Read 15 comments as:
Filter By
No, that's not at all how mentorship happens. That's your toxic and privileged interpretation.
Why don't you do the work first of showing them that it is worth their time? This entitlement will get you nowhere. They also have heavy admin loads and problems of their own. Ideally the institution should make space for them to mentor instead of overloading them.
You do realise that the path mentioned by you is also an individual initiative and not institutional. Moreover, several of those whom you named reserve their mentorship for people in their 'groups'. Enough said!
I agree. None of the academics in any university in India mentor. That's why the young academics are struggling to balance teaching and research. On top of that they're burdened with admin duties.
A 9-word comment posted 1 year ago was not published.
Who are you kidding, just mail MK, KK, PD, AK or Profs. SB, SR, MC, MS, PB and they will give you some time to meet them and discuss your research.
NLU Delhi by all means. Only yesterday, a 3rd year student won the gold medal for 27th Annual H.M. Seervai Essay Competition in Constitutional Law organized by NLSIU Bangalore.
Almost no mentoring happens here. Except for a rare few seniors who do so as individual initiatives. Nothing institutional. I speak as a former faculty.
NLSIU, if you can get in, would probably be the best. Lots of world class faculty to mentor you plus very theoretical orientation in general.
If my goal is to join academia, are corporate oriented NLUs the best place to go ? Especially since the fees is high ? Would a central university not be enough?