AND ONE DAY I WILL BE PARTNER… And one day I will be Partner, When the sky will be hot and the day aglow, And there will be sweat on each one of my Associate’s brow. “How did he make Partner?” they’ll whisper, Who let this tyrant through they’ll wail, So much of work I will load them with, chained t...

Much has been said about the to be held bar exams. Analysis of the news however has more or less focussed on the adverse impact of the developments on students passing out this year, and not on solutions. Through the means of this blog, I request professionals and seniors in the industry to guide st...

The argument. Decisions of the CJI or his delegate, under section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (A & C Act) have no binding value whatsoever on any court on any forum except the forums / arbitral tribunal/ parties involved in the arbitral proceeding in which such findings und...

An unfortunate Incident:- Yesterday, my friend narrated a real life story which left me dumbstruck. The said incident happened a few days a go. A 23 year old girl who was studying in one of the premier fashion institutes decided to shift her place of residence. She was in her final year and was expe...

The courtrooms, deserted generally during the summer break, give a great chance to walk around courts in Mumbai, some of which have great architecture. But a couple of courtrooms function for urgent matters and entering the courtroom gurantees toes being stepped upon. There is urgency for matters to...

I was shattered after reading this news article couple of day’s back, in some village in Ranchi, three men chopped parents of 14 year old kid in front of her eyes on the charges of practicing witchcraft. The same news instigated me to dug up and read more on the subject. I came across some more horr...

I am not a story teller. The art of story writing is a highly complicated one and is best left to accomplished masters of the craft, Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan, Guy De Maupassant and the likes.

Reservation(in the Indian context;I am not talking about Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav's tatkal quota here)will remain a contentious issue as long as democracy survives(the founding fathers of our constitution surely hadn't anticipated this)i.e in a country like ours, forever(unless one is overtly pessimistic).

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has agreed to postpone the planned bar exam to December, we are informed. Kian has insinuated here that another possible angle in introduction of the proposed Bar Admission examination may perhaps be to meet the ‘reciprocity’ criterion in the municipal law (e.g.: “You ...

The short point which arose for consideration (in 9 complaints and one appeal) before the Central Information Commission was whether the Bar Council of India and the State Bar Councils are ‘Public Authorities’ within the meaning of Section 2(h) (b) of the RTI Act, 2005. The Bar Council of India, in ...

An arrogant professor, with a sole ambition in life --- TORTURE! Many a Law Student has faced this, and many more shall don the robes of the ‘Sacrificial Lamb’. Here’s to all those Legal Raavan’s who have made an otherwise heavenly Law School Experience hell for the students! PS – The sole inspirati...

Our politicians hailed it as a strong message to Pakistan, the Maharashtra Chief Minister called for an early execution, Special Public Prosecutor Ujwal Nikam gave it the two thumbs up. There were fire crackers in the streets of South Bombay and sweets distrusted in its offices. Hang men are now com...

Tagore firmly believed that independence from the British, in itself, would be meaningless and merely lead to replacing a foreign oppressor with home-grown ones as long as Indians stayed mired in superstition, ritualism, caste ism and such other ims. This belief made him strongly oppose Gandhi’s phi...

Those were the ‘ catastrophic ’ words which were uttered by the naïve Maulana Noor-ul-Huda on the phone just a few minutes before the take off aboard his Emirates flight on Wednesday which promoted the Delhi Police not only to offload him from the aircraft at the IGI Airport but also book him under ...

CALL TO ACTION Final year Students Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! We are under attack from the repressive tyrannical Bar Council. All of us who have worked so hard over five years of law sweating it out at internships, writing papers, winning moots, doing summer courses and what no...

Male Rapes – Some Myths, Statistics, True Incidents and Legal Insight A True Story Is Rape attempted only on females? I would request you to think again. Male rapes are not fiction created in novels and movies. What happened in Shawshank Redemption can happen to anyone at any place. Shikhar (name ch...

Its official now that we are going to have a caste based census this time after a gap of 80 years. Caste is an inescapable reality of Indian society. Supporters of caste enumeration argue that census categories merely reflect existing classifications, and that only the census can provide the figures...

on the lines of “legalpoet” i thought to post something poetic.. so, at first an acknowledgment to him.. Now here it goes … *** Capitalism * ki duniya me hum profit aise kamate hain , Sahmat hokar apas me hum, khud ka kanoon banate hain. Koi contract banana ko jo sabse jyada jaruri hai, Party do com...

When the judge pronounced Kasab guilty, the tv reporters and agency reporters rushed to the doors of the court! They fought like cats to be out first and break the news! One poor friend of mine actually got bumped in the head by a metal detector, which tilted with the people running out unthinkingly...

Kasab may have been the lone gunman to have survived from the lot of 10 terrorists who entered India by the sea route to create a havoc in the city. But is sending him to the gallows the right route to adopt? I firmly believe that anyone who attacks my nation deserves to be slaughtered, as was the f...

Till now the law students must be aware about the proposed bar examinations in India. After going through both sides of arguments (law students v bar council), it seems both have their respective share of merits. The final year law students are somewhat apprehensive about the bar examinations. They ...