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But in a nutshell, the intent behind moderation is reflected in the placeholder text before you leave a comment, which (vague though they admittedly are) we try to use as the fundamental basis for (admittedly imperfect) moderation decisions:
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It might be a bit like comparing computer lab & equipment spending at NIT vs an NLU?
The tl;dr from that suggests it takes between 9 and 13 years to make EP on average (though it excludes the many many who never make EP or leave the profession or firms before they do). It also does not explicitly take account of equity partnerships at all firms (and is a bit outdated).
As far as we understand, being an equity partner (besides the promoter equity) at most firms doesn't necessarily translate into a huge bump up in pay, though it can. It would very much depend on the exact equity model (or even non-equity revenue share model) that a firm follows, and potentially also how much your own team makes, etc.
In moderation, we tend to currently allow use of 'bhakt' if used in a descriptive sense, but if it's accompanied by clear intent to abuse or troll or incite a flamewar, then it would tend to fall into the trollish camp. Likewise, RaGa fanboy or Congress worshipper would probably be fine in isolation but if it becomes ad hominem in intent, it would be trollish.
Happy to take some feedback on this.
"I have never done a single work video call during the pandemic while secretly not wearing pants."
(Please upvote this post if you have)
Please keep it civil, at the end of the day, everyone will have a different approach, capacities and priorities in how they approach their legal careers, and some might succeed and achieve what they're looking for or find careers that fulfil them.
Suffice it to say, to aid the general discussion, the shared LinkedIn link was of a law student with voluminous CV of work experience, internships, positions, honours and publications. And without digging too deeply, the list of 50+ publications does seem to look like it's with real publications and potentially legit.
In short, purely by the quantity it is impressive and one does wonder how there are enough hours in the day. Then again, some people barely sleep and have boundless energy, drive and purpose, and it certainly does not seem impossible.
But more importantly, don't try to measure your own worth against others - do what you like to do, explore the career options you find interesting, push yourself out of your comfort zone to write articles and do internships and volunteer and other positions that you think are valuable, and a career and job will find you sooner or later. Even without 50+ publications, guaranteed!
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Debating the merits and demerits of reservations should be absolutely fine in the LI comments section, but considering this is a sensitive issue, please keep to facts and actual arguments rather than prejudices, half-truth opinions or provocations...
However, proceeding on a good faith basis, please provide some constructive thought or suggestions for alternatives, rather than just saying all reservations should be banned (quoting Nehru does not count as an argument).
Do you accept there are still caste- and background-based inequalities in society. If so, do you agree it is incumbent for the government and laws to address these?
If so, and if reservations are not the answer, what would be an alternative? For instance, could a purely means-tested system work in India to replace reservations? And do you think it would even be politically possible to remove reservations (even if replacing it with something better / as good)?
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1. Get comfortable at (or lose your fear of) Excel / Google Sheets / LibreOffice Calc, etc. It will pay dividends down the road and you can achieve some surprising things with it, besides just making graphs. There are lots of tutorials online, but there will be times that you can save hours using simple numerical operations instead of using a pocket calculator (enter something into a cell like "=A1+A2+A3" or "=SUM(A1:A3)") or so-called string concatenation (enter into a cell: "=A1 & ' will be combined with ' & A2" and it will combine the text of those two cells, and you can even automate things with simple logic to give you different output).
2. Get comfortable with Google or other search engines, especially using advanced commands like "site:legallyindia.com insertsearchqueryxyz" or "filetype:pdf". A very useful blog was written on this on LI before:
https://www.legallyindia.com/views/entry/researching-without-legal-database-the-alternate-google
3. A little more advanced perhaps (and probably will not be allowed on Citrix or other locked down work systems) there is a software for Windows called AutoHotkey, which at the simple end can save you a lot of typing. You can for instance define it to type "agreement" whenever you type "agt" or other similar contractions that you use frequently (there are also some specialist "text expansion" tools that might be even easier). Once you get more into Autohotkey, you can program simple macros that will repeat certain repetitive actions over and over again (there are other macro recording programmes also that can do this).
4. When working with PDFs and fed up with how slow Adobe PDF reader is, do consider installing SumatraPDF as an alternative. It starts up super fast, can view most PDF files and generally doesn't have all the Adobe bloat (but beware, it does not deal so well with fancy interactive PDFs that contain embedded other documents, forms, etc, but for those you can use Adobe).
5. This software (or other launchers like it) are very useful and can save a lot of time in the long run, letting you do quick Google searches from any other programme with a hotkey for instance: http://www.launchy.net/ If you customise it a bit (which isn't too hard), you can even set it up so you can launch searches or commands on many different sites you often use or search with just a button press or two, plus do other things like instantly do calculations, work with your clipboard, etc.
