or interpreted a provision of law on Google than SCC. However, if you are looking to do in depth research on a topic then SCC and other legal databases will come handy

OP here, to be clear, I still complete whatever assignments are given to me on time. It's just that now I have a habit of running the research questions through Google first where I find the answers like 8/10 times before I go to any legal database and I feel like this practice will not translate well in some other practice area where judgements are not reported frequently in other portals like Mondaq or livelaw.

There's a website called ssbcrack, I believe it also has a youtube channel. Go through it & you'll do well. Don't fake it, you'll get caught. Be your natural self & stay positive. That's it. SSB is very different from other personality based exams. So stay original. Either you have it or not. Don't sweat it !

There are some lesser known law firms which are closely connected with political parties and politicians. Some examples are:

- Jaitley & Bakshi (run by Arun Jaitley’s daughter Sonali) with BJP

- Legasis (run by Sushma Swaraj’s daughter Bansuri, who is currently a BJP spokesperson) with BJP

- PLR (run by Mahua Moitra’s former friend and election agent Suhan Mukherji) with Congress and TMC

- Aquilaw (run by Abhishek Banerjee’s right hand man Sanjay Basu) with TMC

But what about big players like CAM, SAM, KCO and AZB? Do they have close links with any political party? Will a Modi/Congress victory result in more work for any of them? Or are they neutral and do they have links with all parties?Darshan Hiranandani had named SAM in his affidavit in the cash-for-questions controversy, but is that just an aberration?

Horrible advice. This is the problem with people without the tag, you think it’s some knowledge competition with NLU kids. And you think success on some social media platform will compensate for you and make you a great lawyer. Make reels, seriously? And all you people want is status and power despite the limited ability. No higher goals in your life. This is the real problem with this country and its innumerable mediocre youth.

Oh bhai RML apne law bubble se bahar nikal jao.

First and foremost, India is surrounded by 2 great nuclear friends. One is a Superpower & other is a crazy power. Me personally, I think the crazy power is a bigger threat because slowly, it has lost its ability to reason. You can still somehow reason with the superpower, because it has bigger fish than us to fry.

Toh pehle toh apni jaan bacha le. Tell me who is USA or any European kid to tell us what should we do? Are they surrounded by 2 nuclear-powered arch enemies with live LOC and LAC? So, should their ideals be applied to our nascent independent nation? Shouldn't our military have top quality weapons too?

The Pak airforce has bloody F16s. Abhinandan fought with F16s. PM Modi said if we had Rafael at that time, result would have been different.

Do you understand the gravity of the situation? We are in a nuclear neighbourhood with 2 good enough militaries with top class weapons on our throats at all times. Unless we are prepared, we will be eliminated. So, all of our thought process has to have the defence component.

Most of our weapons are still imported. We have been building Arjuna tank for last 14y. Tejas is still not fully deployed. After 75+ y we still buy weapons from foreign nations, so much for our greatness.

The Modi govt. allowed the foreign companies to start manufacturing in India and sell to Indian military and create JVs. Shouldn't the UPA or Congress should have done it long ago? Like cycle manufacture Hero, which later created a JV with Honda to create Hero Honda, and later parted ways, our big firms would have learnt a great deal by now. But, the secular Congress & UPA did not allow this. Why? Kickback kam ho jate na.

Literally as an Indian Engineer before 2015, you could not have created a defence tech company an sold to Indian military. Why? Aren't any Indian capable enough? Because you wanted to promote some failed shit called Socialism? No. You wanted India to continue importing weapons so that you could earn kickbacks.

How does Israel comes in this picture? Israel has helped India militarily many times.

