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Just as the US Supreme Court has abolished affirmative action so should we. These policies have no place in 21st century India.
Can someone please let me what is the average package for a fresher law graduate from private college if I am opting for out of campus placement? I feel depressed listening to 3-4 lakhs package. Like I expect minimum around 8-10 lakh for this 5 years degree
Your batchmates know nothing. theyre throwing around words they dont even know what it means really. This is what every teacher who teaches first year will tell you- the job is doubly hard because you have to correct misconceptions and then teach the right thing. chill. Read history/ social sciences/ politics/ fiction books before university. Theres plenty of time to learn torts.
And for god sakes, stop sending connection requests to partners.
1. Do NOT post stupid posts like "happy to share I have received an internship offer from xyz", or "share your new position" as an intern with your "network". Only one kind of post is decent enough for people not to hate you and that's a post-internship post where you thank folks in your team and HR and summarise what you did or learnt. Please don't be cringy enough to upload your internship certificates either as posts or in your profile.
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5. Please never use the word "ante-penultimate" for 3rd year.
Even assuming it's inr it's probably best to do your own research and not look for answers on LI.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature
I want a wfh/ hybrid work setup which is not possible in litigation hence the question.
How do you know what direction progress is in? How are you so certain because someone claimed they were "most marginalised" ? Many brahmins will claim theyre the most marginalised caste group in the country- will you believe them also or will you put that claim to the same scrutiny gender ideology is being put to here?
Why should any feminism- let alone radical feminism- include or cater to men? What is wrong with being a terf? Why should women always make room for men even within their own movement? Do you resent labour movements for excluding capitalists?
Before you pronounce that others have a lot to learn- consider that you might not have omniscient knowledge of everything. And consider that people have gone and educated themselves and come to different conclusions than you. A little intellectual humility goes a long way.
No. You do better. Misogyny is all this is.
1) People first language was pioneered by disability rights activists- someone isnt just lame or blind- its a person with ambulatory/ visual disabilities. To be clear- I have no problem with that. You dont even know the history of this rhetoric. The reason trans activists want us to use "pregnant people" "people with cervixes" etc- is because they want us to play along with the delusion that men can give birth or that women can have penises. Thats just not true- the only coherent explanation of the words man and woman is- adult human male, adult human female. Thats it. Everything else is social stereotype and gender expression- go on then- define for me what a man or a woman is without resorting to a circular definition.
The research into pain im talking about is absolutely limited to adult human females- women. men cannot get pregnant- they dont have ovaries or uteruses. the reason that research was not done- was because women's pains and problems were dismissed as whinging and at worse- as hysteria by male dominated medical industry in the past. nothing to do with any trans people- women- adult human females. It wouldnt have changed if the women had butched it up, had double mastectomies and changed their pronouns.
Being an adult human female is not a medical condition. Being an adult human female is about the normal thing for half the people in this world. Without women no body would be alive. to reduce being a woman to "pregnant person" suggests that pregnancy is a malady one is going through which is not the case. Pregnancy is just a part of life. And the problems women face when pregnant dont end at birth. Have you heard of post partum depression? Do you even know what happens to womens bodies and how long it takes to recover post pregnancy?
babies dont at random choose which parent will gestate them- its always the adult human female- the woman. No body in my family or in any family I know has been born from a male- do you know any?
Calling adult human females "pregnant persons" treats them as individuals that do not belong to a collective identity. They absolutely have a collective identity- women. And they deserve that identity to be able to speak about their collective suffering. To not allow them to do so in order to please men is misogynistic.
Not only that- thinking of pregnancy as a transient condition that could afflict anyone at random mischaracterises it. its part of being a woman- its not a singular event- and all women and only women are affected by laws and policies regarding pregnancy. Trans-women cannot get pregnant or have abortion- they are male- they are adult human males- men. Sorry if that hurts feelings- but its not kind to lie to people experiencing distress.
2) We cannot include "non binary" "intersex" and "trans" all along with women because the world isnt divided into men and everyone else- thats an incredibly sexist way of looking at the world. adult human females- women- form most of the planet- they form their own damn category. The best argument for non binary is that a person exists whose soul is not masculine or feminine- congratulations sweetheart none of the rest of us have masculine or feminine souls either- youre just as special as everyone else. Even if I get past the fact that the existence of souls is not proven, why would a soul have a gender that is so culturally specific? do american non binary souls wear skirts and indian non binary souls wear sarees? its all nonsense.
