By opportunities and sheer options available. Having a house enough in Mumbai where you call yourself Mumbai's middle class - you are rich in Indian context. Imagine - richest of some district in MP is not the same as the richest of India. Why are people so stupid. Middle class Indian cannot survive Mumbai. If you are surviving it as a middle class in Mumbai - you aren't India's middle class. OMG people really are that away from real India.

Purchasing power remains the same for poor people and rich people alike in the same country. Bread costs the same and cars cost the same to both poor and rich. except if you cannot afford bread you starve and if you cannot afford cars you uber. If the rupee is devalued, it is devalued for poor people also. I'm not making any argument about unfairness in opportunity or whatever. I'm making a simple point about how poor the country is. The median income is 30K a month. Only 3% of Indians make a lakh a month or more. To argue that those in the top 3% are middle class is nonsensical. Middle class needs to have a coherent meaning. Just because you cannot afford a lux Insta-worthy life in Bombay doesn't mean people don't live in chains and slums and 1 bhk in faraway parts of the city with their entire family. Get real. You're not calling a spade a spade- you're being quite silly. Class is not about your feelings. Class is about wealth and who has it and who doesnt. Most of India is poor, much poorer than any corporate lawyer has been since he started earning. That you cannot afford armani suits and rolexes doesnt make you middle class. Definitionally, most people who frequent this website are much much nearer to top earners than they are to the working class. How deluded are you guys?

Class isnt defined by how you feel. Its not an identity for you to claim. Its a condition caused by the presence or absence of wealth. Someone who earns more than the median income in India, around 33 thousand ruppees is definitionally middle class, those who earn less are the under class. Anyone who earns in 6 digits per month has to definitially be upper class- only 3% of India makes that much. Upperclass doesnt mean extremely wealthy. The presence of extreme wealth and inequality in society does not mean you become middle class. Your feelings are your problems

So I agree with you but lately I’ve also started seeing the other perspective — the really poor of India are so far outside our lived experience (circumstantially and also by our own wilful ignoring of them). So much so that in our (say a middle class person’s) construct of what ‘society’ is in terms of who we deal with interact with and compare ourselves to, an earning of even 40-80 lakhs doesn’t make you feel rich in any way.

1 crore a year is definitely rich though unless its some one time income. That’s just stupid to think otherwise lol.

As a person born and brought up in Mumbai, I can vouch for this. 1cr per year really doesn't amount to much, even if you don't have over the top expenses, and have your own house in an okay-ish place. By 'okay-ish' I mean a place where your pincode is "Mumbai- 400_ _ _". This city is EXPENSIVE.

The attitude of middle-class Indians is now to become rich and show off at any cost, even if it means sacrificing your health and getting heart attacks at 40 (another startup founder died like this yesterday). This craze for wealth and showing off luxury brands, luxury vacations etc is solely because of Instagram culture, nothing else.

Depends on what you want to do. Don't hog degrees just for the sake of it. If you want to go into academia, then think about LLM and PhD, especially where you do it from, since acadmic inbreeding is a thing. If you want to litigate or get into corp, get to work immediately instead of going for a masters. If you want to give judiciary or civil services then maybe join a coaching. All in all, STOP COLLECTING DEGREES ! BUILD WORK EXP !

Due to covid got into really shitty college during ug and didn't have the privilege to take a drop. So considered giving pg a shot . Got really low score in clat pg. I'm getting t3 nlus considering last year's cut off. I wanted to give rgsoipl a chance. But there is not much info about the placement. So should I opt for t3 nlus or rgsoipl?

Hi everyone, I am an IP practitioner for 10 years+ and wish to understand the data privacy laws, primarily Asian/GDPR. Can someone practicing in the field guide me with some online certification/courses that would help me get an understanding as well as add-on to my resume. I am not looking to making a career in this field, but its worth to get a flavor of privacy laws considering the digital advancements. Thanks in advance!

