Blogs by Kian Ganz

The thing with independence is that it’s very hard to get it back once it’s been lost. Likewise, the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) genie, once unleashed, would have been very hard to tame were it to ever run amok in one, 10 or 100 years from now. That must have weighed heavily on ...

A lady (not a lawyer) Retired Justice Markandey Katju published a blog post today entitled “Lady Lawyers” . In typical Katju blogging fashion (whenever not causing a media storm about judicial corruption), it’s a trip down memory lane starting with his time as a lawyer in 1970 Allahabad. Katju is tr...

Guest blogger and Supreme Court advocate Shinam A Seth writes about what has made this election special. The last vote has been cast. The last franchise exercised. The exit polls play havoc with the mind and the market alike. As the curtains on the largest democratic, electoral exercise known to hum...

I just saw this on a corporate lawyer’s Facebook page and thought it’d be fun to share here, with permission. Do please share your corporate law war stories in the comments. 8 years a lawyer by Anonymous 1. An administrator over a call kept saying “in due course” repeatedly and my mentee* worriedly ...

A reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent us a missive yesterday about his / her reality of job hunting while at one of the younger national law schools. It rang true and was rather interesting, so I thought it was worth sharing (I see that more or less the same letter has also been published o...

Love: Sames attract Guest post by an anonymous lawyer and several talented non-lawyer collaborators who’ve had their fair share of legal ‘experience’. Disclaimer: If you have a sensitive heart and/or soul, you may be offended. Please no blaming or suing. Seriously, we mean it. Okay. So you meet this...

Guest post, anonymised at author’s request. BOARD EXAMS ARE OVER, CLAT ON HEAD… TENSION TENSION.. TENSION… This is what I experienced in the month of April! Studying for Entrance exams,Changing patters, Vast G.K. Yell It kills a student after every second!! But this is what it is! Life is like this ...

Soli Sorabjee Happy Birthday Soli Sorabjee, explains corporate lawyer Ashim Krishna Sood in this ode to his former senior Sorabjee. Sood is a graduate of NLSIU Bangalore and Harvard Law School’s LLM programme. He is now living in Delhi, after a stint in the USA since 2006, where he was an associate ...

Legally India is never one to spurn a good meme, so we have decided to adapt the latest craze making the rounds on the internet to the noble Indian legal profession. Here is part 1 for advocates. Corporate lawyers job meme to be posted tomorrow. Please RT, FB like and disseminate if you enjoy it. ![...

There’s this Facebook group for Nalsarites with the motto “ Fighting controversy with ridiculosity since 1998”. It’s pretty cool. So, I hear on the Webs that I have now apparently become a Nalsar meme, alongside Facebook pages for Veer ‘ Now Look Here ’ Singh, and Amita ‘ Let’s Problematise ’ Dhanda...

This has been doing the rounds in the legal fraternity by email, in response to the ubiquitous viral movie-promo music video Why This Kolaveri Di . It was inevitable, really. If you haven’t yet, watch the original video below, which is sung in a mix of Madras Tamil and quasi-English with the title l...

So… I was sent an email more than two months ago containing nothing but this attachment and a request to publish it. I apologise to the anonymous author for the delay. The post is a nice rant, pretty well-written and raises interesting points, although it’s a bit short in supporting evidence. So, he...

AS JSA has just celebrated its twentieth birthday, we are publishing a guest blog post by JSA of counsel Desh Gaurav Sekhri who writes about his boss’ photographic memory, lunch with Jyoti, outbursts of temper and the personality of the “pulse of the firm”. Here goes… As J Sagar Associates (JSA) com...

This is a guest blog post from lawyer Arjya Majumdar who works at a large national law firm in Delhi. It was first published on his Facebook feed and has been edited slightly. Enjoy! At the time of writing this, Mr Hazare, has agreed to the Delhi Police offer of a two-week protest at the Ramlila Gro...

Mumbai reeled yesterday under three bombs that killed, injured and shook the confidence of the city. Reporting a tragedy of such a scale is a difficult task for any journalist but one story that appears irresponsible in the face of evidence has taken hold of the mainstream media.

If, unlike apparently most of India, you’re in the office pretending to be productive instead of watching the Cricket World Cup, feel free to commiserate here and discuss match progress with other cricket-denied lawyers in the comments. ESPN is streaming the match live online. And if think it’s unfa...

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Advocates’ identity obscured to comply with advocate advertising/canvassing restrictions (although it does seem that the election is over now). Hope he won!

Dear Legally India reader, I am sorry.

image The Legally India poll on what the Bar Council of India (BCI) should do next about the bar exam attracted more than 500 (genuine) voters, with 69 per cent of self-proclaimed grads wanting the exam cancelled in 2010 . A total of 13 per cent want the exam to be scrapped forever, while roughly th...

Above-The-Law-nayar-letter US self-styled legal tabloid Above The Law has an interesting post with a purported letter from a 1930 law student in India (see snippet above). The article was published in The Law College Magazine of Bombay and is entitled “Is It Worthwhile? A Frank Talk with Budding Law...