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iPad is the best option.
Macs simply aren't budget. Even if the M4 Air seems great on paper, having a mac restricts you in too many ways (no, not just gaming but for instance having the latest spuriously obtained Adobe PDF software for example, which becomes a must-have). And the repair of anything will cost a kidney and give heart attacks. Get a good windows laptop at your budget - if the budget can accomodate a MacBook or iPad + keyboard, it is definitely big enough for a great machine that you will genuinely enjoy.
https://x.com/_pallavighosh/status/1932659953010987212
I know LLM from India Doesn’t matter a lot etc etc etc. But want to Honest opinion about LLM from these NLUs. Also if someone can help that in which college does have better hold over tech and privacy laws. Like HNLU and NUJS does have a separate stream for these laws.
A good old backpack from Amazon with a laptop sleeve will suffice at the end of it all. If your budget allows: Daily objects backpacks. Great quality and design. Nice to carry during internships too. Mokobara is great too, but it is quite expensive.
Bully! Just shut your face, please reflect on your life choices, please understand that it's elitist creeps and weirdos like you who make this world messed up and you'll figure out that life is much better if you are kind rather than rude.
This forum has increasingly been used by insecure, smug, arrogant bullies and trolls, who would rather kick down than spread a little bit of knowledge and kindness. It is disappointing, disheartening, saddening and shocking that the moderators have failed to take note of this fact, and done absolutely nothing to buck this trend. Moderators, why do bullies rule the playground here?
Regards,
Someone who has been studying law for four years, who has had and continues to have valid questions and who is willing to give any fool who tries to invalidate those a verbal kick in the nuts.
PS: OP, many lawyers and law students (including some who use Legally India) are absolutely lovely people. The one who wrote this comment does not represent us, because whoever s/he is, they are like the smelly thing the dog accidentally brought in or possibly, the dog who deliberately chooses to bring in smelly stuff from his walks to make his (human) parent's life difficult.
So far, the back-pack has been comfortable on my shoulders and that is really the most important thing for me. I recently had a long travel, between flights and trains, and the backpack was filled to the brim but it managed the weight of everything really quite well on my shoulders. It is water-repellant which means, as the folks at Decathlon told me, that it will push away the droplets but if you find yourself in a heavy shower, then Decathlon also sells a nice looking and actually-working water-proof option that they call "rain cover" << https://www.decathlon.in/p/8764679/backpack-rain-cover-20-40l-orange >>.
My own advice to you would be to prioritise size and comfort. Nowadays I feel that I need more than 32L in terms of storage in a back-pack but that is not a fault of this particular back-pack, just an evolution of my own needs.
Finally, congratulations on your selection and all the best for your upcoming student life. Stay safe and be kind.
"Following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, 2025, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked the States to intensify the drive against undocumented migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Hindu reported first on May 14 that the government was sending the migrants across the Bangladesh border for over the past one month. More than 500 migrants have been sent across the eastern border so far. On May 17, 2025, around 140 undocumented migrants from Rajasthan were flown to Agartala on an Air India plane and sent to Bangladesh. Earlier, on May 4, 2025, two Air India planes transported 300 undocumented migrants, including 200 women and children, who were earlier detained in Gujarat, to Agartala and subsequently sent to Bangladesh via the land border. On April 23, 2025, the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) under MHA intimated the Kolkata Police that 80 undocumented migrants from Delhi were being brought by train to the city from where they were to be taken to the border for being handed over to the Border Security Force."
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-pushing-back-illegal-immigrants-to-bangladesh/article69621925.ece
From NDTV:
"Kunal Jain, an Indian-American entrepreneur who witnessed an Indian man being handcuffed and pinned to the ground at the Newark Airport in the US, said that the incident was "deeply unsettling". Mr Jain had posted a video of the man being "treated like a criminal" on X, which went viral and triggered outrage on social media.
According to Mr Jain, there were around 50 people waiting for the flight, but no one dared to say anything to the immigration officials. He said that the young man was visibly disoriented and violent.
"The reason I think he was pinned down is that he was a little violent, and he was feeling disoriented. I don't know why he was disoriented. What happens when there is a violent person, they are not allowed on the plane. So, the officials called the pilot, he said we can't take him on the plane because he's a threat to other passengers. When that happened, they pinned him down," he told NDTV.
"The worst part was when the other police officials came, at least seven to eight, they emptied the whole queue, and they tied his legs and hands and held him. At that moment, I literally started crying. Why did they do that, and so publicly," Mr Jain said, calling the moment a "human tragedy".
There were communication issues between the Indian man and the officials as the former was speaking in Hindi and Haryanvi, Mr Jain said."
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/witness-on-indian-man-being-pinned-down-at-us-airport-nobody-dared-to-8630356
Bro, are you 14 years old? I've traveled to every state in India, and a lot of countries outside India. Someone who does not speak the local language is a walking moneybag waiting to be milked, in most of the world.
I'm also a native Bangalorean who can fluently speak Hindi (almost as if I'm from UP) and have worked in Mumbai for some time earlier in my career as well.
First, fully agree with the other Bangalorean fellow - be chill, don't fall for media + social media.
Second, as a legal market Hyderabad is not there yet. Ahmedabad could be of some opportunity especially if you are willing to engage with GIFT City and the regulations there, as more and more financial services firm look to setup a base of operations there. You will also benefit from better infrastructure, lesser people. On the flipside, weather, lack of cosmopolitan culture (at this point in time) and (to the people for whom this is important) it's a dry state.
