Lets discuss everything that is wrong with this proposal- CJI Surya Kant Calls Retired Judges Stepwells Of Wisdom, Urges Structured Role After Retirement

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/chief-justice-of-india-surya-kant-bats-for-utilising-experience-of-former-judges-in-adr-3980869#google_vignette

Team is generally good, people are reasonable, but Tanu has high expectations. Work is a mix of TMT advisory & M&A in media. Sometimes work is round the clock as in any Tier 1.

Ishan Johri is newly promoted to Partner in the team. She can be a bit tough to navigate.

Working directly with Tanu if you are very junior, might not come by easily, but if it happens you will learn a lot in few interactions.

Overall the work is good and the team culture is decent.

The order is justified and the posts have no proof to back their allegations. Is there any proof she made Meta block anti-BJP posts and promoted pro-Congress posts? None. ZERO. Any proof her husband took orders from the Congress and influenced her work at Meta? None. ZERO. Also, let's remember that Gen Z is overwhelmingly left-liberal in orientation and social media is dominated by Gen Z. So it's but natural that social media will be a left-liberal echo chamber.

This sounds pretty bleak Ma'am!

If I may ask, why do you continue on this path?

The obvious answer is money, but surely at your level you must have enough saved up to switch to a less intense yet well paid job (maybe not as well paying as your current one but well paying nonetheless), in order to gain some extra time to spend with your family and your child, especially in his formative years.

Is there any particular reason you choose to go on like this?

Wishing you the very best!

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If you're in the boys hostel which is legit violent or used to be anyway, you need friends to help you through. Otherwise, try not to sweat small stuff that looks big right now. Many of us had a really hard time at Nalsar, but everything settles on the other side. Find coping mechanisms like something you enjoy and low investment easy hangs with classmates like a chai ritual, music, or some kind of sport on walking. That helps you bond without accidentally trauma dumping on them. If you are having a hard time with family, a nalsar degree might mean the financial independence that sets you free. Think about the long term.

The nalsar you probably were a part of is no more. The batches on campus have the reputational entitlement but do not want to be responsible enough to keep that reputation going. Mediocre set of people who are mostly always using AI to get through exams and projects, without any semblance of realisation about the larger implications of this culture of convenience that has seeped into the college. Batch of 2026 is particularly to blame, they want the "respect" of being seniors but have never acted like good seniors, always encouraging people to drink away/take it chill. A course correction is urgently required. Even alums are starting to realise the deteriorating quality of the batches and have raised concerns.

Would give you a honest breakdown of the hierarchy, and welcome thoughts to the contrary:
Tier 1: Mihir Thakore (Top of the food chain for sure), Kamal Trivedi, Mihir Joshi, Nirupam Nanavati, Shalin Mehta and Saurabh Soparkar (Depends on the matter, but per appearance charges from 2.5 to 4.5+ lakhs)
Tier 1.5: Sudhir Nanavati (Well-connected), Rashesh Sanjanwala, Dhaval Dave and the like

Tier 2: Manish Bhatt and the like

Tier 3: Anshin Desai, Percy Kavina, etc.

Tier 4: New Seniors, such as Devang Nanavati, A.S. Vakil etc.

You are absolutely right. Kapil has achieved all his professional and monetary goals, and more. The reason he is still in the game, so to speak, is that he recognizes the Congress, its allies, and the broader left-liberal ecosystem have drifted — not only toward ideals with limited electoral resonance, but also into a culture of Rahul Gandhi yes-men, institutional decay, and political ineptitude.

Why does that matter? Because political parties do not operate in a vacuum. It is simply not feasible to run a serious political party on declared donations alone. Political organization and campaigning require enormous resources. Successful parties in India are sustained through a complex, often hidden web of vested interests, patronage networks, and businesses that underwrite them; politicians themselves often have substantial stakes in these ecosystems. When a major political formation declines, the consequences are not confined to election results.

Sibal, I suspect, recognizes that his prospects of securing a political mandate and executive portfolio are dim at this stage of life. He is therefore doing the next best thing: first, arguing before the Hon’ble Supreme Court those causes that are, in his view, the more defensible ones aligned with his side; and second, using his YouTube channel Dil Se as a kind of liberal baithak — a forum where an earnest effort is made to produce what one might call A-grade anti-BJP propaganda. I use propaganda advisedly; all politics has its narratives. His effort, at least, seems directed at making the counter-narrative more rigorous rather than merely reflexive — even if anyone with a reasonably informed grasp of history and politics can still poke holes in much of what is advanced through that channel.

