My dissertation supervisor at an unspecified UK uni (not Oxford is the only clew), who read for the BA in Jurisprudence, BCL and DPhil in Oxford and who taught there in the past, is the one person I have sent a link to this LI thread to, and her day has been made. Seriously?? Oxford and 'diversity' is the best you can do?? If you had chosen to work on the BBC's comedy show creation staff on projects other than Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister, that show would never have been watched by anybody.

Jats are Sat-Shudras. Shudras itself is an artificial term. First it was used to incorporate Indusian commoners into the Vedic religion, just as how Indusian elites were incorporated as Vaishyas. You can see that even in Mauryan period, Shudras were never considered low caste or slave per se.

Slaves were called Dasyus (ancestors of extremely backward classes). Many of these people when they got incorporated into the Shudra class over time, reduced the value of the class and a whole into its present day status. Still apart from Gangu belt, other places of India distinguish Sat-Shudras (UCs sans janeu) from Asat-Shudra (lower caste shudra)

There was no need to specify "Brahmins" here. Upper caste would have sufficed.

Caste is a very endemic concept. Perhaps, a better understanding (and reading) of social reality would have told you that most cases of caste violence (physical violence) in the past 3-4 decades have been committed by NBFCs (Non-Brahmin Forward Castes), particularly in South India.

I mean, yeah. People do write and fail it.I know two three people from my batch who gave years to this and failed. One of them landed okay, got a job at a think tank and then did a masters. The other one not so much, kind of aimless drifting through life right now.

The thing is- the exam is over now, theres no point writing on message boards asking if youre special or specially stupid for doing this with your life. I suggest you give up that mentality where you make excuses for yourself or take pity on yourself. Pull yourself together, get a job, work at that job. You are years behind your batch mates in career progression- but that wont matter a few decades from now. The next thing you do you should be sure you can do it and do it well.

If you really read what I have written, you would note that I am being supportive. If a person derives his sense of self worth from an exam, you need to address the elephant in the room and let him know that his life is worth much more and that the importance of the exam is only in his mind. Sometimes a bit of a nudge achieves more than futile kind words. Cheers

I agry to a large extent to what you are saying, but pal we all think in the manner we are raised. My upbringing was in such a state, and in such a manner that UPSC was a big attraction for me.

I fully agree that this Colonial mindset and this babu/VIP culture should end.

Once a person starts preparing seriously, his whole brain gets high jacked. It's very tough to come out of this chakravyuh. At least I am trying, the majority will keep attempting till they are selected or there are no more attempts left!

Thanking for pointing out my spelling mistake. I don't have any superiority complex in me. Had I had, I would not have posted it here. Anyways my intension was to get reply from fellow aspirants who can keep themselves in my shoes, but unfortunately I am getting more hate, than any discussion on the topic.

They do give callback internships. I have witnessed it. Also work experience is good as in people are chill. But work hours maybe long. When I interned there, morning hours usually the work is minimal. Only after lunchtime, substantial work arrives. Overall it's good I would say

Regardless of whichever spot NUJS is in, GNLU has always consistently ranked below. There are hundreds of universities all over the world with multiple hostels and in NUJS' case, the distance is hardly worth commenting on. In any case, that does not have any impact on the actual education of those students. As for comparing Ahmedabad with Kolkata, people can go to both places and make their own choice.

I am working at a T1 firm and now want to switch to other firm. I have PQE of 1 year. What are the expectations out of me (from interviewer’s perspective) or what are some basic things that I should really know before sitting for an interview?

help required as i want to leave my current firm due to various reasons

Sudhir never mentioned about any focus on clinical study, nor has NLSIU during his time given any additional focus on that basic toolkit or craft of lawyering that you mention. By all means talk about the approach of the UK law schools to that effect, but don't conflate Sudhir's approach with that.

Its not based on sex. Hijras are very clearly castrated males. Theres no real dispute about that. A castrated male doesnt automatically become a female, in the same way that if you spay a dog he doesnt become a bitch. This is reservation based on membership in a "community". a community which in itself cannot be properly defined because the basis for membership is self ID. The proper close analogy is a religious community. We dont have reservations for religions in this country yet.

The judiciary is captured by this gender woo woo. The NALSA judgment is barely coherent and goes well into judicial overreach. This judgment - im not sure, but if the legislature hasnt made constitutional amendments and passed a law that allows for changing the reservation scheme, how can a high court then legislate by citing NALSA? Unelected judges should not be driving policy changes. And groups that approach the court with these undemocratic proposals, CLPR chief among them , that require judges to legislate, they should be seen as authoritarians seeking to subvert democracy.

