She is amazing no doubt. Not sure whether she'll become bigger than KS or AJ. They were in their own leagues, and she would surely grow to be in there. But there honestly isn't anything bigger than them - and if there is, it would be the likes of the dather of UU Lalit, FS Nariman, R Jethmalani, Barry Sen, Ashok Sen, Soli Sorabjee, etc, who were all much more senior. Perhaps much much later, or perhaps never.

This is honestly so sad. No doubt she is a great senior advocate, even better lawyer, and one can't stop complimenting her on her achievements and everything. However, a ticket from tmc is awful. Yes, a lawyer can represent anyone and following the cab rank rule, a lawyer should not say no to anyone per se. She can obviosuly choose to represent whoever she wants to. But to go on a ticket from that? That's a complete 180 on moral principles

Tweet from AM Singhvi. Comes at a time he himself is lobbying for an RS seat and needs support of as many parties as possible. 😊

Congrats to all the 4 #TMC#RS nominees. 3 of the 4 I know personally. Have been consistently and continuously representing #RajivKumar ex #DGP in court over last several years. #MenakaGuruswamy has worked with me on diverse court battles and is a valued colleague at the Bar. #Supriyo I know lesser, but always a pleasant person to chat to in #RS. All the best to all 4. And above all congrats to #Didi.

https://x.com/DrAMSinghvi/status/2027530230760616063

If by not being "interested in academics" you mean people in NALSAR are uninterested in an academic career, then I am not surprised at all. After all, tell me: other than in NLS, which law school in India genuinely inspires its students to go for academia? At the end of the day, with half-baked papers (half of those plagiarised/written with Chatgpt), teachers reading from slides instead of genuinely teaching, even the good teachers being overburdened with teaching workload, with even people who apply for PhDs spam-applying because they don't know what to do instead of being genuinely wanting to do academia (I will never believe that 650 applications to DU Faculty of Law for PhD in one year, a number I recently heard, is an indicator of that much genuine academia aspiration!!) and with research and writing being seen, as Sudhir might say, like a bonus + bonus instead of an essential quality of a law prof... where in the country do we have a law school where the genuinely rigorous thinkers and academics aren't the exception?

Well for years they chased everyone competent away. Now they have a ▮▮▮ one impressive new hire who obviously cares more about his centre than teaching.

This didn’t start with new VC. This started a longtime ago - attrition was always high especially among well credentialed faculty who had options. The only ones who stayed had no where to go.

Students expected number 2 label to remain constant and hoped they’d get jobs based on stolen glory. But what yall don’t realise is every recruiter out there can see difference batch by batch . They can tell where nls kids are where yall are. And there’s no set quota they’ve promised to hire from Nalsar or nujs or nls or anything. In fact depending on how good AI gets and how stagnant yall get over the next couple of years - they might not need to hire many at all.

Everyone is inherently selfish, and the legal profession often brings out the worst in people.

So I understand that just because it is inconvenient for you, you might say, “it doesn’t work.” But for students in their 3rd, 4th, or 5th year, don’t worry, it does work.

It worked for me when I was in law school, and I am now an associate at a Tier-1 firm. All my internships came through cold emailing. I personally know hundreds of others for whom it worked as well. For a partner, it may feel like a nuisance. But your job as a student is not to worry about the partner. Be as self-interested about your career as they are about their practice. For them, your internship application is insignificant. They have larger priorities. For you, at this stage, securing an internship is one of the most important things. So cold email, cold call, walk in and drop your CV. Do whatever works for you.

PS: Law firm HRs are the most incompetent people I have seen in my life.

As an Intern with a PPO at a t1 from a tier 10 law school, apply to every partner you can, even assuming 95% wont care, if your profile is good you will get a t1 internship at every firm, I made into SAM,KCO,AZB and landed a ppo at Trilegal because of cold emailing partners.

That being said do not spam any partner more than once and at max one follow up and only apply to firms which have a resonable chance at picking you up, do not spam t1's with less than 5-6 internships on your cv if you are not from a t1 law school.

This comment sums up part of the leadership in this team extremely accurately. The seniors in this team are not leaders - they are simply older individuals who feel entitled to behave with and treat juniors however they wish and as per their whims and fancies. Some end up getting the short end of the stick (which are the antagonised juniors you refer to). Some are affected by it only positively (the “favourites” which are being referred to across this thread). I’m sure there performance is linked to this in some strange way. But there are definitely people who don’t do much except delegate and are perceived as high performers. Also the difference in treatment from partners is so stark that it becomes unjustifiable. You are absolutely correct in saying that this is not the culture of the firm. ▮▮▮ Seniors quite literally talk about the juniors in this team like they are inanimate objects (“why don’t you USE xyz for this transaction” and not “why don’t you take the assistance of XYZ”). Unfortunately, there are a few rotten apples in this team who are really well positioned and this destroys the environment for the rest of us. There are definitely some wonderful seniors in the team and there is a lot to learn from them. But there are some people which manage to take away so much from those positive experiences and really ruin the entire experience because of their unchecked behaviours. Really hoping that some solution is figured out by the leadership.