And what is in it for those of us with no political affiliation? Some measure of check and balance. However imperfect, such efforts can serve as a counterweight to a ruling dispensation that is too often exercises its writ without sufficient inclusivity or foresight.

1. Basically, a lot of the scholarships (a) are set aside basis of financial aid for UK households; and (b) are of small amounts (a couple thousand pounds here and there).

2. Or alternatively, you might have scholarships for specific things like exceptional performance in your academic studies prior to coming to your UK university (or even exceptional performance while you are there) or other things, like if you want to practice or do pro bono volunteering in specific areas. Again, not very large amounts, at most a few thousand pounds.

It really depends on what arrangement(s) each uni has. Look up the LLB funding websites of various unis and see what you can avail yourself of.

Also, a trap to avoid: Many unis have a degree called the "LLB Senior Status". A two-year, faster version of the typical three year programme. Avoid at all costs. You need time to learn certain things, and two years usually isn't enough for that. Plus, while this wouldn't apply to you because of your Indian degree, the BCI does not recognise two-year qualifications, at least from what I last heard - haven't kept up with the rules because I am continuing to do stuff in the UK post LLB and the thought of having to go back is not really on the cards for me.

OP, don't engage with people who write such comments. Somehow, anybody who wants to do any sort of study in the UK makes many Indian lawyers very angry. Kicks off inferiority complexes in their heads. Just leave them alone. If you can succeed, you can succeed. If not, then not. They don't matter either way. On either side of that equation, they are just irritating noise. Leave them alone.

This comment shows a very, very poor grasp indeed of the reality of how the UK legal market works. It is true that there may not be a "requirement" for an undergrad and yes, it is true that at many of the big firms, about 50% of their recruitment is done from applicants with non-law degrees.

However, remember those are people with UK non-law degrees. A partner at one of the MC firms, for example, has a degree in ancient history from UCL. Others are clacisists from Oxford. You haven't taken into account the British sense of insularity: with a foreign law degree, especially a non-top-five NLU one (read: a degree from a not-good university), it is hard to place you - gage where you are, etc. And anything that falls into that bracket is, in the majority of cases, easier to reject (from the point of view of a law firm graduate recruitment officer or partner unless there is substantial good stuff in other aspects of the profile), especially when that means "non-NLU". This blind recruitment stuff is increasingly happening, but not as common as pro-social mobility advocates would like. Remember all their talk about "social mobility" and broadening the base of universities they recruit from and so on is (1) the world's best packaged bullshit (the statistics speak for themselves - see who are the majority of folks getting into UK law firm jobs and promoted, people with UK Russell Group LLB or non-law degrees followed by SQE/PGDL etc); and (2) to the extent it is said in good faith and something they intend to do, that applies far more to their own context (Russell Group vs. non-RG and so on) rather than to our contexts. Indeed, they have reasons not to want to broaden their social mobility talk to our jurisdiction: already UK employers are getting blasted by politicians/the government about relying on foreign recruitment. Knowing how desperate Starmer is to show like he's clamping down on immigration, were I him and were I to hear that law firms are talking about social mobility in recruitment from non-UK jurisdictions, I would: (1) go to Nigel Farage's constituency office in Clacton-on-Sea; (2) hand him the keys to Downing Street; and (3) flee the country (or if I had a more traditional soldier-like sense of honour, ask the tough guys at the SAS base in Herefordshire for some of their pretty toys and use one of them to blow my brains out). That's how out of touch the writer of this comment is with the UK environment.

As for the non-law degree students themselves, I have myself observed the dynamics around those, having done a UK LLB and having run a student society at my uni dedicated to helping non-law students get into city law firm careers. The knowledge and skills gaps in most cases are quite significant and unless a particular non-law applicant were to be absolutely amazing in various ways, it would be very hard for them to get a TC. Were this applicant (I will use the word "applicant" instead of the social media slang "OP" for the sake of sophistication) to have the kind of background they do topped up by a UK LLB, they wouldn't be as hard to place. They would have some fancy stuff on their profiles which typical UK law students don't have, which would make it easier for them to get experiences that even UK law students with good profiles are fighting like cats and dogs for.

Finally, these master's programmes you mention? They are, at the end of the day, master's programmes. They are called master's programmes - and not regulated by the SRA's barrister counterpart, the BSB - for a reason. Because they are academic programmes. They don't help you get into a UK law firm job. Either better to do an NLU law degree like NLSIU BALLB and get in the way those kids do (and those guys are quite smart, so therefore can directly apply to vac schemes) without the bother of an LLM, or better to do something like what this applicant is contemplating.