Last, If you are a lawyer posting on legallyindia looking to (I presume) get high-end jobs, if you think speaking in Hindi is going to make a difference, then that maybe the wrong way of going about it. English is where our agreements get written in, unless you are a litigating lawyers - then local language is important.
PS: Shift where you think is best. Don't crowd source your opinion or troll on platforms like these.
PPS: The weather is peak Bangalore right now. If you were here for more than 3 days, I'm fairly confident this post would be irrelevant.
But on a serious note, if you give yourself time, you will be surprised with the amount of work you will get.. So be at it. Get out of the rat race and work as per your pace..
For most people an NLU education is a means to social mobility, and you should strive to give your kids a better life than you had. But parents who are not educationists do not always know what that is. Just because a school boasts a fancy campus and has high fees doesn’t mean your kid will be surrounded by the right type of people or have a good education. He might be surrounded by folks who want to drink or smoke their lives away and the education might be a scam.
Just because there’s places like Oxford and Yale doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good for your kid to be cut off from all he knows and transplanted into a foreign land when he isn’t mature enough and needs more parenting and guidance.
The idea that rich people somehow cannot make these mistakes or that their choices of what to buy are always right because they’re rich- that’s ridiculous. Most inherited wealth is blown away in a generation. It’s a human impulse to hope that you can throw money at any parenting problem you face. But it’s a wrong one. If your kid can’t hack nls- maybe law isn’t for them, maybe they go to some other school - whatever. But it’s just a massive cope to assert that while NLS got you everything you have and while NLS was good enough for you, and while NLS has been improving- that some how it’s something that’s not desirable for your kid. That’s either bullshit or shortsighted.
Not only have I been to these fancy universities - I’ve also taught some children of nls alumni. It’s very hit or miss when it comes to talent or intelligence but there is a clear lack of hunger there. They have grown up with everything being handed to them and expect the same thing at university. God help them the day they have to actually earn something.
Also would have not defeated nliu bhopal!.. Second oldest one!
Now bear in mind that, on its own, the number you choose here represents your own sense of what you expected from your current institution and in what way has your current institution delivered upon that expectation. The number represents where you expected to be now, in terms of your intellectual and profesional growth. What a person expects is an evolving question that changes with time. But anything less than 7 is, in my view, a cause for concern because no young, intelligent person (such as yourself) should ever feel that they are living a life lesser than what they deserve. Sometimes, it is better to dare, especially when you have earned that right by qualifying for admission to a place you always wanted to study at.
But please, I urge you, do not worry about "wasting" two years of your life if you decide to go to another institution. Life can be incredibly unpredictable. Worse things than what you are afraid of today can and will happen eventually. You can die tomorrow, for one thing. Does that mean your life was a waste because you did not live long enough to do things you would have wanted to do? No! Savour your present. Appreciate the time you have spent at your particular institution and move on to another place if that is what you think is a better choice for your intellectual and professional life. Our country is a hard place. Many capable men and women will never have the opportunity that you have today: that is the real "waste" and not the time you have spent at your current institution.
You are an intelligent person who knows enough and who can work enough to put themselves in a position where they can now go to an institution of their choice. Give yourself a pat on the back, good fellow. I congratulate you on your success. I do not doubt at all that if you choose to go NLUD, you will make for an excellent company, intellectually and socially. Any institution you have qualified for will gain by your presence.
Get a good night's sleep. Think clearly about where you are now and where you would like to be. Determine the way to achieve that. And then make the decision. Something tells me where ever you go, you will do a fine job. All the best.
I think you have enough common sense to realise that you are fortunate enough to have a VC who is (largely) good at his job, an excellent advocate for his uni and someone with genuine ideas for change in his mind. That's supplemented by a number of excellent faculty. Make the best use you can of such people. Oscar Wilde, based on his intellectually formative experiences at Oxford, once said that the idea of a university education was that you'd learn to gracefully play around with ideas. They are teaching you to do that, so that's the most important base (as far as you'd be concerned from a student point of view) covered. Other things will fall in place over time. As for the trimmings, my UK LLM was done not so long ago that I can recall a number of things about it. Even if you leave out the good course material, the language used, a number of the policies, even the jargon, sound, if you remove the name 'NLSIU' from them, very much like what a good UK university has (or should have) in place.
PS: Do excuse my interest. I did an LLM abroad a while ago. However, while my conviction at the time was that all LLM programmes worth spending time on are outside India, my attention has increasingly been drawn to NLSIU's work. That's not least because of the curriculum design of many of the academics you name. And that has caused me to modify my impressions to a certain extent. All the best for your LLM studies.
My plan is to work here for 6–9 months, build experience (work profile: mainly in drafting, contract negotiations, and some privacy/tech law), and then try to switch to a Tier-2 or boutique firm, even if that means taking a pay cut.
Would really appreciate some insights as to whether this roadmap makes sense.
Mumbai Office: 1 Partner, 2 Counsel and at least 1 Associate left last year.
Delhi Office: 1 Senior Partner left, 1 Partner shifted to Counsel and then left, 3 Counsel left last year, and 3 at least Associates left last year. This year a MA has left and at least 2 Associates.
The writing is on the wall
Best retirement is to go to a tier 2 metro, buy a flat, join a club… all within reach.