Sports lawyer Nandan Kamath (NLS ‘00) accepts government prize for sporting NGO

Friday, 30 August 2019 By Legally India Law firms

Nandan Kamath accepts gov’t sports promotion prize

Sports firm LawNK founder Nandan Kamath has accepted the government’s Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar award on behalf of the GoSports Foundation, which he co-founded in 2008.

GoSports is a non-profit that works towards “the development of some of India’s top talents in Olympic and Paralympic disciplines, through our athlete scholarships and knowledge building programmes”, according to is website.

Its board of advisors includes Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra, former Indian cricket captain Rahul Dravid and All England Badminton Champion Pullela Gopichand.

The Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar was founded in 2009 to promote development of sports in India.

GoSports managing trustee Kamath is a 2000 graduate of NLSIU Bangalore, was Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and holds an LLM from Harvard Law School.

He had worked at US firm Davis Polk & Wardwell between 2003 and 2006 before returning to India.

In 2007, Kamath had set up LawNK, which specialises in sports law.

We have reached out to him for comment.

Another NLS graduate, Aparna Kumar, was also awarded a government prize for adventure sports yesterday.

The President of India tweeted:

President Kovind presents Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar, 2019 to GoSports Foundation.

The Foundation works towards the development of some of India’s most talented, emerging and elite athletes competing in multiple sporting disciplines.

— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) Thu, 29 Aug 2019, 20:29

LawNK Nandan Kamath

Comments

NLS 30 Aug 2019, 08:54

+15 -4

Say what you will - law schoolites rock

Court Pleader 30 Aug 2019, 09:19

+3 -0

I believe "accepted" instead of "received" has been used for a reason. But I don't get the reason.

Ragini Lahoti 9 Sept 2019, 07:08

+0 -0

I believe there are other members instrumental for setting up and running the NGO, that should explain why.

Guest 31 Aug 2019, 00:24

+12 -10

To those wondering why only NLSIU news is being covered, it is because the alumni are doing different and more interesting things beyond the world of CAM and SAM. If most students in your college end up choosing "safe" careers like CAM and SAM jobs instead of following their passion, do not expect them to do pathbreaking things and feature in news other than partner promotions. LI has covered news like NALSAR and JGLS alumni ranking 1 in the DJS exam, NUJS students getting Rhodes and Gates, and NLUD performing well in UPSC. One big non-NLSIU story that LI has missed is the Institute of Eminence status for JGLS and DU, but that is the exception.

Guest 31 Aug 2019, 05:40

+13 -5

Actually, that's not accurate at all. Plenty of other NLU alumni too have been doing a lot of good stuff, in areas ranging from community development to films to entrepreneurial work to academics to cutting edge research. It's just that Kian's NLSIU network is stronger than others, so he gets to hear of their work more. He's also openly hinted of his NLSIU bias on more than one occasion, but that's his personal quirk and I am not critiquing that. If he is actively on the lookout for similar news, he'd get plenty more. But LI seems shorthanded these days anyway.

Guest 31 Aug 2019, 19:45

+6 -4

Please list these alleged instances and I am sure Kian will be happy to cover them. Did any NALSAR/NUJS/NLUD etc alum get an award from the President, or an Oxford/Ivy League professorship, or a QC designation?

Guest 1 Sept 2019, 01:55

+5 -1

This is not a measuring contest. Nor the proper piece for it. This one is meant to celebrate a good achievement from a Law School alum. Please leave it at that. I am from Law School myself, yet I agree with 3.1 that there's no dearth of achievement by alum from other NLUs either. Nobody needs to list anything out to Kian and even if he doesn't get around to cover any achievement, I doubt any of the people involved would be bothered about it in particular. Because achievers in life seldom bother about what other people are saying about them.

Guest 1 Sept 2019, 02:04

+2 -3

@3.1.1: Buddy, the most well-known IPS officer from the NLU community and recipient of multiple awards, isn't from NLSIU. Nor does NLSIU rank foremost in terms of number of alumni who have actually chosen to remain in India and join academia here to help the Indian students reach their full potential, which in my opinion is not in any way inferior to those who have chosen to leave the country for greener pastures. The entrepreneurial work done by alumni from other law schools is also more than comparable to NLSIU alumni. Even the most cited student law journal in the country isn't from NLSIU. Movements like IDIA that have been game changers haven't originated from there either. I don't know whether you're from NLSIU yourself, but your attitude of there being some achievements worth celebrating is unbecoming of a graduate from that excellent institution.

Guest 1 Sept 2019, 02:29

+4 -0

Did anyone from NALSAR graduate in 1999 or 2000? These guys are 7th/8th graduating batch from NLS, give similar time to other places (2011/2012 batch at NALSAR till 2031/2032) and they shall also produce similar (not identical) results.

Achievements in 'non-regular' fields start trickling in once students go in knowing the regular avenues are secured. Afford other places similar time before you ask them to show you the results.

That said, people from other places need to quit moaning when NLS gets covered today for what they are achieving today. These achievements are to be celebrated and used as inspirations for all of us to push on.

Guest 1 Sept 2019, 18:53

+1 -0

Kian, please interview NLU alumni teaching in India and ask them about the challenges and hostility from the old guard. The interviews can be anonymous if necessary.

Guest 2 Sept 2019, 23:05

+0 -1

Kian has so far withheld such a story because it would have exposed the fact that the state of faculty at NLSIU is quite poor and most of their good alumni teach elsewhere. However, with Sudhir joining and an influx of alumni likely to join, he will now do the story and hype up NLSIU once again.

Alias 2 Sept 2019, 05:26

I honestly feel that comments to certain pieces of honest, noteworthy and undeniable achievements (such as this one) should be disabled.

Cheeky monkey 2 Sept 2019, 10:19

What's his book?

Harper lee 5 Sept 2019, 09:44

+2 -0

How to kill a mockingbird

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