I think there is one legitimate question here. Let us do a comparison to understand it.

As someone with experience of both UK and American law school environments, in addition to an Indian one, I have made this one observation: British law students are generally like their Indian counterparts, committed to law from a young age. Their American counterparts, though, obviously do a JD after at least an undergraduate degree. But they are more driven, mature and focussed on success and have very specific ideas of what success looks like. Many UK law students are also like that, but a surprising number are (or become) unsure of their career options while studying law.

Now assuming that the OP's accusation is true, why are Indian 3Y LLB folks less committed to their studies and career than their American counterparts?

Leave it to Indians to compartmentalise learning into neat boxes and pretend that one is useful and the other is not. On the other hand, look at the US where people with BA can take up STEM positions and vice versa because they are mature enough to know that what matters the most is the rigor of one's learning.

Please be respectful and civil in your comments. They has stated their preferred pronouns, so we should respect that. Misgendering people, apart from being a source of trauma and violence, is also illegal in some countries. This thread is meant to discuss the legality of the US government's action against peaceful political protestors, it is not a forum to make queerphobic attacks against anyone.

Good point. There should be an inquiry into how she got at least one of these scholarships while still being a student or alum of another university. One hopes that the award was transparent and that her parents are not influential IAS officers or anything like that.

On another note, who do these scholarships always go to left-wing people studying/researching on caste, Hindutva etc? Why not people who wish to study/research corporate finance or technology?

The worst thing is not her positions in themselves but the utter lack of rigor in them. So-called scholars like these hardly do any original fact-finding or fieldwork. Theirs is a game of interpretation.

She is such a committed ideologue (with appropriate levels of moral righteousness) that in her master's thesis, she manages to accuse and condemn her own Brahmin ancestors in the process. Individuals like her are clever enough to present their work in a language that the orthodoxies of academia will happily approve. But, just think, can they survive a proper, civil debate over their claims without name-calling others?

Note to OP and moderator: Ranjani uses “they” pronouns on her NYU page (link below) so the sentence “award her a degree” should be amended to “award them a degree.”

https://wagner.nyu.edu/community/faculty/ranjani-srinivasan

Nobody cares about OG gang to be very honest. Manan and his minions seen to run the show now. And as Yash is a Senior Partner and has a host of clients he too is involved in the practice. Maybe OG gang is not happy as they are not able to terrorise and bully their juniors as they used to do earlier. Even the OG associates now like to work with Minions and not with some OG partners because of their toxicity. I can't name people but have seen pretty bad things happening on the floor.

As a WCC lawyer, I agree with this. India does not have specific anti-corruption laws addressing commercial bribery and foreign bribery. There is little incentive for companies to implement a robust ABAC framework, despite the PCA providing an 'adequate procedures' defense for corporations. The work is repetitive—even internal investigations are.

"Don't know what these guys do anyway"

Toh bete ek month intern karne ke baad aise thread kyu banate ho?

In all seriousness, the following practices will be obsolete in the 10 years from now-

1. ECM for sure, Gen AI can replace all their templatized BS. Also B&F.

2. Tax has GOT to leave the lawyers and go to the CAs ffs.

3.M&A/ Funds will be reduced to research questions, procedural assistance, and legal opinion. Due diligence will be the out of human touch.

4. HR, except one lady in the front desk, all internal HR will be external.

5. Labour/ IPR should only see a surge as the Indian government is trampled by capitalism and India finally becomes a developed country, theres more than drafting here, so AI could be of less use.

6. Litigation will NOT be replaced by AI in 10-15 years. It will continue its victorian practices.

There are different ways to support a revolution. Armchair folks signing petitions are not unimportant because they help in shaping the public opinion, theoretically. I'm talking of movements in general, not in particular.

Eg: If Nepali professors and students in India had written more about Bhutan's treatment of Nepali citizens, we'd know more about them.

Agree. There was an example where an Insta influencer was seen participating in Palestine protests just for engagement, making KPop finger heart signs and pouting at the camera. When she was later confronted she said she had no idea of the conflict and generally came to support “peace and love”.

I take no issue with what this person believes in. Whatever it is, fine by me. But I do have a question. What happened to putting theory into practice? Advocating for “Palestinian liberation” from the comfort of one's home in one of the richest universities is certainly easy and convenient instead of going out to Palestine directly and grappling with the violence that such an advocacy ends up justifying. The latter is perhaps a little discomforting for some of these folks who proudly proclaim themselves as professors of revolution but run away at the first sign of intimidation. So much for their alleged commitment. Shoved into spotlight and asked to justify their controversial positions and which have had very real consequences out there in the world, they can only moan that they are just a random, ordinary person going about their life. Such a pitiful sight.