I dont have a problem with a 1% reservation in theory, but it should be limited to hijras and Kinnars, and it should be voted on by elected legislators. Not everyone who claims the identity without having any surgery or history of exclusion should be able to benefit- but of course our laws allow for self ID so that is fucked. I'll also say- the transgender community is remarkably inconsistent and opportunistic on this (no surprises there), theyve stood for elections from constituencies reserved for women in panchayat elections and at the same time theyve claimed they need reservation for their own group, individuals have changed which group they want to claim reservation under multiple times. It seems to me that if transgenders have a reservation of 1%, then they should stay out of the womens quotas. Even if they dont have reservation of 1% they should still stay out of the womens quota. That particular reservation was created for a reason, to help a specific group. Not to serve trans identified males.

It also seems to me that we need to have a serious adult conversation on what hijras and kinnars are and why is it that they can credibly claim to be excluded from employment and education. As far as I understand, there are no laws that are allowing for discrimination based on gender expression. If you look at history, hijras and kinnars are castrated men who have isolated themselves because theyre in a religious cult. That is the "guru-chela" system that they speak about. The castration is a religious sacrifice for their god. Nobody in mainstream society has forced these men to do this to themselves or to stay in the cult, very often they are kidnapped by older members of the hijra/kinnar community as children. Now if this is just a religious cult that has deliberately isolated itself and decided, as a result of that isolation, that they should live off of begging and prostitution- then I'm not certain a reservation, however tiny, would actually help them. We dont provide reservations to all the cults in india who have isolate themselves from mainstream society. The reservation logic is specifically based on a history of outcasteing/ exclusion from mainstream society. Hijra / Kinnar is not really a caste, its a cult that people choose for themselves, but a dalit person isnt choosing to be dalit- and dalit exclusion isnt self imposed. These two categories are not the same. It will not do for trans to appropriate caste based oppression.

Perhaps what would help them is preventing and prosecuting kidnapping and forcible castration. and dismantling these prostitution and beggary rings and investing in teaching these people skills and giving them adult education so they can become productive members of society and do jobs other than beggary or prostitution.

Reservation is a specific remedy for a specific problem. I dont really see how reservations alone can solve the problems hijras and kinnars face. But if someone can show me how reservations are supposed to help these men come of out their cult- im happy to allow for a 1% reservations for hijras and kinnars and not on the basis of self id. Perhaps we should collect data to show whether and why there is exclusion. All studies I have read on employment and education for Hijras is remarkably poor quality, and it doesnt really show that hijras are unfairly excluded.

I think perhaps we could have a non discrimination law that makes sure that these men are not excluded from society because of their gender expression. That they dont face discrimination in public employment or education. In general we need a civil non discrimination law for other groups anyway, I dont think having to go to the high court/ supreme court every time for a violation of A 14, 15,16 is a good remedy.

1. UGC Guidelines clearly mention that if a student withdraws from a university before end of September, then the university is bound to pay to refund the whole money. GNLU is bound by those norms. If they refuse to refund, mention those and threaten to complain to the UGC.

2. NUJS classes are likely to commence from the 3rd week of July for the first years.

Congrats! So with the current NRI rank of yours, you are definitely bound to get NUJS through rank list. As regards to the fee refund paid to GNLU and other miscellaneous colleges, the refund process doesn't happen according to the CLAT refund policy as this process of admission occurs outside the purview of the official CLAT counselling process. So, while the application fee to apply and some miscellaneous compulsory amount will not be refunded, the rest fee to be accepted may or may not be refunded which is at the discretion of individual universities. The NUJS campus is undergoing construction works and renovation due to which the starting of classes has been deferred till August. However, do check it out with the contact of NUJS administration as to when would the counselling and classes begin as you would only get accurate updates from them.

So I'd taken a term insurance policy from LIC, along with an accident rider in a moment of reduced intellectual reasoning. The base policy itself is INR 1Cr and the accident rider is INR 2 Crores. Yeah I know, stupid probably.

What I wanted to know, from those of you who deal in these matters are:

(a) I go cycling, in case I RIP due to a road accident will such insurance rider be denied to policy beneficiaries? Given term insurance is usually denied to persons who go for adventure sports. I wear full gear, helmets and gloves, the whole shebang. Yeah i know cycling in India is unsafe, and personally on each long ride there is one scary moment minimum.

(b) Will my term policy itself be denied if i die because of my cycling?

While I understand specific wordings matter, but as a matter of general practice, what's the market standard?

Hello!

So I am a practising advocate in Corporate Litigation with PQE 1.8 years from a State college. I have Lawctopus and Harvardx certifications and while I know they are not "credible" per say. I genuinely have a lot of honed skills. I can draft contracts, writs, replies from scratch. I have appeared before High Court, Distt Courts, State Consumer Redressal, Human Rights Commission regularly.

How can I get a job at a well paying corporate/ litigation firm?

Now I'm not asking whether I can do it. I'm asking how can I go through with it.

Tell your employer. You can work as a trainee for a year or so with a condition that if you don't get your id by then, there would be re-assessment of your employment at that time - shouldn't matter to your employer. If you don't tell the truth now, it may jeopardize your career if they find out later.