There might be many reasons that this applicant might find what they are contemplating an unattractive course of action: immigration uncertainties, the rise of Farage, the UK economy being in a sorry state... but this logic needs much more problematising and scrutiny than what it is receiving.

PS: Sorry for the strong language in para 2 above. One of the things that irritates me about India is that many people seem to have a very flawed understanding of how the UK works and yet they are taken as experts. This included yours truly BTW, before I went there. Might still do so, to a certain extent, I suppose.

I havev achieved a high 100 air in clat, and have been allotted to nlu jodhpur; however I find myself to be quite dissatisfied with this.

While I am entirely aware of nluj's calibre, stellar placements and mooting achievements, I've always been attached to the sheer prestige that schools such as nls and nalsar hold (which nluj simply does not have). I also incidentally happen to be a citizen of the UK, and am expecting around 98% in my board exams, thus making me eligible for the nalsar foreign national quota.

In my case, finances are not an issue (but parents do not believe in "quotas" And insist merit only), and I believe the hefty tuition is worth it for an institution of nalsar's stature. I'm committed to the hustle and am sure of my abilities to earn the money back.

My contention is whether nluj to nalsar is big enough of a jump to justify a 6x fees.

you're right in your conclusion, but grossly wrong in your reasoning. Markets have been showing a downward trend post 2023, which was the peak. It just gets worse every year. And no, it is not only about demand and supply. Law firms have billed more in 2025 than in 2022, yet the hirings post these years have been very different. Why? Because of the evolving nature of operationality of law firms. No one wants to be bottom heavy anymore. And with the AI scare and fears of poor economic growth this year, it has only worsened. Supply and demand might have played a role, but quite a small one. Rest is just terrible luck for all of us.

2026 had a much worse placement scene, especially compared to 2025. 2025 was worse than 2024, which was worse than 2023, which was a great year but worse than 2022, which had the most firmwide placements because of the covid economic boom. Its a downward curve from here because in each successive year, retained (experienced) associates aren't moving as much, diminishing the need for new hires, because of a stagnant market.

We Indians hate to speak frankly about important things and trends because we prefer silence and connivance, but it is a known fact that the Indian corporate legal market is over saturated at the mid and high levels and renenue has stagnated too. More partners mean higher cost cutting with clients, and Claude AI is helping new gen partners match in quality without requiring juniors who would've handled the grunt work.

2027 onwards will be exponentially worse because its a vicious cycle as explained above. Firms like to say "Oh we will be shifting to the PPO model!" so they are able to employ free fresh monthly talent without promising in hired numbers. Its a classic strategy.

You wouldnt believe me when I say that in 2022, people were handed out PPOs based on single online internships, even compromising on quality because the markets were defiantly successful and required more labour, (tech/ infra/ lawyers etc). 5 years since, companies are making up excuses to layoff entire teams.

If you are in the 2027+ batches, you must learn to market yourself, as skills and legal knowledge dont suffice anymore. You must market yourself in providing faster product (using latest AI models), efficiently and most importantly better that the others.

(PS Please excuse the grammar, im high rn)

From the Print:

The timing of the disclosure—not the appointments themselves—drew scrutiny.

A secretary-level central government official, who did not wish to be named, questioned the decision to surface the information before formal orders were ready. “Why the hurry to leak the information to the media so late at night? Surely, the government could have waited till the formal orders are out,” the official said.

The appointments come as West Bengal heads towards a tight finish, with the Trinamool Congress government of Mamata Banerjee and the BJP locked in a fierce battle for the state.

https://theprint.in/india/final-phase-of-bengal-polls-days-away-centre-readies-niti-aayog-berths-for-bjp-linked-lahiri-and-das/2913863/?amp

Are Modi-Shah that much confident of the math in Bengal? An outright victory or just short, the latter resulting in them buying MLAs?

From noted economist Kaushik Basu:

“Latest IMF data show Bangladesh’s per capita GDP above India’s. This is shocking given that India used to have a clear lead, & Bangladesh has recently had a lot of turmoil. India must move away from creating slogans & headlines to implementing real policy.”

https://x.com/kaushikcbasu/status/2047858319822365168

Although I am a BJP supporter and detest the Congress and opposition, Prof Basu is spot on here. Nirmala Sitharaman is the worst finance minister ever and PM Modi is turning a blind eye to her failures, sorry to say.

We need reforms on a war footing: aggressive privatisation, lower income tax and LTCG, massive administrative and judicial reforms.

I'm at a t3 boutique firm doing indirect tax. I'm starting at a new place in nearly 3 weeks. I lack fundamental understanding of the law and would love advice on how to quickly bring myself upto pace of an A0. I know it can seem unrealistic, but something is better than nothing!