Maybe it's not about quantity but quality. He's cited primarily for his 2009 book https://www.infosysprize.org/laureates/2022/sudhir-krishnaswamy.html#read-more

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Prof. Sudhir Krishnaswamy’s great achievement in his major book, Democracy and Constitutionalism in India (Oxford, 2009), is to elaborate the theoretical underpinnings, the legitimacy, and the unfolding significance of this doctrine, showing how it emerges by a very careful reading, not only of cases that have evolved in a nation’s legal history, but also by an interpretation of the debates in the constituent assembly, and indeed during the many deliberations during India’s freedom movement as it geared itself to acquire statehood.

Has anyone here actually read his book, or has a review or any details on whether it's a good scholarly work, because it might very well be sufficient to justify the prize. For what it's worth, it certainly has pretty good reviews on Amazon, especially for an academic book...

Another obvious angle is that the prize - not surprising, considering its Infy sponsors - also seems to be quite keen on Bangalore and Karnataka. From the citation:

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Krishnaswamy has been an important voice as a public intellectual, engaging in civil society debates and shaping and guiding legal policy, especially in Karnataka, where he has also been the founding member of the Alternative Law Forum and a founding trustee of the Centre for Law and Policy Research.

And part of the citation is clearly also for his roles in policy, and he would also be the second awardee with an Alternative Law Forum link, which is also founded in Bangalore.

Not really - they seem to adjust upwards only when they absolutely need to and one of the firms starts the process. Also, they're always very late to the show, a bit like the judicial salaries are lagging behind most years and only get adjusted upwards to competitive 7 years after they've turned into near-minimum wage again (though the more recent rises were quite good): https://www.legallyindia.com/the-bench-and-the-bar/judges-pay-is-so-last-century-20150707-6243

It's an option for the short term, but to be honest, it must be exhausting to do part time and still have energy left over at the end of it. Plus, many people you'll be working / gigging for are assholes: https://restofworld.org/2022/indias-gig-workers-religious-attacks/

It's actually also great publicity, both for the art galleries and the artists, is it not? If I was an up-and-coming artist or an up-and-coming gallery, I'd probably PAY some extinction rebellion types to throw soup on my art. And only a matter of time before galleries start a soup throwing pen for visitors to have fun defiling and then hosing down art behind a glass pane (glue not included).

That is definitely not true (at least not at all firms). However, it can take a bit of legwork and networking to change practice areas: you need to be able to tell a good story of why and also show why it would be valuable to the firm. And try to be positive, rather than just saying "I hate where I work right now", talk about 'passion' and demonstrate that you've done some research into the area you want to join.

People have been reporting this comment asking to unpublish it. Question is: no one has disputed the accuracy of the comment or given any reason other than that it shows the university in a bad light, so those are not sufficient reasons to unpublish a comment. Please clarify if we have misunderstood the situation.

You know you are playing into their hands by giving them exactly what they want for them and their cause: more publicity.

These campaigns are probably getting publicity in press coverage and outrage and debate worth the equivalent in billions of dollars of ad-spend and that would be impossible to achieve even when spending billions of dollars on PR.

Also have any of the paintings actually been damaged? Haven't they all been behind glass? From the Linked-to article:

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“Fortunately the (1915) work of art was not damaged. Nonetheless we are shocked that the Leopold Museum was in focus here,” the museum’s museological director, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, told a news conference.

Isn't the point that academia while claiming to be representative or researching discrimination and the like, both for women and for non-savarna castes, that it is still quite a bubble where the majority in senior positions are privileged and male? One Ambedkar does not change the reality on the ground nowadays.

No constructive response or even attempts at response or discussion received. Trolling case therefore confirmed and thread therefore closed for future contributions making similar points.

It would be so easy for trolls to continue softly trolling if they just made a bona fide attempt to explain their world view / bigotry and allow genuine discussion and criticism of their views, but it appears this is too much to wish for.

Bump? Blue tick has imploded, no?

In the meantime, here's a fun search query to find out if any lawyers / anyone you follow paid Elon:

https://twitter.com/DontStopTheFox/status/1592027109220024320

Thanks for sharing this press coverage.

From these reports, it appeas not at all clear that this was a religiously motivated attack. From HT:

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“On November 1, a few students of ICFAI Business School thrashed a student in the campus hostel room for his alleged comments against Prophet Mohammed. He was made to raise slogans of 'Jai Mata Di' and 'Allah Hu Akbar'," news agency ANI quoted Shankarpally station house officer, as saying.

The Hindu reports, similarly. Jai Mata Di seems to strongly imply that this was not about Muslim students vs a Hindu.

We are changing the headline of this post until facts have actually been established other allegations being thrown around about motives and other details.

That was responding to the subtext that the OP was making. But the reality is if this had happened in UP, for example, the students may have been lynched or beaten up by cops already purely on the allegation that it was a religiously-motivated attack by Muslims.