- Israel supplied India with armaments, ammunition, and intelligence during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and the Indo-Pakistani War of 19991.
- Israel was in middle of an arms shortage in 1971, but prime minister Golda Meir stepped in to divert arms meant for Iran to India. Israel gave India 160 mm Tempella mortars during the 1971 war2.
- As of 2022, India is Israel’s largest client for military equipment sales, and Israel is India’s second-largest supplier of military equipment after Russia. Approximately 42.1% of all Israeli arms exports are received by India1.
- Israel and India have also been engaged in defence technology cooperation. They have jointly developed the Barak 8 missile defence system and the Phalcon airborne early warning and control system3.
- Israel has also provided India with artillery guns, guided munitions, and mortar systems through a collaboration between Elbit Systems and Bharat Forge3
- Israel helped India during the Kargil War in 1999 by supplying mortars, ammunition, laser-guided missiles, and surveillance drones1.
- Israel became a major partner in the EU satellite program in 2021, which provides GPS capabilities for civilian and military purposes. Israel also agreed to share its satellite data with India, enhancing its navigation and security systems2.
- Israel and India have jointly developed the Hermes 900 drones, which are capable of carrying out reconnaissance and aerial bombardments

Jab agli baar aapki Army aur Air Force officers, ammunition aur missile ki emergency purchase karne bhaage bhaage Israel jae, toh yeh puchna, Is this the promised land? Why not buying weapons from secular states. Weapons are wrong. Peace is good.

Apna desh bacha lo. Phir Nehruji ki tarah morality pe gyan dena aur non alignment, non alignment chillana.

NKU is probably the richest competition lawyer in India. Clients trust her. She is a workaholic and gets the best results. She runs the game.

But other than that - working with her can give you heart attacks. She herself has no life/personal life outside the firm and makes everyone like her.

In what regards is she inspirational? Other than being an extreme workaholic and money minter. I don't even see any reason why she wants to make even more money lol.

Worse situation. I'm a A0 at a tier 1 firm. Everyday I close my laptop at 2-3 am and start again at 11 am in the morning. This has been happening since last 2-3 months continuously. Some weekends too are spent in work. Have gained weight and motivation for extra curriculars has been lost.

Trying to still hang in though

Hi guys, I applied for the Law Officer position in the Indian Navy, didn't think I'd be shortlisted for SSB but I did. I have no clue how to go about this and it's literally in about 15 days. I am panicking a lot. I want to give my best, so any guidance, or tips would be greatly appreciated. Should I take up coaching? Or can I self-study and crack this?? Please help me out.

They literally never gave slots and the new hr is sooo rude. I applied in September for January their slots were full. I applied am January for July the slots were again full. I applied for August in Jan itself they were also full. I mean how earlier to apply? I just gave up. I'll be in my 8th Semester if I apply further more in advance. Just give up it might be worth doing in the beginning of your third year not in the end of fourth year.

- Mukundan has given Newslaundry a clarification about what he actually said. He also said he has got death threats.

- Chief Proctor and RGNUL alum Karan Latayan identified by Newslaundry as a key figure. He has emailed students informing them that “doing politics” is banned and has banned the Safdar Hashmi Reading Circle and the Revolutionary Students League.

- Confirmed that students have held a protest on campus (completely blacked out by mainstream media)

https://www.newslaundry.com/amp/story/2024%2F02%2F16%2Fan-absolutely-apolitical-space-why-jindal-university-suspended-two-students-this-week

Hi, I can relate to this so much as someone suffering from mediocrity. This is how I cope. Everything has a price. I just chose to not pay the price for success. But I also had a carefree teenage and early adulthood. I have 9 hours of sleep. Being stressed about not being successful is like paying the price and forgetting to collect your goods. Anyway, you still can be impactful in ways the 'successful people' can't simply because they choose not to.

The comment below got unintentionally submitted.

Essentially, wanted to make a point that while people are infatuated with FIRE, the feeling of emptiness when they leave practice of law in a law firm (which creates massive dopamine and excitement and stress related brain liquids) - may be difficult for a lot of folks and not really what they want.

Also - most successful lawyers - because of thw attention given to law may not have great personal life.

This is very individual specific question.

What do you imagine doing with your time post FIRE? Generally, people only have vague ideas about it - travel, cafe, retire in hometown, stock markets, businesses, meeting friends, kids, etc. We are infatuated with a number of ideas. But this is infatuation. Like everything in life, one must try things to see if they actually love doing them.

I am a young person who comes from wealth / business family (I am comfortable). I genuinely love what I used to do in law.

Trauma creates great bonds!