"Non binary" asserts that there are souls and that for a few special people their souls have no culturally specific gender. I would assert that gender roles and stereotypes are nonsense. No one really feels all masculine or all feminine all the time. Everyone is nonbinary in their personality- that doesnt mean youre not a male or a female and it doesnt mean you wont be a boy/man or a girl/ woman depending on age. Its incredibly cruel to think other people lack the rich inner life you think you have.
Same with trans- there is no such thing as being born in the wrong body- you only get one body in this world- who elses body should you have been born in? There is only non conforming behavior- and im all for it. If youre a girl and you want to do traditionally masculine things- go on. You have full support. Become a bus driver, join the army, do sports, be the bread winner. If youre a boy and you want to do traditionally feminine things- dance in the ballet or wear sarees or spend your time playing with dolls- go for it. Id fully support you. But that feeling doesnt make you the opposite sex. That feeling doesnt mean you have to get disastrous operations or get hormones which will shred your body. And that feeling doesnt mean that males can be women. Catering to those feelings over the material concerns of women is the definiton of misogyny.
Which exact trans people and non binary people are included in "pregnant people" ? are they adult human females? then they are women. Thats all there is to it. Im not trying to exclude people. You are. You think women are not women if they like to do manly things or have masculine interests. I see the butchest lesbian in the world and I just think shes a woman. Because in my book being a woman is not a dirty thing.
3) I have said not one thing about traditional parenting roles you numpty. Are you really this thick? This allegation is made in such incredible bad faith I have to say it causes outrage. To say women birth and nurture their babies from their body isnt to say that women should stay home and take care of kids or that men should go to work and be emotionally distant. Youre setting up a false binary- either women are bound to behave one way because of biology- or biology is irrelevant. As with most things in human nature- biology and socialisation are intertwined, and one can figure out if biology needs to determine individual life choices or shackle sex classes to gender roles.
My mother worked most of my life and my dad stayed home to take care of us- that didnt mean she wasnt my mother anymore- she had given birth to me and nourished me from her body. Thats all im saying. You are the one imposing gender roles and telling people " if you dont want to act according to these gender roles- maybe you should try to change sex and claim you have a different sexed soul".
I dont think taking care of ones own children is dreadful miserable unpaid labour. I think theres plenty of joy to be found in taking care of ones own children and plenty of fulfillment. I want to live in a world where women dont have to pay a penalty for having children with employment- but I dont see womanhood as a curse. You do.
What man are you talking about that can get pregnant and doesnt have a penis? is that person female? is she an adult human? how do you explain what a man is if he does not have small gametes that could produce sperm? You have confused sex and gender roles and gender stereotypes so much it has lapsed into incoherence. Only adult human females- women- can get pregnant. I dont care about claims about special gender souls- most religious people think they have special souls that doesnt make their religions literally true.
Do you even know what intersex is? there are essentially 5 different types of conditions- disorders of sexual development- where a baby might be born who doesnt have strictly xx or xy chromosomes. this may be any number of combinations, xxy, xyy, xy but with genital defects, xx with genital defects- whatever. Intersex is as far from trans as paralympians are from those guys who have phantom leg syndrome or famine victims are from bulimics. there is no belief claim with intersex people. theyre not claiming they can be women if they say so, theyre not saying they have special non-binary gender souls. They have medical conditions which- in most cases- people dont even know they have this genetic defect- they carry on just fine. In cases where there is a visual bodily defect- people do get tested and find out that they have a chromosomal abnormality. There is an all too easy way to resolve that- if you have y chromosomes- youre a male. And if you have only x chromosomes- youre female. thats it.Thank you for coming to ted talk. However they want to dress or present themselves is fine- but they should know- if they have y chromosomes theyre not female and they cannot get pregnant. It is disgusting that you want to coopt people with genuine medical conditions into this crazy gender soul movement that wants to hurt women.
Our legal system doesnt need to recognise intersex individuals because 1) most intersex individuals wont know thats what they are- and 2) those that do- still fit into the male female binary. There are no rights that they do not have that other people have. If they are violated without consent by quacks when they are babies- that is assault and medical malpractice. A legal remedy already exists.
You can keep trying to "correct" me. Cause I know the possibility of a woman engaging in "wrongthink" is awful to you and you need to correct them as if theyre too stupid to understand your complicated (read:bullshit) philosophy or religion. But what you cannot do is claim im the insensitive one when you dont want adult human females- women- to have language to speak about their suffering and their rights as a sex class. You think butch lesbians are not women because you define womanhood by adherence to outdated stereotypes. Why do you dislike women or something? Why do you want women to not exist?