Also, is it actually established they were "Islamists" or this had anything to do with Islam? The Hindu reports:

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It was reported that the assault and ragging of the BBA-LLB first-year student at ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education at Dhonthanpally village of Shankarpally here, was over a message he reportedly shared with a female student on an Instagram chat. The assault took place after she allegedly shared the screenshot of the private conversation with some of her friends.

You are are deliberately misreading, and being trollish for insinuating so and for going into ad hominem. All acts of ragging at colleges are obviously horrifying, and especially horrifying are videos such as this one and other similarly cruel videos of humans inflicting violence on others, which regularly make the rounds on social and traditiona media nowadays.

1. Ours was a direct response to claiming the local government is NOT taking action, which was obviously trying to claim that governments only don't take action when Muslims are allegedly involved. This is clearly a lie and disingenuous. If you have contrary evidence, share it. If not, we're closing this thread and responses.

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If anything this is even more pathetic since most cow vigilantes are uneducated rural folk who lack general awareness

2. That is an interesting point. The point made about cow vigilantes was not about the individuals involved, but about how governments and political organisations (who are presumably more 'educated urban' folk), by your definition, have actievly encouraged and rewarded such vigilantism (or alternately stayed silent about it, thereby giving tacit encouragement).

As before, policy is: if you don't actually engage and respond constructively and politely to the above, this thread will be locked and closed.

It was explained and you chose to ignore it: the comment was trollish because the headline made a very specific false claim which was not supported by any of the reports, trying to bring in hate speech by the back door.

Now your post, however, is indeed trollish and hate speech (as was clearly the intent behind this thread, so shame on us for even publishing it or any responses).

The point is not that it was or was not Muslims that ragged and beat up a fellow student.

The point is that you literally ONLY posted this thread BECAUSE they were Muslims, and wouldn't have cared if it was Hindu students ragging others for not chanting Jai Shri Ram (and if it does come up, you would not call or equate them with fundamentalists, or dismiss / excuse them as 'fringe' elements, correct?).

In a similar vein to your facetious argument, you could demonise and generalise other communities and say "Gandhi did not kill himself but a Hindu did", "Indira Gandhi was murdered not by Christians but by Sikhs", "Rohingya did not get murdered by Muslims but by Buddhists", "US high school students do not get shot by wokes but by incels", or, since we're in ridiculous internet-hate-speech territory here, might as well include some references to Nazi Germany.

Some have stopped offering their services / servers in India (but you can still use their foreign servers while in India): https://nordvpn.com/blog/indian-servers-removal/

Maybe others are pulling back? Most likely a temporary technical issue though, or AVG servers being overloaded - blocking of VPNs by government seems unlikely, considering they already have a law in place against VPN companies.

Follow-up, explaining decision to mark post as trollish and disingenuous. From the article the poster linked to, action is clearly being taken: "A case was registered yesterday and acting on the victim’s complaint, the police have booked the accused for ragging under section 307, which is attempt to murder and IPC sections 323, 450 and 506 for criminal intimidation. The college administration have suspended the accused. The institute authorities are under fire for delay in taking action."

So, basically same as cow 'protection' vigilante lynchings in UP then (but without the murder or top-down organised political motives part)?

Stop trolling until more facts are available. And even though Hyderabad does not have a BJP government, if there's a case it's unlikely the police will sweep this under the carpet, unless the alleged accused are related to politicians or something...

Looks like the $8 experiment is over: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-quietly-drops-8-paid-verification-tricking-people-not-ok-musk-says/

Mod heads out to buy more🍿

I.e. you are surprised that as Uber has continued squeezing 'driver partner' margins (or doing a bait-and-switch to increase their profits), as driver's cost of fuel and other expenses have increased, that it's increasingly not lucrative for those with an education and any other job opportunities to drive Ubers, and those that do drive Ubers have to do so for long hours with access to sufficient sanitation or other facilities?

That's got nothing to do with being woke, that's just basic business dynamics...

Work aside, one positive thing about it is surely that you get to learn quite a bit about the various businesses involved, how the stock markets work, and get to interact with some fairly senior people in the companies, which is great for building client relationships?

Here's a related thread also: https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/220422-is-capital-markets-the-most-avoided-team-in-law-firms

Related thread with some info: https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/237397-naive-can-i-move-to-england-to-join-gf-after-a-few-years-working-here-in-law

The response itself wasn't trollish, but we were late in moderating, but the report of this post by the poster told the moderator to 'burn in hell' and do other things for not moderating it, so that does indicate the intent behind the post was clearly trollish, sorry. Maybe we should not even be publishing it...

Thanks for sharing the video, very interesting. He doesn't seem that batty after all and makes some valid points, and Rajdeep has moderated very well.

His statement that "India's intellectual class is anti-India" is a bit trollish, probably also on part of India Today, and mostly made to attract attention.

Some of his arguments that UP is less violent than Rwanda, Bihar is more democratic than the Democratic Republic of Congo fall a bit flat though, no?