Club pays yearly rent of Rs. 1000. Expectation is that they will use it to create sports facilities for people in the locality. However, till date it remains an exclusive club and the public objective of providing sports facilities to public at large (because of which it is getting the lease on a nominal rent) remains unfulfilled.

Hence this! Fully endorse this move!

"The tribunal observed that the club, "under the garb of distinctive character which is a relic of the Imperial past", was restricting membership to those "having blue blood in their veins thereby perpetuating apartheid and shattering the most cherished constitutional goal of securing social justice and equality of status and opportunity"."

"The club sits on 27 acres of prime Lutyens' Delhi land, leased from the government at a nominal rent of Rs 1,000 a year. Yet inspections found that only a tiny fraction of its spending went towards sports, while substantial sums were allegedly spent on hospitality expenses, including "wines and cigarettes". Decades of waitlist, membership fees in lakhs that was collected without interest, and alleged family fiefdoms eventually prompted an intervention by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT)."

Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/delhi-gymkhana-takeover-bureaucrats-ias-ips-court-battle-delays-elections-nclat-supreme-court-7-lok-kalyan-marg-2905053-2026-05-23

All these elite clubs have are on leased public land (which btw belongs to you and me as much as it belongs to a club member); and are paying far below market rate prices for the lease. Anything given below market rate should benefit the entire public. These gymkhanas should serve as sports centres for all the people rather than the rich (considering they are paying below market rate prices for the lease and have leased it for the "public" and the "good of the public", i.e., health).

If they still want to have exclusive places, then pay the market rate bitch

"The thing with clubs in Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai is that they give memberships to a broader cross section of society, plus corporate memberships."

No, they do not. 1 crore+ fee in many Mumbai clubs is certainly not accessible to "broader cross section of society"

Read this article by Karan Thapar. It will give you the root cause of the tensions and why Modi wants to teach them a lesson. Karan Thapar has been consistently writing articles against the BJP since they entered the Delhi gymkhana management a few years ago. This is what he snootily writes, while discussing a club in Calcutta:

“I had been invited to talk to members of the Bengal Club. It’s a world apart from the Punjabi dhabas that Delhi’s clubs have been reduced to. Here, the British connection is fondly cherished, painstakingly maintained, and thoroughly enjoyed.”

This dig is directed at certain people from the BJP who entered the Delhi gymkhana management roughly during the Covid era.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-good-life-of-the-raj-in-a-calcutta-hotel-and-club-101725724069329-amp.html

The thing with clubs in Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai is that they give memberships to a broader cross section of society, plus corporate memberships. But Delhi Gym and Golf Club have been monopolised by the Congress ecosystem and memberships dominated by Congressi netas, babus, defence deal fixers, journalists etc. Corporate memberships generally not permitted. This is why the BJP people are pissed off and even many elite professionals (outside the Congress ecosystem) don’t like the club.

Several clubs came up during the British Raj as exclusive watering holes for the British and then extended to Anglo Indians and Brit loving Anglicised natives. Some elites felt shorted and apparently became very nationalistic and set up their own networking zones. Posh plots got leased out or enlarged for a song. The governing philosophy as elite zones for the cognoscenti didn't change just because Independence happened.

How the "public" benefitted is extremely debatable other that tall tales.

Here is a nuggets from Kolkata. Two prominent (essentially golf) clubs are prime properties which belonged to erstwhile estate of Tipu Sultan when his family was exiled to Kolkata just like Nawab of Lucknow.

The earnings from the leases to the club is supposed to be used for the descendants and public welfare. Forget Tipu and his folks or how had/good he was etc.

Successive WB govts, the self proclaimed seculars ever concerned with minority welfare or their supposed communal opposition (and now the ruling party here) did absolute zilch when it came to following the money.

I request anyone interested to find out how much these two clubs as annual lease fees to the WB govt and the current bump. Then compare with the land value appreciation across all these years. Okay the last 50 years. Or just the last 15 years.

Do the same for other well known Kolkata clubs. Don't be surprised if you get similar numbers for Delhi or Mumbai.

Forget the Iran War, forget the economy. This is the #1 topic of conversation among top lawyers in the country right now. I kid you not! People are wondering if top counsels like Sibal, AMS etc will appear pro bono and challenge this.

Meanwhile, here is a media interview of Supreme Advocate Riya Sachthey, who is a third generation member of the club. Her suggestion is that an alternative space can be created for third generation members like her. She is making the point that Mumbai and Kolkata have such clubs too.

https://x.com/ANI/status/2058214830851653993

The BCL has always been superior to the Cambridge LLM, but in the last few years, the Cambridge LLM has become an utter joke. I have been in Cambridge long enough to see the quality of students deplete by the year. You will find a nice cross-section of Indian law students that stops short of only Meerut Law College. There are people here who were not even in the top 10 of their undergrad cohorts, whereas at Oxford exceeding the top 3 is a rarity. It is quite fun though--more time to party, and academic rigour is optional, that is, you can exercise the option of not working and getting the degree or working and getting nothing in particular to make you stand apart from your two-hundred-strong batch. At any rate, if you did not get into Oxford this year, chances are that you never will, so welcome to mediocrity at Cambridge!