1. The OP didn't mention they're being "made to read it", much less in a coaching centre. Why would you just assume that? Because when you were in 12th you didn't read anything other than prescribed course materials?
2. Palkhivala's book is still a cited source for tax law, and his arguments in landmark cases are still frequently referred to and remembered. He is still very much taken seriously in some fields and I don't know why people are hellbent upon proving otherwise.
3. If you took your head out of your behind you might have realised the book is ABOUT Palkhivala and not BY him (the OP is mistaken but they are a class 12 kid, you should be better you elitist). A biography of a stalwart lawyer might have some takeaways or at least fun/cool anecdotes. In any case, if his views are as you've described, then it's better to suggest someone to read and think critically about them (perhaps also by reading alternate, critical works) than telling them to bury them.
4. Caste Matters is a sociology book on caste, how is it a suitable alternative to the biography of one lawyer? At least if you'd suggested Waiting for a Visa as an alternative biographical read I could have taken you seriously
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If the Gujarat HC CJ's son is in NUJS shouldn't she have better idea about how NLU admins actually function. How did she miss the hoodwinks by the univ and state admins? Still, she is on a better wicket.
Look at how NLUJ played the HC and SC with the alleged murder case. Or IIT Kharagpur playing the Cal HC.
NUJS had its first review commission after 15 years! Wonder why the "stalwart trio" never bothered with the statutory obligation. Worse, why did the worthies including the Chancellor, gracing the GC/EC never bothered. Be that as it may, under student pressure the review took place. Whatever little "criticism/reality" seeped into the Report was due to intrepid students.
The Report snowballed into PIB and Co exits. Here too an Assistant Prof was handpicked as Registrar. But with PIB exit, he was smart enough to read the writing on the wall. So, he scooted and was later brought back by NKC. Maybe the potential of review reports to cause regime change had a chilling effect.
But the regime change had no effect on NUJS' terminal slide. Revival is unlikely if the usual business rules apply, which likely will.
As for screen reader recommendations, I use Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA). This is free to download (you get an optional donate dialogue box, which you can skip without impairing any software functionalities, as far as I know at least) and the only screen reader I have used properly. The most common choices of screen reader for blind people (on windows at least) are NVDA and Job Access With Speech (JAWS) (this latter requires payment, but I believe there is a free trial version). If you wanted to carry out an accessibility test of LI, you could try downloading NVDA and/or JAWS and reproducing this.
We didn't realise that there was a difference in the the comments section when signed in vs as a guest from the homepage (I presume?). Will see whether we can reproduce this!
Is there a specific screenreader software you would recommend to use on Windows, Mac or Linux for reproducing the website usability issues, or are they all fairly similar in capability and any of them would work?
That said, the mods have generally done a great job on this thread, you missed nothing interesting, and thank you to all readers for asking interesting questions and to OP for the amazingly patient and insightful responses.
Thank you also for your feedback on the screenreader UX issues. We'll see if we can reproduce and fix this.
Maybe its not awkward but it seems it would be time consuming for sure.
With editing as well, yes it does help to hear your work read aloud some times, but more often than not I need to see the different paragraphs and how theyre structured when I edit. I move around sentences a lot and it would be annoying to me if I couldnt see and had to rely on screen reader to know whats going on. Perhaps im not taking into account how well people can adapt.
In any case Im glad you find these tasks to be doable and not too cumbersome. Good Luck to you! and thanks for answering stupid questions!
Second, I am sorry we didn't get to read your (non-abusive, of course) pun! Laughter is always a nice way to smash barriers, of whatever type. Call me ghoulish if you like, but I actually kind of want to read some of those comments marked "trollish" and placed into the "unpublished" pipeline by mods (out of a morbid sense of curiosity just to see how badly those people would have embarrassed themselves if they had been published) :)). Also, I am glad that you seem to have learned/taken away something useful from this yourself.
2. I do all my academic work by typing on a laptop, just like how the vast majority of students these days would, with the only difference being that I have a piece of software (called a 'screen reader') that reads out everything I type and everything else on the screen to me as well.
When Gandhi protested British rule he went to jail for it. People who really believe in their cause are willing, even eager, to suffer consequences for their activism. The kids at columbia arent that. They dont understand or really believe in their own slogans- they just wanted to do social justice coachella and be rebels for a week- and now theyre upset when the adults they were calling murderers wont make concessions for them.
The police was called after protestors were told several times that it was an illegal emcampnet and they must evacuate. The police was called because a university building was taken over illegally by radical actors.
Criminals dont get to ask that the people they robbed should sponsor their bail.
Get a life.