Constantly this prediction has been made... and what has been the result? Placements: still good. Foreign firm hiring: still happening steadily. Rhodes Scholarship: happened recently, that too awarded to a student of the programme which is Sudhir's brainchild, the one you all said would produce crap quality graduates. Instead what? Despite all your crying, it has produced somebody who is scholarly, kind, well-rounded and eminently a better person than every single talking head on this thrice-damned site. Will you please just shut up, admit that you are failures and carry on with your lives? Gosh! You are even more pathetic than the person whom Hasan Minhaj referred to as "Beky with the bad grades". At least she had the guts to file a case (forget about merits or otherwise of the lawsuit) against the U.T. system. All you do is come on an anonymous forum and bitch about a person whose boots you aren't worthy to lick, hoping that one of your attempts will stick. Why not accuse him of a crime and have done with it? Oh! I forgot! NUJS people who tried to harm him with fireworks have already tried that stunt, and failed. So this is the best you can do.

This is the latest mail from the dean. This is after people were protesting her previous mail by writing mails stating that this is not fair or good for the mental health of students.

Mail:

Dear all

Sending these type of hate mails doesn't help. I am responding to make just one statement. Any faculty that VC wants who is 'flexible' enough can be made Dean Academics. I have already stated this to VC number of times. I have rejected to be VC in charge 3 times in my career in two different universities and also given up registrar's position. So rest assured I don't enjoy this. I have been on the side of power since the day I was born so I know it's reality.

As long as I am there I won't agree to standards stooping to lower level than they already are thanks to 'flexible' and so called 'student friendly' (or student appeasement) policies of some who have been associated with the university. Since you hardly know anything about how universities work, I am informing that I don't appease because I am academically and financially honest and don't have skeletons in my cupboard.

So instead of writing unnecessary mails here and wasting time prepare yourself for the hard life and competition ahead. These mails do not affect me. And I won't respond further

This is a shit show. Genuinely the BA law and 3 Year llb need to cut down their acts and collectively join to protest. Even if not protesting, help get rid of Ved Kumari. Her term will be one more year and she has been hell-bent on ruining everything from mental health to fests. Someone needs to alert the consortium of NLUs and BCI. This is an even semester and we have a record of suicides in every even semester.

Having seen this university for the past five years, all I can say is that the nose dive is for real. The admin is cranky and stupid at its best. The only good thing about this university is the caliber and hardwork of the students hustling in it. I am afraid, with the lack of academic support and irrational policy changes, the present placement stats will become a distant dream for the future batches (except only if the current admin is totally done away with)

She gets a worse rap than she deserves for unnecessary reasons. There are other partners that are sometimes more vitriolic in open view at the office that are not discussed like this. The team executes efficiently and everyone there is well trained - if you join, you'll learn immensely.

I don't think getting in litigation is that hard. You might not get what you want but there is always something for everyone in litigation. Try shifting to Delhi, if you are not already here. It will help big time. Talk to your friends, approach your seniors, take the pain to talk to anyone who might have a connection. Just don't stop the grind. Also, pls take care of yourself and seek some professional help if you need to!

I can relate! I have been struggling to find a job in law for six seven months now ( I am from 2024 batch). Despite approaching various small to large law firms, I've been met with rejection.

The common response is that I need experience, but when I reach out to counsels to join their chambers, their juniors tell me to gain experience by working in a law firm. I was ready to not expect any monetary compensation in litigation. I know how litigation is. But even in small law firms you don’t get paid.

And guess what, I have seen few people directly join chambers of some renowned lawyers directly after graduation. And then I found out about their whole family background.

It's a vicious cycle. Law firms want experience, but the only way to get that experience is by working in a law firm. I'm caught in a loop with no clear way out. Some small law firms even mentioned that I must work for 24:7 with no pay and no weekend off.

I've also offered to work for free to gain experience in litigation, but even that hasn't yielded any opportunities.

I'm starting to regret pursuing law. I wish I had taken my entrance exams like CLAT more seriously, despite getting into a good institution through MHCET. However, they didn't have a strong placement program. No doubt people give up on this career.

I'm not blaming anyone entirely, but I realize I must be lacking somewhere. Then why don’t they give me feedback instead of vague responses.

Despite doing well academically and securing good internships, I'm not getting anywhere.

Everyone I ask for help seems so so insecure and unwilling to offer guidance, recommendations or feedback. I'm feeling frustrated and lost. It’s literally taking toll on my mental health.

Also I met few people who are so insecure and threatened in law school and in legal industry. And sometimes I feel this whole industry is like this. Judge me I do not care. I am so done!

Fresher gets around 10 to 12 per annum from what I last heard. Both Delhi and Mumbai have good disputes practices. There is a variety of matters and lot of independence given to SA level onwards including appearance. They dont follow sols model so you do get encouraged to appear if you persevere. Broadly divided into tax lit, civil and commercial lit and arbitration. The tax lit team is fabulous. The arb team is GAR 100 ranked and has some good individuals. They do mainly domestic arbitration. Hope this helps.