Three federal immigration agents showed up at a Columbia University apartment searching for Ranjani Srinivasan, who had recently learned her student visa had been revoked. Ms. Srinivasan, an international student from India, did not open the door.

She was not home when the agents showed up again the next night, just hours before a former Columbia student living in campus housing, Mahmoud Khalil, was detained, roiling the university. Ms. Srinivasan packed a few belongings, left her cat behind with a friend and jumped on a flight to Canada at LaGuardia Airport.

When the agents returned a third time, this past Thursday night, and entered her apartment with a judicial warrant, she was gone.

“The atmosphere seemed so volatile and dangerous,” Ms. Srinivasan, 37, said on Friday in an interview with The New York Times, her first public remarks since leaving. “So I just made a quick decision.”

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The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement that characterized Ms. Srinivasan as a terrorist sympathizer and accused her of advocating violence and being “involved in activities supporting Hamas, a terrorist organization.” The department did not provide any evidence for its allegations.

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She said that her activity on social media had been mostly limited to liking or sharing posts that highlighted “human rights violations” in the war in Gaza. And she said that she had signed several open letters related to the war, including one by architecture scholars that called for “Palestinian liberation.”

“I’m just surprised that I’m a person of interest,” she said. “I’m kind of a rando, like, absolute rando,” she said, using slang for random.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/nyregion/columbia-student-kristi-noem-video.html

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The growth of Hindi across the subcontinent is natural. Hooligans aside, it has not been imposed by anyone on anyone. If Indians were actually that competent in imposing languages on each other, then you would not be writing here and worrying about the relevance of your language. The fact is, Indian languages are struggling because their own native speakers have not done the work to keep them culturally and economically relevant. When was the last time anyone called for who won the Sahitya Academy award in their language? When was the last time someone read novels in their mother tongue. You are blaming the wrong side, fellow.

Some teachers need to be named and shamed. There was a teacher in NLS whom the students protested against about a decade ago. He made tasteless comments against a student who was sexually assaulted. Such teachers deserve to be shamed, not put on a pedestal and made resource persons.

Not the person you're replying to - but that's not an overstatement at all. That's literally the power of a great teacher. In my case, though, I remained in touch with some of such good teachers for much longer, even after the course ended. I am in touch with one of them till date - 5+ years later. Your comment makes me realise, I need to reach out to others too. Thanks.

Ah. We might have some agreement. I think if you can afford to go to study at these places with your own money. You shouldn’t be eligible for scholarships. Point blank. No Rhodes no inlaks no Fulbright no nothing. If you’re that wealthy - you don’t need the clique. That’s a stupid bratty reason to take money and opportunity away from someone who needs both.

I agree with you and appreciate your critical perspective. Thanks for sharing that information regarding NLSIU. Regarding the NLSIU teacher I mentioned, my point is that he is really clutching at the straws here to justify something as destructive as group-based discrimination in the country. He is not just trying to make Indian jurisprudence on reservation coherent. He is also trying (in my view, insidiously) to make the underlying basis of reservation, which is blanket discrimination, as a moral/legitimate basis of policy. Now you are correct that he is free to do so. But my point is that he took the easy way out. He accepted the intellectual orthodoxies of his profession. It is a fact that it is practically impossible to argue in an Indian university against certain assumed positions/subjects of Indian state and society today, such as the underlying principle of reservation. I do not think the university exists solely to justify the ideational biases of the society in which it operates. It should aim for more than that.

Regarding IITD, I would request you to please consider that the faculty at their HSS department has consistently embraced the worst examples of critical theory in their academic work and pedagogy. The leading spokesperson of this is currently Prof. Dwivedi whose public pronouncements would be worth debating here if they were not so obviously born of her own partisan resentments. She had a major role in starting their new PG programme on culture, society, and thought where the faculty can now freely continue their indoctrination of students without rigor and with the stamp of an IIT, no less. They don't discuss in class what they disagree with. They simply label it as “problematic” or “misogynist” or whatever other adjective that puts others on the defensive. Those who are familiar with this pernicious critical ideology that divides humans into groups of domination and oppression can easily make out the anti-intellectualism of papers that talk about caste-based reparations or label an entire group, such as Brahmins in this case, as wholesale oppressors. There is no rigor/logic in these positions and they do not contribute to human knowledge. They confuse activism with intellect. They are just mimicking the fashions of the West because that is how a predominantly left-dominated academia rewards the groupthink of its members. Their research interests are hardly organic. In ten years, they will again borrow something from their counterparts in the West. Most of them don't even do any fieldwork to justify the outrageous claims in their publications.