It’s that time of the year again. The time when a flood of relatives leave you with a landslide of advice and all around you your parents, friends and even the media sets off a tornado of expert opinion leaving you...
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Let us be defiant (Domingo Gomes) Featured
Reason sometimes distances the self from the self. It weakens the being and constantly impedes and frustrates the soul from achieving the compelling vastness that it is here to achieve and coerce its magnanimity to succumb to alternative plans of destiny...
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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.
It kills a student after every second!!...
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No. I did not see myself as a lawyer. When I graduated fifteen years ago, lawyers were one of two things – assorted lawyers on the pavement outside the city metropolitan court or the types ones saw on ‘The Practice’, ‘Boston...
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7. Seven. VII. Semesters. That's a very long time in law student years. It has been a roller coaster. Let's look at what all things happen 'Only in law school'
Here goes.
1. People will start fearing you as soon as...
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First year at law school was not just an ordinary year. It was 1000 hours of lecture, 120 hours of mooting, 60 hours of debating/arguing, 1500 hours of sleeping and 360 hours of internship. When a pilot with experience of...
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Counseling rounds of almost every law school is now when over, students have fasten their seat belts to take off for new life at law school. To be a law student, one needs to be enrolled in a full time...
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"Its not about living forever Jacky, ITS ABOUT LIVING WITH YOURSELF". I heard this dialogue in Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. This statement is very true and as we all are in the phase of becoming an advocates or...
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"Its not about living forever Jacky, ITS ABOUT LIVING WITH YOURSELF". I heard this dialogue in Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. This statement is very true and as we all are in the phase of becoming an advocates or...
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Year: 2050.
Scenario: On the vast plains of erstwhile Sunderbans forests, there are 2 armies locking horns with each other. And not just an army, army of armies. Just like Troy. On one side, there are some of our own “Black Suited-up”...
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Dear would-be law student,
(Ermm‘Teenie weenie’ died of over-use)
A few days back, I got a call from a would-be law student’s dad. When he was done with queries regarding the college, the things his son would need, placements etc....
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Dear tennie weenie Law Student,
Welcome to a National Law University. Whichever NLU it is; some things will apply; things which are perennial and all embracing. Things like laws(?) And you’ll have to adjust to these things. I call it puppy...
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Q. I have made it to a national law school. What should I expect? How should I prepare for a life at an NLU?
Ans. 1. Prepare to be crushed and subdued in everything you think you are great at. If...
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Law Schools can be stifling, stultifying and discouraging at times. People look down upon the ‘other’; sometimes very disparagingly. A mooter thinks mooting is ‘the’ thing. The cool guy thinks that ‘mooting’ is for nerds etc etc.
I believe we should...
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THE FIFTH YEARS ARE LEAVINGThe fifth years are leaving:
The mooters are leaving, the debaters are leaving,
Their trophies, proudly in the library sit,
Smiling at the newer faces.
The researchers are leaving, the writers are leaving.
Their books and...
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