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https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/held-hostage-for-40-hours-youtuber-ankush-bahugunas-digital-arrest-ordeal-7405352

I just don't get it! We are warned every day.. why do they fall for these scams then?

The mere mention of a central university provokes downvotes, as OP already mentioned. This is the most definitive sign of jealousy, insecurity, and hatred among state NLU students. If state NLUs achieve much more with a "fraction of resources' then why such a toxic reaction to anything concerning central universities? Don't bother reacting to such posts.

You say tradwife, like any Indian woman, is actually choosing to adopt the role of the homemaker.

Even if you were to meet a family oriented, make-your-own-bread milk-your-own-cow type of homesteader usually portrayed on "tradwife" spaces- she likely wouldnt be interested in someone who plans to slave for corporate overlords, not take an active role in raising children or who wouldnt know how to fix a light bulb let alone build her a house. Indian men want the women to be "family oriented" instead of career oriented, but they themselves arent similarly family oriented at all. What they want is a bangmaid, not a marriage.

What you mean is that you are incapable of being a good husband and want to marry someone who is poorer and less financially stable than you are in hopes that she will put up with your bad behaviour all her life. She might. She might also find out that its not worth it. Just be honest though- dont use euphemisms to disguise your own shortcomings.

How do these Del HC/ SC (mostly Delhi based) advocates make money in litigation when they sit at 30-40k LinkedIn followers but their each post has no sense of punctuations, no capitalisation in place and it's all writing of the lowest order. How are they churning money when they can't put together sets of words?

Leave aside the fact that many college students will be adversely affected by this (including NLUs and Jindal), isn't this a blatant disregard of privacy and personal freedoms? India is getting more and more of a crap place to live in day by day.

https://www.news18.com/business/unmarried-couples-no-longer-welcome-oyo-changes-check-in-rules-9177563.html

From your tone, maybe you communicated it to them like you were expecting them to be impressed? People don't react well to that kind of thing. Not to pick on you but I'm just pasting what you wrote below and will leave you to find the contradiction:
'if u want to impress others you are in the wrong business", i dont want to impress anyone but it hurts when people are not impressed'

If you want to be happy, maybe reflect a bit. If you don't want to, that's fine. Many people go through life obsessed with external validation.

I didn’t say it was harder than being a cancer surgeon or more worthwhile. Did you read my post ?

I don’t know if it’s easier to get into Harvard for a phd or nls. Maybe the former might have fewer applicants but it still might be more competitive and demand more from applicants to even be considered than NLS does. Acceptance rates only tell one bit of the story. They tell you how many others applied. They don’t tell you how many of the others that applied were serious applicants, they don’t tell you how good the other applicants were - nothing. If you went by acceptance rate alone, everyone working in the services should be a genius and given the small number of people who are ever even nominated for the MacArthur grant, it must be quite easy to get .

Honestly I don’t care either way. It’s the work you do during your phd that matters to me, whether it’s interesting or novel or rigorous, not necessarily the institution. But I will say - on average institutions in the west demand more rigor from the work of their phd students than institutions in India do.

OP here, thanks a lot for the concise answer.

I was a defense aspirant (wanted to be an infantry officer) but have weak eyesight and bad in maths so gave up on NDA and went for NEET hoping to join the Army Medical Corps. I dropped for NEET this year (2024) but it was simply not for me. I was getting a shitty off campus college in DU through CUET and almost went there (hoping to give CDS on graduation) but the college was simply trash. A friend whose dad is a judge suggested CLAT (and I have always been kinda interested in law) so I initially wanted to go for either JAG or judiciary but the sheer amount of money that you make in law firms is tempting me.

Personally, it has always been my dream to serve as a commissioned army officer, preferably in the combat arms, more preferably the infantry, but I understand that is not possible for me anymore.

I have 5 years to decide on my future path but for now I think I will either go for a law firm head on or try for JAG and live out my dream, albeit on a limited scale.

Either way, I wholeheartedly thank you again for your kind and informative answer, I shall keep coming back to it for future reference :)

Which foreign firms would you say do the best/most India-related work from a corporate perspective (other than HSF and Linklaters) from their London offices?

Hard to tell from the outside looking in, since so many firms talk about India on their websites, and rankings can get skewed too.

Context:

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/gst-notice-issued-to-tamil-nadu-pani-puri-seller-over-rs-40-lakh-earnings-7403011#pfrom=home-ndtv_lateststories

Search a Youtube Channel named

"Manoeuvre Education ". Not a promotion, but its the only channel which helps in this aspect of knowing syllabus of MHCET.

As, its a state exam, so LE, CL and LPT these coachings don't guide for 3year LLB. So, you may get an idea from there.