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The air in Trilegal's cafetaria is oppressive. It's quite silent. People are gulping (not chewing) the food. Expression on their face is suicidal.
In Khaitan's cafetaria, I felt lively. Someone is discussing cricket or football. Someone is trying to entertain the entire table by cracking jokes. There is a heated discussion on an interpretation on another table.
Overall, if you are a disciplined person who can put in about 9 to 10 hour of work everyday you will be fine. Also, develop a thick skin. Sometimes people (seniors) will shout at you for no fault of yours. It has nothing to do with you. Let it go.
Do yoga and meditation to manage stress. Do not smoke/ drink. Have close friends and a good relationship with family members. It's just a job that pays decent.
2. PE-VC
3. B&F/Projects
4. Private Credit
@kianganz, the comment structure is confusing! I don't know which comment is a reply to some other comment or if it is a comment on the main topic. I think numbering/indexing of the comments will be nice! Also, maybe increase the width of these comment boxes?
I have seen T1 partners running around delhi trying to find a decent school that'll give nursery admission to their kid while IAS officers get a red carpet to elite schools like sanskriti, sardar patel, dps rkp..
From the left:
Prashant Bhushan (among boomers), Karuna Nundy, Nitin Meshram and Sanjoy Ghose (among Gen X), Gautam Bhatia and Apar Gupta (among Gen Y) and Rohin Bhat (among Gen Z).
From the right
Mahesh Jethmalani (among boomers), J Sai Deepak, Sanya Talwar and Ramanuj Mukherjee (among Gen Y), Aishwarya Mudgil and Zeba Zoariah (among Gen Z)
I once dropped her home on my scotty since we were both in the same college. She insisted that she drive and i ride shotgun, so I agreed. On one stretch of patchy road she bumped the scooty too hard and accidently my hand touched her b***. It took me a moment to realize where my hand was when as said "where are u touching me", and I immediately pulled it back. It is accidental of course.
Next day i was called up by my manager stating that she had received a complaint from the girl told me that she wouldn't be escalating the matter since she knows I must not have have done it intentionally.
Wierd ......
The point being, people at GNLU have read from Darshan’s notes on various subjects over the years even before he was a Graduate ( Jewels and gold ornaments ) but these same people don’t come to receive him and listen to him at his talk show when he visited GNLU (correlates with the later part of the above-mentioned para).
Whats the tea, secrets you know!? or is there something you wanna get off your chest!? Any messed up affair, some huge fight drama, any hot memory. We are all ears to listen. Some
Pls 👀👀👀👀
I know there are many on this website who can answer this. Please help a clueless second year law student who has heard many horror stories.
What are you expected to do?
Usual working hours?
How many days are you expected to stay in the office post midnight?
Are there any holidays at all?
What is your usual sunday like?
Thank you!
The Bengali version of Karan Johar (the looks, the glasses, the humor, the socks?, YES THE SOCKS), can be ▮▮▮ has pretensions of being extremely superior His humour is to get a hapless target and then portray him as useless. Not really ▮▮▮!! ▮▮▮.
▮▮▮ He should let one take his independent work, as Mr. Rajiv Agarwal, who groomed him, never stopped him from doing so.
1. If you belong to the reserved category:
a) Prepare for UPSC, BSF, state civil service, state judicial service and other govt exams.
b) Prepare for CAT and target IIMs and IITs.
c) Prepare for LLM CAT and try for PSUs which accept LLM CAT scores or join an NLU and do your LLM/PhD from there and join academia.
2. If you belong to the general category:
a) Prepare for CAT and target private colleges such as ISB, SP Jain, MICA and FORE.
Source: https://www.barandbench.com/news/unacceptable-undesirable-nlu-jodhpur-teachers-contractual-basis-supreme-court
Plus the opportunity cost to do the MBA and the student loan repayment. Even on scholarship you'd have to loan out a considerable amount, unless you're some unreal scholarly guy with a good history of business/investment that even harvard would like to have, which most people won't be.
so no, don't do mba either if you want to get wealthy.
I also believe you're talking about only MBAs from abroad here and not iim which doesn't make sense for someone who has a t1 job lined up.
and I'm also talking about USA jobs only since it pays the best.
SP
Yeah bud, we believe you.
As a recently made partner in a 'T1', 100% agree with the people interviewed.
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.
- John Davis
Thanks in advance!
This is the very purpose of platforms like LI which democratize the structure and make sure that checks and balances exist on firms. Vaish should apologize to its lawyers instead of attacking them in a petty manner.
What’s wrong in using all illicit tactics to get rid of your notice period by start abusing your seniors in said glorified resignation?
What’s wrong in becoming stooge of said partner and leaking only selected communication (read glorified resignation) and concealing all subsequent apologies by the younger generation A0?
What’s wrong in demeaning the profession and a very respected work place only for your personal short term gains?
What’s wrong in sensationalism and wasting time of several other youngsters and stooping this low?