As a 2nd year law student from a private uni at Bangalore, you should first look for internships at chambers rather than directly jumping into law firms with gen corp or disputes practice. After one lit internship, target boutique law firms in gen corp, few firms like almt, md&t to start with and then scale up and mail other t2's and T1's in Bangalore. This would be the ideal way to have a strong resume by your final year.

As someone myself who Interned with a tech startup in Bangalore for 3 months, I would not recommend you to start with an In-house role. If you have options, definetely without a doubt start at a law firm as ultimately even if you want to get into an Inhouse role, your PQE of 2-3 years would allow you to start as a manager in a tech related in-house role. Otherwise, if starting your career at an in-house, you'll not only take long to climb up the hirearchy, but also limit your understanding of the transactions taking place by only focusing to one businesses needs. Thus, start at a firm and move to in-house with better pay and role after a few years of law firm practice.

Hello folks, I know a fact that time has significantly passed out for my batch talking about placements, but my resume is a solid mixture of various practice areas mostly in Tier 1's across bangalore along with a long term legal Internship at an Fintech.

Given the current scenario, if any of you have any idea of firms(T1s & T2s) in Bangalore looking for any Trainee or Assessment Intern, could you please name the firm and the team which is looking to hire for these roles. Given my multi practice exposure, I can easily be a good fit or atleast be taken to Interview stage and tested for my knowledge in the given area.

Please throw some light on firms still actively hiring for BO'26 from Bangalore?????!!!!!!!!

It is a tiered issue. Jats vs Rajputs vs Brahmins. All of them against Yadav. Yadav vs Meena. But Meena vs Gurjar. Everyone against Banjara. Al. If then against Muslim. But Sunni vs Shia. Layered with Ashrafi vs Pasmanda.

And the game goes on. True the British played their part. But we started playing well before they or the Mughals came in. And we are still at it. Will not and cannot stop. It has been on for 5000 years.

Because a certain section of the society wants to be beneficiaries of legitimized discrimination (aka reservation) in view of some vague, unscientific, woke, abstract concepts such as "historical injustice", for perpetuity. Asking them to compete on merits would be violative of "social justice".

This should have happened long ago and yet nothing will change. There should be a cap on reservation hierarchy. People who's grandparents, then parents are civil servants are taking reservation. I mean come on now ! You've had two successive generations in the highest bureaucratic post in India and still you are taking reservation from the one who's a first gen. I truly believe, preference reservation should be given, especially in government jobs. So if you're a first gen, you should get the first dibs in reservation, then second gen and then third. After which reservation should not be given. Isn't this almost similar to a monarchy where the third generation is still benefiting when they've been ruling for two generations. Especially in Group A services ?

This is not abolishing reservation but spreading it to others especially the first generation who have not received the benefits even today.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danneidle_pinsent-masons-catastrophic-reliance-on-activity-7463959312000913408-vuQ5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADbobP8BYXYimSxP3fuldWAbtZ_1ddV7Saw

Hope this helps.

I absolutely agree. Ten years ago one of my batchmates became an assistant professor without even NET. He did a masters from an NLU and got the job. He said there were barely 10 candidates and he was the only one with a LLM from an NLU (tier 2). Today I have a PHD+JRF from a tier 1 NLU and I still haven't gotten a call back. Could you imagine !!

He went straight to teaching with just an LLM. I went through net,then JRF, then PhD and now I don't have anything to show for and he already has a 8-9 year long career. This is utter BS!!!

Sanjeev wil do zilch. Maybe he will agree to have CAG audit al the Shree schemes of the TMC govt. But I doubt he will actually rock the boat despite the rhetoric. He will be too busy figuring out how to bring in big ticket investments and managing headline expenses. Ofc optics will be there.

Ideally the new govt should appoint a full time team of expert investigators and lawyers to pursue and dismantle the organised loot that took place.

Nalsar’26 here. Please stop jerking off to CID and doze off brother. Satiate your hunger for conspiracies by watching random “9/11 was an inside job” videos, there is ample information available explaining exactly how the accident happened. There’s nothing to speculate or coverup. Please get a life.

I am from a minority group and attend an elite university. I can tell you, from my experience and those of loads of others whom I know who are minorities as well, that it is nowhere close to 95% reformed. Please do not spread ill-informed opinions as though they were gospal, because the only part of your statement which is correct is that the entire world was less inclusive at one point.

But it's extremely difficult to get a PPO or job offer from their Calcutta office. The partners have high expectations and justifiably so, because the team is lean and the work is sophisticated. So if your aim is to get a PPO, it is recommended to intern in their Delhi, Mumbai or Bangalore offices where its rolled out quite easily.