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Addressing Critical Concerns Regarding NALSAR's Administration
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'NalsarResilience' via StudentBody <studentbody@nalsar.ac.in> Sun, 9 Jun, 2024 at 7:31 pm
Reply to: NalsarResilience <nalsarresilience@proton.me>
To: studentbody@nalsar.ac.in <studentbody@nalsar.ac.in>, vc@nalsar.ac.in <vc@nalsar.ac.in>, registrar@nalsar.ac.in
<registrar@nalsar.ac.in>, nalsar-teachers-@googlegroups.com <nalsar-teachers-@googlegroups.com>
Prof. Rao,
We trust this email conveys the gravity of our concerns. Your administration has, regrettably, earned a reputation
for silence, lack of accountability, and inaction. We have refrained from writing this for a long time, hoping for
positive changes or decisions from your end. However, we now write with utter dismay over the sheer lack of
prudence from your side.
To the Vice-Chancellor and the administration at the helm: You have successfully steered the college towards
obscurity. We have had esteemed vice-chancellors, registrars, and some of the brightest scholars in the country,
building and maintaining the 'NALSAR' brand. Thank you for demonstrating that with an administration as
thoughtless as yours, even the NALSAR brand cannot retain, let alone attract, quality.
Currently, we have only four active professors. Among them, Prof. Rao and the Registrar do not teach a single
mandatory course. One is Prof. Balakista Reddy, who is on lien, leaving only Prof. Vasanthi actively teaching. We
have fewer than five associate professors who are overdue for promotions and are overworked. The recruitment
process conducted last year was deficient, as professors essential for mandatory courses were not recruited, and
student feedback was not considered.
Despite promises of faculty recruitment, you have failed seismically at retaining faculty and institute builders.
NALSAR has lost more than ten professors, including renowned ones, due to your aimless administration
.Whenever the topic of recruitment arises, you proudly declare the recruitment of two experienced Telugu
professors who served as vice-chancellors at other NLUs. They seem to treat NALSAR as their retirement home,
teaching fewer than ten hours per semester.
Regarding faculty allocation, why are professors specializing in criminal justice and international law teaching
family law? Professors specializing in constitutional law are teaching labor law, and those specializing in taxation
and international trade law are teaching evidence, contracts, and property law. Professors specializing in civil
procedure and legal methods are not allotted their subjects.
Why was Professor Ashwini not assigned to teach CPC? Both teachers who instructed the DPC Clinic have been
reassigned to teach CPC. Hasn't Professor Kannan expressed his displeasure at having to teach two mandatory
courses in one semester at his age? We do not have any details regarding those giving demo classes for
Constitutional Law tomorrow. Meanwhile, other national law schools have well-known professors who have been
poached from our college. Is there any rationale behind these allocations? Fourth and third years have been allotted
a single professor to teach subjects like ethics, evidence and constitutional law for batches exceeding 150 students.
Your tenure, now nearing its two-year mark, has little to show except for the valiant attempts to cover up public
humiliations such as workers' exploitation, the girls' protest incident, and the faculty gate. Your actions and
inactions have consistently exacerbated each situation. During the latter incident, you failed to meet with Prof.
Manohar, necessitating the proctorial board to take suo motu action. This clearly illustrates your inability to
effectively address either student concerns or faculty issues. Your regime is marked by the mistreatment of faculty,
students, and the workers who sustain this institution. Faculty are denied basic respect, agency, recognition, and
promotions, while student considerations, even pertinent ones, are swiftly dismissed. Workers and non-teaching
staff are denied basic human dignity. On how many accounts does this denote failure? Your actions and inactions
have only worsened each situation.
