Experts & Views
Hello. Made it ? Decided to Come ? Right. Welcome.
Or Not.
Newbie, THIS is why you should RUN for your life in the other direction :
1) Heard about places in the middle of nowhere ?
Well, get to the middle of nowhere, then take a left, and go down a 2.8 km stretch. That’s Nalsar. We’re 25 DAMN KM from Hyderabad.
See, this isn’t really Nalsar, Hyderabad . It’s Nalsar, the hamlet of Shameerpet.
2) The chief attraction within a 5 kilometre radius is a deer park. The chief attraction within a 10 kilometre radius is a café that smells of a curious mixture of phenol and animal fat, mixed with cheap perfume. Eau di Toilet, really.
3) The teachers. Many of them are often mediocre. When they’re not being terrible, that is. Within the walls of the NALSAR academic block, we’ve been accosted with lecturers who felt that teaching the law involved reading out the bare act as slowly as possible and nothing much more; where the idea of “application based questions” has often been re-imagined as testing the ability to guess what case the set of naggingly familiar facts belongs to; and where a constructive academic review was met with anger and sarcasm as opposed to introspection.
The pursuit of knowledge never was such a struggle.
4) Us. We’re often snotty, arrogant and phlegmatic.
5) 5) The Curfew timings : 7 Pm. ‘nuff said.
… And this is why you’d be an idiot if you do :
1) 1) So, we’re far away from the noise of the city. Think about it - haven’t you had enough constant , unceasing exposure to that most of your life ? Now this kind of remoteness - it forces you to interact with big chunks of the 400 –odd people around you. Even more importantly – it gives you chances, space, moments - to know yourself better. This is often rewarding … the best times I’ve had in law school weren’t the ones when I was out partying out in the city. It’s always been the quieter moments, the little rooftop conversations in the dead of the night, the daily mess coffee gathering at 4.30, or the lakeside strolls at 6 pm.
2) 2) Hey, I like deer. You’ll probably like them too. Plus, you get to feed the deer at the park ! Plus, this park is apparently one of the the top 10 biodiversity parks in India, atleast according to some winter 2008 issue of Jet Airways’ inflight magazine. It also has a curious log cabin with a tree trunk growing through a hole in a bed. Now that story I’d like to know.
And the café ? Well it does have an open air section, so the only time you really have to experience the stomach-turning aroma is when you go inside to haggle about the bill. Haggling bills with establishments in the vicinity of Shameerpet appears to be a stolid NALSAR tradition.
3) The teachers. I walked into law school looking at the law as nothing more than an instrumentality, a ladder, to get me those big bucks at a firm. I walk out with a genuine sense of fascination for the law, about its myriad possibilities, about its potential to destroy, and to rebuild. I attribute this transformation almost completely to 2 professors on campus, who, through a mixture of intense discussions - both within the classroom and outside, through challenging, pushing and prodding me, made me re-evaluate everything I thought I knew.
The exhilaration of your brain whizzing to make connections , even as you start recalling the verbose valentines to the law you’d read before joining law school and begin seeing some glimmer of truth in them ?
Well, we have classes where you get to experience that.
4) Us. Firstly, every law student worth his salt is snotty, arrogant and phlegmatic. But there’s a more important secondly. See, years of being far from the madding crowd and trapped together has caused us all to go politely, but very very thoroughly, insane. This makes for an often entertaining on-campus experience, combining influences from the best of absurdist theatre with more popular culture to interesting effect. This is the campus where a hostel curfew protest was led with a group of blues guitarists jamming outside the hostel gates at the “forbidden hour”. Otherwise sane young adults have chased each other with mops around the library the night before an exam. Within the walls of this esteemed legal institution I have witnessed a play featuring what I believe were talking genitalia arguing about why they weren’t spoken about more prolifically.
Atleast I think that’s what it was about.
5) Okay, the curfew timings are just WRONG.
There are other things of course. There is the constant uphill battle in obtaining a semblance of lucid reasoning/engagement with the administration. There are the mushrooming academic groups, that start strong, flare out, then are revived with even more resolve. There are the spur-of-the-moment on-campus dance parties. There is the Drama Club. There was a movie club - maybe you can come and revive it ?
Whatever, newbie. This is going to be a wild ride, but it never gets boring.
Except, well, the bit where you have to study the CPC. Not fun.
P.S. thanks to legalpoet for giving me the idea by doing a similar post on NLU. Cheers !
http://danspeak.blogspot.com/
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PS- Who's the second of the two professors?
