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It is not without reason that all NLUs are struggling financially (barring a few exceptions). They can hardly do anything other than run their flagship 5-year law programmes just to keep the lights on.
Also, what are some ways to improve the funding model for NLUs?
Started an internship this week but got kicked out by my parents who are not refusing to pay the PG rents and any expenses. How do I possibly get an income. This firm pays 6k as stipend and maybe a month late. What do I even do now? Ive asked the owner for a weeks long extension and my parents have blocked my number and everything. Please help me this is so urgent and bad I cant live
University really transforms you. A couple of years there and you won't know yourself, especially if you end up at an (even relatively good) uni.
Plus, as people are becoming more open about such stuff, let's be clear on this: people who find people skills hard are getting into, and being successful in, the law - including people with autism spectrum conditions and other neurodivergent/specific learning difficulty issues. Some of these types work in some of the world's globally finest and most prestigious commercial law firms, raking in not hundreds of thousands of Indian Rupees in as salaries, but hundreds of thousands of British Pounds and U.S. Dollars. Therefore, contrary to what some nepo types may indicate to you, the most fancy careers within the legal field are 1000% open to you. Is it likely to be more difficult? Yes, obviously. Will there be loads of bumps on the road? No-brainer, there will. Will you maybe get disappointed due to being refused access to some professional opportunities your more socially mobile/neurotypical friends seem to be getting with ease? Again, sure to happen sometimes. Is there a chance law may not work out for you? Again, of course. You may be forced to go to a tenth-rate uni (many of those around). Or you may have toxic partners managing you, perhaps toxic professors marking your work/having power over you, who don't recognise your talents, nepo kids who seem to have all the answers, all the privileges, all the get-out-of-prison free cards for being arrogant pieces of muck while still being rewarded for such behaviour. Trouble is, all these (and many more issues) are equally applicable to other fields, too. But if you can pull through, you may just find that being a lawyer is an amazing thing to have done with your life.
Regards,
A blind lawyer living with total sight loss (a condition resulting from premature birth called Retinopathy of Prematurity) who had zero friends at school and built so-called 'people skills' entirely at university.
What is to be seen is whether they will join any tier 1 firm or will they start their own firm.
Compare the law schools and not cities of Patna and Kochi or Kerala & Bihar.
CNLU has produced more judges, academics and law firm associates and partners than NUALS.
It has far superior VC in Faizan Mustafa and faculty better too.
Don't look for Competition Law teams, they are small and for some reason, everyone wants to do competition law in recent times.
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Tensions have intensified between Assam and West Bengal after the Assam Police launched a raid in West Bengal to arrest Wazahat Khan Qadri Rashidi, who is accused of making obscene, offensive, and derogatory remarks about Maa Kamakhya, one of the most sacred Hindu deities in Northeast India.
The raid, conducted at Qadri’s residence, was met with strong resistance from West Bengal Police, who allegedly protected the accused and refused to cooperate with Assam police. Sources claim that the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government pressured local law enforcement to prevent Qadri's arrest and transferto Assam.
The move came after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma directed the state police to take strict legal action against Qadri in response to massive public outrage. An Assam Police team had camped in West Bengal for two days but reportedly failed to apprehend the accused due to non-cooperation and obstructionby Bengal Police.
https://www.pratidintime.com/national/maa-kamakhya-insult-assam-police-blocked-by-bengal-cops-in-hunt-for-wazahat-qadri-9338853
Source - multiple friends in srishti over the years
The thing is that I feel like I'm not getting any meaningful work and instead my junior (been here for 3 months) is getting the work, so makes me wonder if they have formed any opinion that I am not capable of that. All of these things have really shook my confidence.
If you want to get a start on readings, I suggest Avtar Singh on Contract and V.N. Shukla for Constitutional Law (M.P. Jain is better, but this book is a little easier). Anna's archive will be your best friend for finding more niche books and commentaries, but your college will probably give you access to Lexisnexis, EBC reader, where you will find most textbooks for Indian Law.