The Registrar excels in whataboutery, causing nothing but problems for the student body. Everything is blamed on
the student body. The Student Bar Council must beg for any action or permission, often rejected or denied without
rationale, except spite. Instead, we are subjected to sermons on student conduct and lack of achievements. Is the
Registrar so occupied with her sermons that she cannot teach a single mandatory course? How can anyone thrive in
an environment with zero institutional support? Every reimbursement is blocked, and even reasonable
expenditures to address student concerns, such as the monkey problem, are deflected. Student intake has increased, random courses like the IBL program are started without gauging campus space
organization, yet scholarship amounts steadily decrease every academic year. Where is this money being funneled
if we lack funds for scholarships? Is it being misappropriated or funding the IPR conference that happens every
week? The academic regulations stipulate an annual fee increase of ₹5,000, yet it was increased by ₹10,000 this year.
On what basis? The services remain haphazard and subpar.
Numerous safety concerns have surfaced, with no action from you. There are also several other opaque and
imprudent decisions you have made. Promises of hostel construction and a new campus are constantly thrown
around, but we see no progress. You have failed to procure land and refuse to address the space crunch our college
suffers from. You have been abysmal in securing anything from both the past and current governments. Your
greatest achievement is securing a meager ₹75 lakhs to open a research center, triumphantly publicized. How
does this fare against NLSIU, where Sudhir secured ₹45 crores and ₹12 crores from JSW Group and Luthra for
renaming two of their academic blocks?
We eagerly await your response (if any) to these pressing issues, which we doubt you will address. Your collective
indifference and apathy have only simmered discontent among us. If there is no change in your approach or if we
do not receive satisfactory responses to these issues, we will not hesitate to stage a protest when the first-year
admits and their parents, especially your favorites—the parents of foreign nationals—visit the campus on joining
day.
No Regards.
Bruh, just throw them a banana and they’ll go away, else call a professional monkey trapper who’ll take all of them away. What a big fuss y’all are making 😒
Why don't you ask this to your Animal Law Professor and your mad seniors who wouldn't let the admin capture these monkeys?
This new vc is an embarrassment to my alma mater and he is destroying nalsar's brand value. Faizan Mustafa is sorely missed.
Prof. Rao,
The anonymity here stems from a lack of response from the administration and the understandable fear of reprisal for exercising freedom of speech. We arrived at NALSAR with high hopes, drawn by the esteemed 'NALSAR' brand. We anticipated exceptional professors, and while there are indeed some outstanding ones, it's disheartening to witness the departure of many esteemed faculty members.
Our initial enthusiasm soon gave way to disappointment as we faced the reality that some core law subjects, such as contract law and family law, were being taught by professors specializing in criminal law. This not only creates discrepancies in our learning opportunities but also undermines NALSAR's reputation and our future prospects. We aren't demanding extraordinary quality; rather, we seek the basic standard of being taught by professors specializing in their respective subjects, with transparent appointment processes.
This situation is unjust not only to us but also to the professors themselves, as evidenced by their evident disappointment, as reflected in recent communications. As we contemplate the remainder of our four years here and consider the welfare of future batches, it's concerning to witness our senior peers already apprehensive about their upcoming years due to the departure of esteemed faculty members.
Moreover, the decision to conduct today’s demo classes online, when the university is set to reopen in a week, seems perplexing. Offline classes could potentially attract more participants, yet this opportunity appears overlooked.
In light of these concerns, we, as students, express our disappointment and urge the administration to respond. We advocate for being taught by subject-specialist professors appointed transparently, with student feedback mechanisms in place to ensure quality education and accountability.
Sincerely.
Why just NLUD? Why not check his record at NLUO? I remember Legally India doing a story of how SKDR did a cut-paste job at NLUO for the NAAC accreditation.
Have a plan B. If you are successful in evicting SKDR be ready for a clone or worse whatever the dressing - NLU/TLC alumni. Although almost all NLUs practically run on student fees, we are unlikely to be given a meaningful say in who actually gets appointed as VC and the everyday administration of univ, including faculty recruitment, which is basically a traffic of IoUs, favours and other "exchanges".
In recent years, VC evictions were successful only (I am specifically not getting into their replacements) when the VCs committed harakiri and/or students were able to access damning info that made the VC political and/or judicial liability.