I am sure of getting a bad SGPA in my first sem. I am from a Tier 1 NLU but due to my bad mental health and all i am sure of getting 2 3 backs and a low sgpa. is it still possible for me to think of placement or is it over for me. Please help a fellow junior. I am very scared right now

Hello everyone,

i am an in house lawyer, graduated in 2024 and got placed in a fairly good company. It has been 7 months now and i feel like i am limiting my learning in this company. I am looking to make a switch as soon as i finish 1 year as the pay is also not very nice. I am looking to get into core industries where the exposure is to numerous laws.

Please share your insights.

Yeah everyone has a system in place for hiring. That system has been exhausted for 25'. They are now focusing on 26'. This is at least the case for T1s.

If you feel you can still try your luck, do that. However, even the HR will say a big no. It is too late.

Maybe try for Crawford, Rajani, Regstreet, Finsec.

Not long ago - they were researching on 'laws why school buses are painted yellow' and details to be mentioned in the back of the bus, and what school be the size/measurement of "SCHOOL BUS" font on the vehicle... Personally, not my type of work. But you be the sole judge of your work aspirations and career trajectory.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/patiala-law-university-registrar-suspended/

Faculty is divided. Most of them are fed up. Any person who is seen as pro student (anti admin) is being targetted.

I guess another NLU going for the race to the bottom.

Hey, if you’re working in a firm, in such professional environments it’s difficult to form genuine friendships as most people are trying to pursue their professional goals. Very few people are lucky to find good friendships at workplace.

You need to find people your age, who share similar mentality. If you do go to court, try to interact with peers your age in the court from other firms/ chambers. People you can genuinely speak with without having to think about whether it will affect your promotion/ leave etc or not.

Of course I was joking :). They gave it a couple of weeks before. And FYI, I don't wait with these things, I'm just a bit slow at them, meaning I make better progress (especially if the topics are more difficult) when there are fewer classes (just how my brain works, so I had all the research done beforehand, but the writing takes a while for me somehow, even though received wisdom indicates that that once you have read and understood, 60% of the battle is won). It wasn't that much of an issue for me (never had to pull an all-nighter or anything), but I do know of people who were crying about not being able to celebrate Christmas. Why do you jump to the worst possible conclusion always? :)

SLEEP. Nothing is as critical to memory as sleep. Avoid Alcohol and Cannabis as sleep aids. In fact, try and avoid sleep aids at all. Memory is made during REM Sleep. These intoxicants/supplements don't allow you to have REM Sleep. If you need to force yourself to reset yourself, keep yourself up for 48 hours and then fall asleep without aid. But nothing is more important than sleep when it comes to short term memory. I had this problem and I recovered after I fixed my sleep. Now my memory is back to its razor sharp usual self.

Honestly, the kind of ideology that makes you think there are both sides when an 83-year-old woman is abused in this kind of filthy language by a young man is a poisonous ideology. She wasn't an elitist. She was making a point about Du Bois preferring a certain pronunciation of his name precisely because HE wasn't elitist. You either go to university to learn from professors or you don't. And if you think you have nothing to learn because youve so bought into your own bullshit- why go?
What was his question except a personal identitarian attack that did not address any of her research or argument that she had presented?

I say this as a marxist socialist- identitarian politics is cancer.

How many ? are they hiring in droves or can you name the same five people I can? Do you know how many people from IIMs and IITs mckinsey hires every year? compared to the two/ three nlu kids they take and they dont even take them as BA 1s? I know exactly two people who made something of themselves at the world bank and thats after they got fancy foreign graduate degrees. Almost everyone who claims to have worked for UN after graduating from an NLU is doing an unpaid internship. To get a paying job you need a rigorous education offered at a multidisciplinary university. Why lie?

I am in my final year from a T2/T3 NLU. I have no hopes of getting placed through college because my grades are more for the worse than better. I managed to get a T1 assessment internship after graduation but if don't manage to get hired I'll end up unemployed. I have very poor soft skills but I can put my head down and work hard. Please give me some tips (especially on how to interact with my team etc.) to ensure that I get hired here.