Okay. This is something worth talking about.

Be very careful. I am saying this because you said you are dealing with a life time of indebtedness. There are many reasons sometimes out of our control - but I want to say something that is not often said.

I helped my parents with the debt clearance and it did not help. My father just made newer and bigger ones. My mother refused to intervene to keep the peace.

I paid off a crore in debt and helped with the house repairs, car etc. Dad kept throwing money into a fire with a business project that did not take off.

So ask some deeper questions - is this a rope tied to a sinking ship? You may really want to confront that reality. I did not and suffer for it in lost opportunities etc.

If people who are supposed to make responsible decisions are not doing it - please ask tough questions. Because we are ingrained to help our parents out of a tight spot.

But demand responsible behaviour, otherwise you just become a new revenue stream for them with extra gratitude steps and they think they have a longer rope with irresponsible finances.

You will notice people, especially men in their last chance saloon moments take crazy financial decisions. Be aware of this phenomenon.

If you need to deal with your guilt of cutting the rope, get your parents on a good health insurance plan funded by you - just cover it.

You got their back health-wise, but if the money just keeps going missing - you need to put down terms of financial responsibility as they get older.

You can also say you will only put money in a joint account with them - where transactions need your approval. They get the financial security but you need to monitor things.

From my experience - its do-able if the sum is a few crores from a job in T1 - but think beyond just debt repayment too. You have your life too.

A good employer should give these perks:

- Medical

- Laptop, tablet and phone

- Car

- Driver

- Amazon vouchers

- Taj/Oberoi meal vouchers

- One foreign holiday per year

- 25 days holiday per year, excluding national holidays

- Sports club membership

This will keep employees, happy, reduce attrition and attracts a better quality of employers.

Then how did he become a judge and get a transfer from Allahabad to the most prestigious HC in the country?

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/yashwant-varma-delhi-high-court-allahabad-high-court-judge-in-cash-pile-at-home-row-was-named-in-cbis-fir-against-sugar-mill-7981650

hi, I passed my +2 in 2024 and I moved abroad but realised that doing law in another country is so lengthy and not much worth it so I came back and now thinking to give clat this year but I am 19 rn so if I drop for clay then I will be 20.5 next year while going in law school. and the topmost option for me right not to get into decent school is NMIMS otherwise slsp or Nirma and other needs either entrance test or clat. I am really confused!!! any help will be appreciated

I am a female A0 who works at a boutique corporate law firm, almost all of my colleagues are 7-10 or more older than me due to which I can’t connect with them . How do you make friends in the legal fraternity? Are there any groups for any sporting activity or anything along those lines that are exclusively for lawyers?

The trigger for this post is the GNLU suicide. Even without this case, we cannot deny there is a mental health epidemic in a national Law universities. There are many reasons for that: too much competition over grades and jobs, toxic seniors and batchmates, lack of genuine friends and relationships, and depression from social media.

So what’s the percentage of people suffering from this? 80% 50%

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/gnlu-student-ends-life-on-campus/amp_articleshow/119189245.cms

What about the most neglected constituency of all: the middle class? Can’t we have more seats from middle-class constituencies, considering that we pay all the tax in the country? In my view, all the top 15 cities in India should have 30% of all Parliamentary seats. And that will also balance north-South representation.

Faculty is not as important as the quality of your fellow students in class. They are the ones that will drive the competition and compel you to either improve or languish. On that basis, NLSIU, NALSAR, NLUD, NUJS can be reasonably placed over DU. I leave the place of the remaining NLUs in this comparison to other commentators.

His father was a lawyer, so he is technically NOT a first-gen lawyer, however, his father wasn't a big-shot like Harish Salve's father, who was the Union Minister of Power. Then, how did someone like Arun Jaitley build the name and fame he had as an excellent civil/corporate/white-collar attorney) attorney and a brilliant politician.

Right now, even his friends are just playing sympathy card and trying to show dominance while they don’t know that people are just not saying anything because they think they are the victims. The other day, I saw they came very close to get beatings when they cursed some fifth year.

Your suggestion reminded me of a comment I previously contributed to another discussion on the same theme of the rule of law. Sharing it here in interest of relevance. << https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/423362-t#comment-423927 >>.

It is a sensible suggestion but it does not fit in with how public administrators understand the function of law in the polity. Even in the US, with a far longer tradition of the rule of law, one can see how raw power can subvert and degrade any principle that seeks to establish neutrality in decision-making. In India, does the majority actually support the rule of law? Do they actually accept the premise that individual civil rights are sacrosanct and cannot be made subservient to communal identity? These are political questions and it is in answering them that we establish the contours of how we relate with the practice of the rule of law in Indian context. It is that context which then determines recruitment and training policies. The problem of Indian polity is not that it is insufficiently committed to the rule of law but that it is already committed to another understanding of the purpose of law. In that understanding, civil liberties are desirable but not essential. What is essential is public order, prevention of riots, and balance of power between communal identities. Until this understanding persists, any attempt to reform will either under-perform on its aims or end up being subverted. Just take the entire discourse on Lokpal (and in a similar vein, on collegium) and how badly we struggled to create an accountability institution because we could not figure out who possesses the necessary integrity to be given that power in the first place. Why? Because that integrity itself is not aligned with how law is practiced in our polity. And then we ended up with the worst of both worlds, neither an institution that works nor one that is trusted to have any integrity.

No one has remotely suggested that. Or are you referring to fake claim of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 taking away the rights of an Indian citizen on the basis of their religion. The Act doesn't even talk about Indian citizens.

Stop being such a snowflake. Just because someone criticises someone else doesn't mean they want to annihilate their rights. It is a debate. Strong language and stronger arguments will be a part of it.

Here is the thing. Europeans do learn Latin. As do Americans. Language is an instrument of communication across past, present, and future. Understanding our past requires us to learn classical languages in a rigorous, methodical manner. It enables us to be in communion with our forefathers and how they thought over the same issues that we are now working with. So even when a particular language cannot serve as a medium of communication in the present tense, it is still a valid form of communication through which we are participating in a discourse of understanding and revelation with our cultural past.

It is all about providing an introduction of who you are as a professional that LinkedIn can best be of service. No harm in making a profile and updating it regularly with your academic and professional achievements. At the same time, no need to obsess over it and spending a disproportionate amount of time on it.

There is no path of least resistance here. It is a journey of our adulthood to recognise the distance between the ideal and its practice in every domain/profession. It is through ambition, discipline, and humility that we get started with what we have come to do here, even when surrounded by indifference and corruption. You do your best, you meet a few good souls who complement your ethical and professional sensibilities, and together you build a legacy of achievement and excellence, no matter how modest your circumstances may be. And then you leave this grand experiment called human life, perhaps a little doubtful if you have really improved the world from as it was before your arrival. But because you lived the good life, honoured the right virtues, encouraged the gentle over the cruel, and upheld your side of the ethical bargain, you leave with no regrets. You may doubt whether the world is a better place but you will never doubt the worth of your own deeds. Because that is the confidence that comes from having lived a life of integrity and excellence.

I wish you the best in your journey, comrade.