Examples:
1. CNLU Patna - Students had enough of their evergreen VC. But he sought to preserve his influence and corrupt practices through a proxy. But PIB had become liability and CNLU students created enough noise for the political-judicial establishment to drop him. Ofc the "Empire" struck back.
2. WBNUJS - Although the TMC/state govt is the fav punching bag, PIB survived and thrived due to support from a powerful section of judiciary. These folks are apolitical in the sense that they are valued by all the rival politicos. But that's another story. Point is that the SJA despite damning inquiry reports could not stop EC from giving PIB an unanimous second term in 2016. But in 2018, the SJA had understood the game. The political-judicial establishment always needs a good driver for the gravy train. But when the gravy train faces real danger of derailment, the driver is expendable. Ofc, the SJA in 2019-20 lost the plot and therefore suffering the consequences.
3. NLIU and HNLU - Both had it coming for a long time. Students finally came together and cashed in on the harakiri committed by the VCs who had grown complacent.
4. RGNUL - Students were able to pile pressure but the crafty PJ found crucial support in your dear FM (then) and an extremely accommodating judiciary. PJ was stirred but not shaken. PJ knew his time was up, made a move to Sonipat and Tau had students for lunch subsequently.
5. NLU Assam - Teachers and students wanted VK gone but they had to wait till Tau made arrangements in MNLU Nagpur. But another VC (from Karnataka and a bhakt) lost his grip only after he "allegedly" flashed repeatedly leading to some sort of police complaint (which ended somewhere in a landfill) and the VC was given time and opportunity to resign and enjoy terminal benefits.
You should also consider the recent examples of failed "uprisings" in MNLU Nagpur, NLU Ranchi (even the earlier protests), NLUO (when the VC is a dear friend of well-respected CJ), NLU Vizag, HPNLU, NLUJ et al.
Lastly, do not get voluntarily hijacked and self-invite a smack down like SJA of WBNUJS.
Thanks for the summary.
KDR has to rein on the incompetent old faculty involved in political mastery creating toxic environment for young faculty and preventing promotion of new and competent ones. He has to recruit steadily but must maintain the quality and involve good internal faculty in administrative decisions like senior Prof. Dhandha, Prof. Kannan, Prof. Murali, among others. He relies on his old chaps who doesn't care about the institutional growth. To attract good faculty at par with how Sudhir in NLSIU is recruiting he also has to build infrastructure, but he failed. He can't even re-build/renovate the library which has cramped space, let alone building new hostels, recreational area.
NALSAR has lost its glory that it achieved since it's inception till Prof. Mustafa's tenure. KDR will keep entertaining judges (seemingly those who are in line to be CJI), to keep gaining judicial patronage, that's the best he is doing till now. Hats off to his own junior, Sudhir Krishnaswamy, who re-built NLSIU with the best faculty.
Monkeys and not as harmful as dogs, because they just want food. They don’t want to attack you. But dogs randomly attack people.
In the mess hall, it's a similar story. The menu is packed with non-vegetarian options like goat, lamb, chicken, and fish almost every day of the week. This heavy presence of meat doesn't seem to bother the same students who are vocally against animal cruelty in other contexts.
This selective activism seems to be a reflection of the dominant woke liberal ideology at NALSAR. While this ideology promotes social justice and equality, it often comes with its own set of contradictions, especially regarding animal rights. The selective compassion these students show likely mirrors broader societal tendencies to prioritize certain issues based on cultural and ideological leanings.
Personally, I find this kind of selective animal welfare activism pretty troubling. I believe all animals deserve the same level of care and respect, whether they're dogs, cats, or any other creature. The selective empathy on display at NALSAR highlights a bigger problem within modern activist movements: the tendency to let cultural and ideological biases dictate which causes to champion, rather than adopting a consistent, universal approach to treating all animals ethically. The real challenge is to encourage a more comprehensive and inclusive view of animal rights, one that goes beyond these selective concerns and embraces compassion for all animals equally.