6. Not so much software, but a lot of people swear by buying a second monitor for research or any work and productivity. That way you can have a word document open on one screen, while you have a PDF and some research database on the second screen, so you can just glance between your notes and research screen easily. If you can't afford / don't have space / don't want a second screen, another small tip along this line (which some people might not know) is to tile your windows. On Windows it can be done by dragging your word document window by the title bar all the way to the left of the screen, at which point it will resize to take up the left half the screen. Then select a second window (like a browser window or PDF or research to the right of the screen). If your computer screen is big enough / your eyesight is good enough, you can then view / work on two documents at once.
7. If you are a newbie, try learn to use keyboard hotkeys in all your software. In windows that includes using the windows key to open the start menu, and you can type the name of programmes and open them up (if Cortana doesn't get in the way), rather than hunting for their icons, or even pressing Win+E to open Explorer, etc. In Word, you will no doubt know Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I etc, but you might not know that nearly all commands have keyboard hotkeys (which are listed in the menus) and can also be customised from the settings. So if you use Align-Right or Justify often, learn the Ctrl+R or Ctrl+J hotkeys, for example by using them often (or writing them on a cheat sheet as you learn new ones). Over years, it'll save you years of your life spent clicking things :)
Not sure if any of these are useful or too basic / not relevant? If they are or anyone would like any more information or has similar tips, please pipe up below.
The "agree" part of our earlier comment was only in respect to us requiring an overhaul of our privacy policy - we do have one but it's a little out of date: https://www.legallyindia.com/non-editorial/privacy-policy-20090318-015
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But claiming a 'deplatforming' of people like Sadhguru, government supporters or a state governor seems a bit disingenuous. A university surely does not have a duty to give a platform for those who have millions and millions of followers or supporters, nor does a university have a duty to give a platform or space to a party in government or defenders of government policy, who surely have wider reach, support and a greater platform than nearly anyone else?
If anything, academically a university arguably has a duty to represent and make heard voices that are not front-and-center on TV, newspapers, Twitter, WhatsApp and everywhere else.
Also, supporting ruling governments has rarely been 'cool' or fashionable on university campuses throughout history, so it's not surprising that a majority of students might disapprove of those supporting or defending some policies of the current government (the worst of which are arguably not merely 'conservative' but actually far-right and anti-democratic).
(That is even if a large part of that polarisation is cynically and intentionally created by politicians, and even if 'conservatives' are not at serious risk of getting arrested outside of campus for making their views known, unlike the 'left' currently).
But again, it is also a disservice and confusing when you use "RW student" or "Modi supporter" or "conservative" interchangeably, without defining further (and of course, the 'left' is as guilty of this conflation of the right much in the same way.
Are you claiming for instance that if you said, "Adam Smith is awesome", people would bully you? And would you think social opprobrium as unfair if someone made a statement on campus such as "homosexual relationships are against the order of nature" or "India should be first and foremost a nation for and of Hindus"?
But without actually specifying what exactly it was that others labelled as 'problematic' or disagreed with, this post does prima facie seem to be a troll post merely intended to incite a flame war.
If you are genuinely interested in debate on political issues, we will endeavour to continue strictly moderating responses to allow you and others to "make their point on any issue", and to attempt to engage the substance of the argument and ideas rather than insulting the speaker making it.
That is if you are genuinely interested in debate on substance.
The same goes for the so-called 'left', many of whom might consider themselves to be liberal on social policies but are effectively in support of free market capitalism in their day-to-day ideology.
Maybe rather than listing the transaction, also make sure you describe the skills you learned or employed, such as "legal research on FEMA in a multinational acquisition in the telecoms and technology space".
However, the crux is that 'bioweapon unleashed by China' still remains just a theory without any actual proof. That paper by the Daily Mail does not yet appear to have been peer reviewed or published yet. And even from the abstract published it does seem like it is largely circumstantial speculation that explicitly states "absolute proof can not be provided", and they "assess hypotheses" and "reasonable deduction". None of us in this thread are virologists, but the abstract's conclusion basically says that more research needs to be done (and that by their arguments, those claiming a zoonotic origin need more "persuasive evidence" before their theory can be accepted).
The Daily Mail headline seems rather more sensational than the abstract would suggest. And the authors of the paper seem to have previously, in 2020, also over-sold the conclusions of a Covid-China paper pre-publication in the media, with the eventually peer-reviewed article not containing the same explosive facts: https://fullfact.org/health/richard-dearlove-coronavirus-claims/ (one co-authors is also a UKIP politician, which does not necessarily bode well for scientific independence).
In short, the original points stand: until an actual open investigation of the Wuhan lab, it will be hard if not impossible to prove or disprove either theory, though the zoonotic theory is still the most likely and accepted as most plausible by most scientists.
But yes, scientists should keep investigating and researching. And a full fact-finding investigation should be carried out in China. But whether that will happen is largely politicised at this point, as is the 'Covid bioweapon' theory itself.
And what if they don't? At that point all left of centre NLS grads are automatically hypocrites?