This post is written to provide a cynical view of the categories of people one comes across in a Law School.
1. The Making Contacts Specialists: These people love to volunteer at moots, Conferences and other academic activities organized by their...
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We all want to be successful. No one can deny it. Although our definitions of success are often very different from one another. When I decided to do law, I wanted to be successful. I wanted enough money for survival and...
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There was a lot of coverage on the IDIA initiative (Click here to read about the initiative ). I like what they're trying to do here. However, the numbers are stacked wildly against anyone trying to bring in change. There are...
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Well, I saw Inception the other day. Brilliant movie. Awesome storyline and brilliant performances.
One strange thing that caught my attention in the movie was how Mal Cobb dies. She commits suicide but Mr. Cobb ( Dicaprio) is the one who...
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The State of World Population Report suggests that In India
1. A Rape is committed every 54 minutes; 2. Molestation every 26 minutes; 3. Kidnapping or abduction every 43 minutes; 4. Eve-teasing every 51 minutes; 5. Dowry death every 1 hour...
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Recruitment is a big deal for students who graduate. Being professional in approaching the whole process is not an option but a job requirement. In the following points, we look at how to streamline the recruitment policy in a college and...
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The young think-tank Research Foundation for Governance in India (RFGI) has been working hard at changing the legal and political landscape in India, recounts Legally India blogger napster.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal on June 7, 2010 pronounced the much awaited-delayed-disappointing verdict on the criminal liability of the perpetrators of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. For 20,000 lives lost, 7 of the accused were convicted for 2 years...
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With due regards to the students, alumni and faculties of NLUs, I have no doubt the NLUs are truly national in terms of student compostition, different in terms of curriculum and administrative structures from other tradtional law colleges. The big question...
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In Law schools, relationships mainly start due to boredom.
Yes, that what I believe. I have seen it and I think a lot of people have too.
I have to clarify. I am not talking about all the relationships. I am...
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How much longer shall we purge?
Laws are but words untouchable Ideas of thought.
It is these words which form the fibers, material for social engineering. The very material by which societies are built, broken and rebuilt.
The reason to take from the weak...
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Note:- All of the following people, locations, activities and incidents are purely fictional with absolutely no basis in reality, so if you see a resemblance to anything existent, I compliment your imagination :)
“They’re girls. They’re all girls! And they’re...
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“Joining CRPF was the biggest mistake of my life. I have realized that the country doesn’t honor its soldiers and it is better to take voluntary retirement after 20 years of service than to be treated as a pawn” says an...
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I want to haul you down to a Love CourtYou’ll get the notice any day nowProbably on pink paperOr atleast an angry shade of redIt’ll come enveloped in a heart-shaped folderWhich you’ll have to rip apart at the seamsBut then, you’re...
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Here we were, minding our own business, enjoying life in our 'National' Law University when we were dealt a heavy blow by the university's trinity of ruthless hands: Bureaucracy, Vindictiveness and Subjectivity. But these Hundred faces I talk about have seen...
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They have never been to a law school or sported the lawyer's black robes butmany women in rural India are dispensing justice in tough cases like rape, child marriage and even divorce mostly in just two weeks - at “NariAdalats.”
I am sure majority of you would not have heard of Nari Adalats. The literal translation would mean "Women's Court". They are a type of ADR system. Mostly unknown, they work very efficiently. They are known...
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Sorry for a month’s delay in bringing this piece, though it was written just 48 hours after the passing of resolution, but I could not upload it for such a long time as my laptop just then decided to go for...
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DO YOUR BIT!
- The events depicted in this blog are fictitious. Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental.
- "The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed." --Edgar Allan Poe
Mr....
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The strike of the strike, as a newspaper called it.
What are the effects of Bandh? Is it the right way to protest?
Bandh is basically a strike. Everything is supposed to be closed on a day when a...
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Note - If you are offended by regional stereotypes, or stereotypes of any other sort, please refrain from reading. Thanks :)
Another year, another day, another sweaty evening in law school. From the terrace of my hostel, I survey my kingdom....
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