Anyways most of the north Indian people, who come to TNNLU, are Andh Bhakts. I remember, when I was in my 2nd year, a classmate of mine from a BIMARU state said that Sanskrit should be made the national language of the country, and that everyone should speak in Sanskrit and not in English. Maybe state reservations in TN will decrease the likelihood of our state being dominated by ideologies of my classmate above.

thats your specific judgment of the guy- not even any of his policies. Other people, including myself, disagree with you. Its a shame that this particular website allows people to constantly defame sudhir while doing everything they can to protect every other VC from reputational damage. You cannot say true things that have happened at other universities without moderation, but just call sudhir whatever ugly thing you want and its fine.

Hes a loyal guy who didnt mind staying at NALSAR. He felt obligated because FM had given him a job when he had left NLS in controversy. It might also honestly be just because he was doing his phd and hes a married guy with a kid who didnt want to disrupt his life too much. adults make these decisions based on a range of factors. Sudhir has been offering chauhan an nls job since he joined nls- its not his fault chauhan only made the move now.

Quite a few NLS teach who didn't want Messiah to take over as VC or developed issues later were "accommodated" as VCs in various NLUs such as in TN, Bhopal, Odisha, Jabalpur, Ranchi etc. Even certain faculty members jumped ship and tagged along with these "accommodated" VCs.

Two ex-Registrars (one loudly and another surreptitiously) who tried to scuttle Messiah appointment continue as Profs and strangely did not even jockey for VC positions in NLUs that would have favourably received them.

Certain VC positions will open up soon as the incumbents are on extensions and students are rumbling, such as Nagpur, Kolkata, Shimla etc.

So is anyone looking to move out for "greener" pastures elsewhere?

turncoat and backstabbing? because he spent a decade at an institution teaching well more than most other faculty while taking on so many many other administrative tasks and while getting little to no investment in return? Its only cause hes loyal that hes stayed at nalsar all this while. Anyone else would have left in a couple of years.

Why has he taken a decade to finish? could it be because he was teaching 3/4 courses a term?

so youre just gonna dismiss the argument because of grammar and punctuation? on a post on a website called "legallyindia" where things like "how should i get back at my ex after a bitter breakup?" and "should I sleep with my female boss" are discussed?

It is quite elitist to claim that one must have perfect punctuation and grammar to speak truth to the most powerful court in the land no? Or elitism is okay when it helps your biases?

Your best defence for that atrocious judgment is that its "well drafted"? and not "well reasoned"? I think that there says all of it no. Try and say something actually substantive next time. If your ideas are so great, why not try and actually convince other people through evidence and argument instead of dismissing them?

You're completely wrong. Its embarrassing, you should educate yourself. According to the All India Hijra Kalyan Sabha, something like 95% of hijras are castrated males, not people born with genetic/ biological abnormalities. Its extremely dis-ingenous to claim that hijras are intersex then isnt it? Until this new political wave- members of the all india hijra kalyan sabha were in the supreme court begging the court to step in and stop forced castrations on minors and destitute men. We all have memories that go back farther than 2014 and we have google. you can look this up.

Intersex people dont want to be a third gender, they want to assimilate into society and not be subjected to unnecessary medical treatments. Intersex people are not " biologically neither male nor female". Most intersex people clearly are either male or female, there are like five kinds of intersex conditions ( of which there are thirty odd specific conditions). Most of these conditions only happen to one of the two sexes. Even with the conditions that happen to both sexes, most intersex people are actually male or female and this is clearly discernible, because they are on a developmental pathway that leads to reproducing via large gametes (ova) or small gametes (sperm), even if that pathway is interrupted by congenital conditions. many intersex people dont know they are intersex until late adolescence. There isnt a person alive today, nor has there been a person alive, who wasnt on the pathway to produce ova or sperm. There is no person who produces both or a mix, theres no person who reproduces via sperg or spegg. There are many people male and female who produce neither eggs nor sperm- that doesnt stop them from being male or female. Castrated bulls do not become cows. Colin Wright and Richard Dawkins have both said things to this effect, you can look it up.

Trying to argue that hijras or transgenders are all intersex is coopting a medical condition for political aims. Its like faking a disability to get out of the draft or to get to use dedicated parking spaces. And these groups are at odds. Trans identified people want to change their biology and get "sex change" operations, not just for themselves but even for other peoples children. intersex people dont want medicalisation by and large and are trying to resist forced medicalisation- this last is even in supriyo. Trans people want to be known as third gender, intersex people dont. Trans identified people want to remove sex segregation as a policy, intersex people dont.