Where will this lead our youngsters to ? Even I am one and have this question ?
https://youtu.be/BWkXVnZKz3c?si=hnXPGb_jHQkMWTtr&t=4374
Also, may read https://theprint.in/opinion/india-calling-itself-bharat-fulfills-pakistans-age-old-wish/1752232/
Good for JGLS that the parents can pay 10LPA fees for 5 years (plus another 10 LPA pocket money to live the Jindal lifestyle), then after 5 years you can get hired by JGLS as a 'Research Associate" (Successful placement!) for a year while you run around study abroad consultants who'll craft the perfect vanilla oxbridge LLM application. No doubt that the classic JGLS inflated grades will make it stand out to adcoms!
Considering all that, the fact that 5% of JGLS batch manages to get half-decent jobs is truly commendable!
@kian please post it, would be very helpful for me thank you
A totally lame list of Bills. Even the Advocate's Bill doesn't cover liberalisation but removal of touts from court premises. Below are some tweets on this from the opposition and influencers.
So what's the real agenda? Uniform Civil Code? Or is this it? Then WTF call a special session for this shit?
Jairam Ramesh:" The agenda as published at the moment, is much ado about nothing — all this could have waited till Winter session in November. I am sure the legislative grenades are being kept up their sleeves to be unleashed at the last moment as usual. Parde ke peeche kuch aur hai!"
https://twitter.com/Jairam_Ramesh/status/1701991316794843486
Sumanth Raman: "There is some other agenda. A special session for the business listed here is absurd."
https://twitter.com/sumanthraman/status/1701996213334413467
Arvind Gunasekar: "not to be taken as exhaustive"
https://twitter.com/arvindgunasekar/status/1701987012671369382
These tier 2 college kids need to know that one need not wash their dirty linen in public. Learn something from NLUD and NLS.
2. Please tell us what it has achieved, exactly. It is not producing any student who has achieved more than other students from the NLUs have done (at a fraction of the cost). It is not producing any research project (like NLUD or others) despite having tons of resources at its disposal. It is not producing any good bunch of young faculties for law schools in India.
3. Top law school in terms of number of students and fees charged, sure. In what way other than that?
4. What education opportunity does it provide that others do not, exactly? As for exchange programmes and LLMs, anybody who can afford those from the top NLUs can avail of those. Nor are the JGLS students winning any scholarships that students from those places aren't winning either.
5. Superior education? Lol! In what way? Take any average JGLS student and one from the NLUs, you won't find the former doing any better. So which way is the education that they have received superior? Sure they paid more for it, but that's all.
6. Has to be highest admission, they have more than 300% of the student strength of any NLU. How many of those admissions were with scholarship? Hardly a handful. Almost anyone who can afford a foreign LLM can get one these days. That proves nothing.
7. Once again, those places are easily accessible to people who can pay for those. And what value addition has such exposure done to the students? They don't get extra jobs, don't litigate better, don't produce better research and don't win more competitions than the NLU students.
8. Yeah, they produce more papers because they are more in number. Their faculty numbers more than 10 NLUs combined. The same stats also revealed that the number of publications per faculty was less than 1. Despite their faculty getting so much greater salary, perks, incentives and reduced teaching workload. So, not greater scholarship in terms of research output, no. Half of their faculty has zero to little experience when it comes to teaching and deal in grade inflation to keep students happy.
All in all, very bad ROI for an institution that's been doing this for over a decade.
I rarely visit LI but everytime the same rants against Jindal Global Law School by NLU students/ alumni. Fail to understand why?
JGLS has its own set of problems like every other Univ or law school has. But how can you deny what it has achieved in a short span of time
JGLS in a little over 10 years became India's top law school beating vast majority of NLUs and almost all private law schools of the country.
Tell me any law school barring NLSIU, NALSAR and NLU Delhi which can provide educational opportunities and exposure comparable to Jindal Global Law School in India?
JGLS offers arguably a superior education, exposure and facilities vis-a-vis any other law school in India including all the NLUs.
JGLS graduates in 2023 secured highest admissions from India in world's top 50 law schools including Oxford, Cambridge, KCL, UCL, LSE, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, NYU, Fletcher etc.
JGLS sends approx 200 students every year for study abroad programs including Semester Exchange, Dual Degree & Summer/ Winter Schools, which no Indian law school can even think of.
JGLS students and faculty publish more scholarly papers than any other Indian law school. Actually as per Elsevier's data of Scopus indexed journal articles in law published in academic year 2022-23 by Indian Law School Faculty, Jindal faculty publishes double of what all 25 NLU faculty publish collectively.
What makes you to predict this 'Death knell'? JGLS is bound to grow beyond your imagination.
Remember Raj is not just a Vice Chancellor. He is the founder of the University (of course Mr. Jindal paid the money but the idea to execution, all done meticulously by Raj.
Nobody mentioned above can even remotely match the personality, passion or hardwork of Prof. Raj Kumar.
Raj is absolutely young and full of energy. Not even hit 50. Next 10 years he must remain JGU VC.
They form a different caste in Hindu society