With respect, this seems to set up a false choice between Dicey-level scholarship and “amateurish bilge.”

By that logic, no undergraduate should write, publish, litigate, or even publicly reflect until they have completed advanced training in jurisprudence, research methods, comparative constitutional law, human rights, and international law. But constitutional cultures are not built that way.

You don’t produce serious scholars by asking them to remain silent until they are already fully formed.

Of course, deep reading matters. Of course, methodological training matters. Of course, jurisprudence and constitutional law must speak to each other, and I agree that institutions should do far more to cultivate that integration.

But engagement is developmental. It is precisely through attempting to write, argue, critique, and sometimes fail that one acquires intellectual discipline. Reading and writing are not sequential stages; they are mutually reinforcing processes.

If we applied your standard historically, how many young lawyers in India would ever have been “qualified” to intervene in constitutional discourse? Government Law College, Mumbai, did not resemble a modern, methodologically intensive research university when it produced H. M. Seervai. Intellectual seriousness did not wait for perfect institutional conditions.

Your institutional questions, however, are well taken:

- - Are jurisprudence and constitutional law taught in an interconnected way?
- - Are research assistantships, clerkships, and law commission roles meaningfully encouraged?
- - Do public law centres genuinely involve students?
- - Are public law career paths institutionally valorised alongside corporate ones?

Those are structural concerns. But they cut both ways. If students are told their early efforts are presumptively “bilge” unless they are the next Dicey, that itself discourages the very culture of constitutional engagement we claim to want.

The goal is not to prematurely produce the next great theorist. It is to ensure that constitutional reasoning remains an active, living part of law school life, not something deferred until one acquires a PhD and methodological certification.

Seriousness should be demanded. Silence should not.

Names deleted: 64 lakh

Names added: 1.83 lakh

Names under adjudication (to be reviewed by judges per SC order): 60 lakh

Difference between TMC and BJP votes in 2024 election: 42 lakhs

https://www.freepressjournal.in/amp/india/election-commission-publishes-final-voters-list-in-bengal-64-lakh-names-deleted-after-sir

Bvp alumni here. Currently working at a decent firm, doing fine for myself, not giving out too much info as there are anyhow very few bvp people who've managed to get into law firms.

My 2 cents on this, in bvp's case I would say do not expect anything from the college except a degrees, can't rely on them for even basic level internship/jobs except for maybe a very select few teacher's pets (dicey even for them tbh). You're literally on your own, this college doesn't give a fuck. But that being said, they're lenient on marks attendance etc, chill place to be. I was able to do shit load of internships (all arranged on my own btw) and eventually get to where I am coz of bvp's chill scene - in a way, being in bvp helped me. One solid plus point over here is that the fees is super affordable especially compared to the bomb sls will cost.

On sls - good name but I'm honestly not sure if it's worth wasting an year, it's no NLU. It'll cost you good money and one extra year - when you're already doing 3 year law (thereby spending one extra year assuming you doing 3+3), not a very great idea.

Lastly, I've had friends/colleagues from sls, in job market we've been treated similarly, no huge advantage for them. At the moment I'm actually making a little bit more than them xD.

One solid advantage of sls - huge alumni network in all firms T1 to T3. Bvp is well, nowhere, bhot dhundhoge toh maybe 5-7 log milenge law firm scene mai.

Yes. Pranayam really helps in Anxiety. Just watch few videos of breath exercise on YT.

Also, it will take 3-4 days for effect and do just 1-2 times a day, it just takes 10 minutes. And you may see relief, genuinely.

Please don't scroll reels and all too much. And avoid using devices. Genuinely it gives instant results. I went on to feel like, take me to PAGALKHANA. But it helped me a bit.

One more thing, if you have any direct issue due to which you are facing all these issues. Please try to resolve it. If not, above may work.

I know I may sound like cleshe. But it works!! Genuinely works!!

Anyone know what is going on ? I am hearing serious rumours about very qualified applicants being passed over and not interviewed. Folks getting interviews when they are relatively inexperienced and not published. Folks being repeatedly invited to apply and then rejected. Nepotistic hiring with folks who worked with the VC and others at previous institutions being preferred. Applications not even being considered if folks currently on faculty don’t “vouch” for the applicants. And about the interview process being a sham.