@ 1...my post was on life in a national law university...an NLU...it could be any NLU...here it is www.legallyindia.com/927-i-came-i-saw-i-changed-17-things-that-hit-you-in-an-nlu-how-to-prepare
And 3 applies to most national law schools.
erm. right, so THAT'S what you're taking away from this post ? sigh.
okay, even if according to you, what i've said just boils down to "privileged law school goer cribs pointlessly" perhaps its important to consider that this kind of cribbing is what keeps any institution great. That's right. Constantly questioning a place keeps you from getting complacent about it - there is no point at which you can and should rest on the laurels of any institution and be satisfied with what you have. If you've done, that, if you've stopped fighting, then you've given in.
And that's when EVERYONE loses.
nice one :)
And yes, the curfew timings are just wrong :)
- Devdeep
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Indeed.
I want to see that tree trunk though!
HAHAHA. LMAO.
Very funny
hot girls?
You forgot to mention the bonfire of matresses.
And maro maro.
@34. yeah the laws of supply and demand don't work - for the girls. for every reasonably cute woman on campus, there are atleast 5 hideous men. no hope for us queers either.
@ Sadapurna. They talk to you and they'll be inspired for years woman. :D
and sure, there are queer people. just, not enough. but then, as i generally say, there are never enough queer people.
p.s. i wasn't considering dignifying your comments with a reply, but hey, i'm bored. cheers.
@39 wannabe a lawyer- please don't be a lawyer.
We also stopped doing the bonfire thing at the naked parties because-- have you EVER been drunk and naked and near an open fire? Well friend, don't try it. You'll feel it every time you visit the restroom for DAYS after.
So anyway, the naked moonlight thing is so passe, we prefer to gather in groups and watch man on man dance floor action. Sometimes without the music playing also. And then give the participants and a point-by-point critique on dance floor action moves.
Its fun.
Its mostly true, what you heard. Not entirely accurate though, each one of them paint their bodies a shade of the rainbow, and THEN dance under the moonlight. To George Michael.
Homosexuality is what?
Rampart?
How did you get past the CLAT?
:)
And I agree with Danish. There are some stories that have to be told in person, only. They lose their flavour otherwise.
Cheers!
And the most high maintenance.
Tis true.
secondly, you seem the type to support this close minded 'same gotra marriage killing spree'. at NALSAR we highly dislike close minded people. more importantly,did you even make it to NALSAR pal?
thirdly, i think you're dyslexic. check the spellings on your comment.you probably didn't qualify for NALSAR.
lastly, if you're 17-18 years old and not horny, you're not human.
stay the fuck out of NALSAR.
prettiest woman in all law schools!
You guys are making NALSAR seem like fun!!
Sadly thats not the case.
but i herd u guys have awsome barbeque parties, without queers though. Danish have u been for these parties?
egh.
shut up.
You missed danish' point. again.
You should take some lessons in reading comprehension. Did you even read the second part of the article? Or do you happen to personally know Danish and hate him? Or are you so homophobic that you just cant stand Danish for his sexuality and views?
If you cannot understand a few simple and well written paragraphs of English, you should just stay away from this forum.
So here i present to all Nalsar aspirants- UNITY !
the support and the bond u form if u get into Nalsar.
Hey guys...just wanted to make this point! i'm proud of u!
If people believe in Victorian morality, there is a museum right inside the Victoria Memorial which could host and exhibit them. They are no more suited to the real world.
1.Do you guys do ragging and all that stuff??
2.I heard that they don't allow students to carry mobiles with camera.......
3.Do they allow bikes and stuff????
4.How is the food quality?
5.Do you guys have exams regularly?
6.If it's so far away from the city......how do the students keep up with entertainment....like movies and stuff???
Mak
2. RUles are there in every place. No meant to be followed. Chill.
3.No vehicles. I don't think NLS or NUJS does either.
4.Food is pretty decent as per mess standards. Also you get Hyderabadi Biriyani!
5.Regular exams. Surprises, Mid Sems, End Sems, tests in class, et. al.
6. No dearth of entertainment in the campus. We have an amazing campus life. Movies, aah you just dont know the depository we have here. Also, Karkhana is not far away just 20- 30 mins. It has everything from your KFC to McD's and theatres. Cheers!
and Congratulations NALSAR on leading the pack at MPL 2
NLS allows vehicles.
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