The NALSA judgment doesnt merely recognise intersex people as third gender. Have you read NALSA? where does it say you need to be diagnosed with a genetic condition for you to be "third gender"? It recognises that a man- fully a man, a man who has had children and a wife, functioning reproductive organs and all- can "identify" as a woman. To do so he needs neither castration, nor "sex change" surgeries nor nail polish and make up and a spinny skirt. He literally just needs to say it. That is what the import of NALSA is- self ID. This is not based on anything biological at all, its based in a soul claim about self perception and an "inner perception of self". The claim is that you can either be a girly barbie or a manly GI joe, and anyone who doesnt identify with that has to go on a gender journey to figure out the gender of their soul, and that that "gender identity" is what forms the basis on which the law should recognise you. Im assuming you are a complex person, which gender does your soul have? are you a girly barbie or a manly GI Joe? Can souls only have gender? can souls have race and caste and all that? why are so many souls born in the wrong body? who is putting souls in the wrong bodies? to believe in gender identity- you not only have to believe in a soul, you also have to believe in a god, and a god that makes mistakes. And you have to fundamentally believe that womens souls are just different than mens souls, that socially constructed gender goes down to the core essence of who we are. If you believe that- you can be persuaded to believe that women are just not cut out for work and education and should do womanly things like baking and childcare.

What does identifying as a male/ female/ third gender without a biological basis mean? what are you identifying as? How does a male born in a male body having male genetalia know what it is to be a female? He can feel discomfort in his body- we all feel discomfort in our bodies. But how does he know what being female is about? Is there an explanation that you can provide that doesnt rely on ugly social stereotypes that dehumanise women? I am female , because ive only ever been in a female body, I have been very uncomfortable and distressed at my female body- but I cannot begin to tell you what it would be to be male anymore than i could tell you what it was to be a 6'5 black guy- its just not an experience I will have. How do males know theyre "really female on the inside"?

Why is gender the one area where you can identify in and out of a group without any biological basis? Why not race? why not disability? why not caste? Why can I not identify as a dalit if being called a brahmin causes me great distress? Why can I not identify as a wheel chair user if walking around makes me feel great distress? With every other characteristic the law protects- its an immutable characteristic that youre just born into. This is clearly not immutable no? the claim is that its fluid so in fact- very mutable, should the law protect mutable characteristics as if they were immutable?

Please explain- what is gender? what is the difference between gender and sex? what are the roles behaviours that people in other two genders are doing that we need third gender? Do you know the difference or will you keep confusing sex and gender?

Okay then. Some transgenders are intersex people who have both male and female genitalia due to biological abnormalities. Intersex people constitute the third gender. For the longest time, intersex people were not separately recognized as a sex even though they are, biologically, neither male nor female. The NALSA judgment merely recognized intersex people as the third gender. Intersex is not popularly used and often confused with the term transgender. Whether biological basis or not, a person may choose to identify as male, female, or the third gender.

what does gender mean? I know yall like to think NALSA is some revelation from god that completely explains the whole world. But please explain to me what is the difference between Gender and Sex? what are the other two genders? what social roles are people in the other two genders performing? what about the gender of Hijras makes them not male? And explain to me how saying Hijras are castrated males is wrong?
Exactly what are the requirements to fit into "third gender" category? what is a "transgender?" Do "transgender" people change sex?

Answering any of these questions with any degree of clarity is better than constantly telling people to consult your wordy texts, whether thats NALSA or J Butler- both of whom i have read and have had no trouble understanding. Resist the urge to appeal to authority.

Nah, because Rhodes scholarship is an individual achievement and there are plenty of excellent students at NLUD who can and should get such laurels. Just to clarify, I didn't write that abusive comment, even if I do not have any love for the superiority complex often displayed by NLUD trolls on this forum.

https://newcriterion.com/article/the-hypocrisy-of-noam-chomsky/

Excellent, excellent article which LI readers must read, given the blind adulation I see for this man among ▮▮▮ law school students and faculty. It's really appalling how he fanboyed Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and got away with it. The last para of this article is a zinger:

"Chomsky has declared himself a libertarian and anarchist but has defended some of the most authoritarian and murderous regimes in human history. His political philosophy is purportedly based on empowering the oppressed and toiling masses but he has contempt for ordinary people who he regards as ignorant dupes of the privileged and the powerful. He has defined the responsibility of the intellectual as the pursuit of truth and the exposure of lies, but has supported the regimes he admires by suppressing the truth and perpetrating falsehoods. He has endorsed universal moral principles but has only applied them to Western liberal democracies, while continuing to rationalize the crimes of his own political favorites. He is a mandarin who denounces mandarins. When caught out making culpably irresponsible misjudgments, as he was over Cambodia and Sudan, he has never admitted he was wrong."

Hi, no I did not which is weird considering I was able to answer majority of the questions asked. The experience was not good. The associate who interviewed me called almost an hour after the scheduled time only for the interview to last less than 6 minutes. It was almost as if they had decided they are not gonna take this ahead. Also, not to mention the interview was extremely rushed and not professional.

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