I always heard a handful of complaints previously but this hiring round I heard this stuff from multiple people in multiple institutions. It’s really made me think the idea of the VC trying to replace old nepotistic practices with merit based hiring might just be a myth.

For what it’s worth - I’ve not applied and nor have I ever applied to nls, but I was considering it in a year or so and now I’m unsure they will have a fair process.

What is the unvarnished truth? Can qualified well published applicants expect a fair hearing even if they don’t have suction with anyone at nls ? Or is it not worth it to apply?

I know a senior friend who is an A3 who is in medication for adhd. He said to me that the work that is interesting and application based is much more suitable for him than dd (Due diligence) work which requires attention to details. Maybe try advisory heavy teams like tech, competition, disputes (to some extend) rather than dd heavy areas like cap marks and GC.

1) No place for growth for lawyers except a few to whom all the work is given/referred, and they are only given credit, promoted in the system with no client of their own.

2) Ambitious people who want to grow in their careers have already left or will leave soon unless the firm rethinks and starts treating everyone in the firm fairly and equally, and remuneration based on merit.

3) The firm has hired and still wishes to hire laterals, but beware, they are left on their own, with no firm support, and then they are compared to other lawyers who do not have their own book and still work on the firm's clients and get remunerated disproportionately higher (more than their revenue). There is no basis for remuneration.

4) No strategy before any hiring is done, and ultimately, lawyers suffer.

The Congress MP quoted in the news report is blaming Modi, but Punjab is under an AAP government! 😂

Reasons for dropping could be:

1. 1984 riots

2. Rajiv Gandhi never completed college himself

3. Not a Punjabi — AAP could rename it after a Punjabi.

https://newsarenaindia.com/states/patiala-law-varsity-clears-move-to-drop-rajiv-gandhi-from-name/71053

I mean stars like Menaka Guruswamy, V Niranjan KC, Akshay Jaitley, Gopal Shankarnarayan, Tarunabh Khaitan, Shamnad Basheer, Sudhir Krishnaswamy etc.

No one from these NLUs has yet reached these heights. It’s true that most other NLUs did not exist when some of the NLSIU luminaries graduated (barring Niranjan, who is younger). But still, the older alumni from NALSAR, NLUJ, NUJS etc will be close to 45 years now. Another 5 -7 years and they will be in their 50s. So fair to speculate whose trajectory is headed there.

Appreciate the objective candor. When you said that he's clear about what he wants to do, any sign of a long-term plan or vision about the place? Is he going to continue all these extra non-law programmes started by the previous VC? Let go of the questionable hires? Get in new people? Asking because you seem to be an insider.

Litigator, 2 PQE, not even remotely interested in corporate.

Is there anything I can do where I am not surrounded by the most passive-aggressive b.tch-ss people to ever exist ??? I truly believe this is a legal industry issue, where no one can sit still without making other people feel like cr/p purely for the kick of it all. Is academia better? I have the option of doing an LLM. Is there anything creative that I can feasibly transfer into? Publishing/editorial/journalistic work?? Is consultancy better??? Need serious answers from people who are actually happy in life and don't regret making the switch/don't feel like they gave up.

One of the partners in my ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ office who is now in his 40s has recently lost some weight with a 90s style make over to his clothes and hairstyle. But he thinks be can now freely stare, ogle and comment on women’s weight, clothes, shoes and what all. When he was size XL he did it more discretely but now he does that openly without any fear of consequences.

Zaidi was suspended after a student’s father moved the Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC), alleging that his son had been subjected to continuous harassment, humiliation and discriminatory conduct, affecting his mental well-being and academic performance.…

The action was taken following a hearing before the HHRC on January 29. During its January 16 hearing, the HHRC sought reports from the University Grants Commission (UGC), the commissioner of police, Sonepat, and the registrar of the University regarding the allegations. The HHRC has directed the registrar to appear in person or to depute some other senior officer on May 13 in the matter.

Vishav Bajaj, father of a first-year undergraduate student, in his complaint to the HHRC on November 7, 2025, alleged that the remarks made by the teacher were “politically derogatory, inflammatory and deeply disturbing in nature,” including comparisons of the Prime Minister to Adolf Hitler and characterisation of national security operations as “mere gimmicks and branding exercises”.

Bajaj also claimed that his son was being “victimised” for praising the Union government, the Prime Minister and the Indian Army. Audio recordings were also submitted to the HHRC. The student had also earlier submitted a complaint before the vice chancellor against Zaidi and another assistant professor Ekta Chauhan, alleging their statements against the RSS. BJP MP from Kurukshetra Naveen Jindal is the founding chancellor of the university.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/sonepat-jindal-university-prof-suspended-for-comparing-modi-with-hitler-101772221784470-amp.html

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/professor-suspended-over-harassment-complaint-in-haryana-10556510/lite/