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It's tough. Plenty is written daily on this website about how the pay is peanuts and working conditions terrible. Any excitement of working for the cause of justice, too, fades when confronted with the ground realities (especially at the trial level).
The only thing that can keep you going in such a scenario, then, is your passion & if you have a strong reason/vision/whatever-you-may-like-to-call-it, which keeps you going for reasons other than pay etc.
Go towards litigation if this is what you GENUINELY want, not half-heartedly as a plan B. We all know people who wasted years in litigation only to quit for something else. Nothing wrong with that either, to be honest - to figure out where your heart lies and pivot accordingly.
Please keep in mind that initiating proceedings will bring no good as the case will get dragged out - like all other cases and your name might be revealed by Bar & Bench or LiveLaw, which can discourage clients. In sum, I would suggest not to take coercive steps and be steady with the soft approach.
Seniors in the profession, what is the solution for the same?
Everything that these ppl do is a scam And so is CJP and it's alter ego IAC/AAP
Previously, it was Partha Chatterjee and so many others from the Greens. Surely there are gems from other parties as well.
But how is it that IT, DRI etc which can swoop in, break doors, get automatically alerted and now armed with AI enhanced surveillance and special powers can do zilch when it comes to honchos?
I am sounding naive. But cannot wrap my head around how brazenly these honchos can get away and these intelligence folks don't even bother looking the other way.
One more from NDA
Let’s face it, politics is everywhere. At AZB you get to work on list A matters or first of a kind deals, get the bonus and live for another day. That’s better than most firms today
For NLUs, this kind of change will be disastrous. These are humanities-heavy entities, where the narrative is only the LLB portion is relevant; the BA, BBA, or BSc portion does not make any difference, and there is a clear skewness in favor of BA for all the vested reasons. The primary reason for the pushback is law is the only professional discipline where humanities
Just think neutrally and ask yourself if students are not better served studying AI programming and its application in law, instead of what Marx and Ambedkar said? Or what the Government of India Act and Constitutional Debates said? I mean, a communist country like China is embracing tech-centric capitalist education, while pursuing colleges are still teaching Marx!
https://www.indiatoday.in/jobs/story/ai-over-arts-china-scraps-12000-college-degrees-to-make-room-for-more-ai-courses-tchc-2926615-2026-06-15
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3356913/chinas-universities-cut-12000-obsolete-degrees-amid-race-embrace-ai-era
B. That's a very convenient deflection. The downside of his decisions are being felt now, but the upside will be felt in 2047. Very achhe din like dreams. Nobody has expected NLSIU to become like Oxbridge. Are its students demonstrably better than even their Indian counterparts? Not really. So even that low hanging fruit has not been reached yet.
C. Grade inflation is something about which I actually agree with you. Never criticised Sudhir on that point yet, nor did I see anyone here do the same, so bringing up that point is irrelevant.
D. He was not stopping PhD admission, he was trying to stop legit degrees after the people selected by him awarded those degrees. That's illegal. The point that had been raised was about the PhD was about his own PhD students, which again you would have known had you been an insider. He is certainly responsible for the quality of their work. Don't create such an anguished strawman argument. Nobody other than you care whether he leaves academia, that's his choice. He is now in an admin position and his choices affect others. So he will be held accountable for those.
E. Once again, you manufactured a hypothetical argument. Nobody would have accused him of anything had he stuck to admitting such students as his infra could support. The fact that he did not clearly goes to show that he is incapable of forethought and the effects of his actions, all of which point of lack of admin skills.
F. Your understanding of empathy is questionable as is your desire to really learn about problems. Why are you assuming that deadlines are only thing that students wanted? Have you talked to the NLS students? He has taken multiple actions which led to such matters. Read the posts before copy pasting your Paul Craig comment everywhere.
Whether according to you Sudhir is doing the best doesn't matter, just as if someone else is saying that he isn't, that doesn't matter either. However, you don't get to attack them for not having his academic qualifications, just as they don't get to attack you for being Sudhir's lackey or having ulterior motives for defending him by attacking others in random public forums.
2. You cannot go up from nowhere on the global map to equivalent of Oxford + Harvard without serious years of effort. The starting gun on that has been fired by Sudhir, and his legacy will need to be taken forward, if it is to be a success later on. NLSIU will need years and years of Sudhir-type leaders before it can get to the stage you are wanting. The key thing was to get it started, which has been done.
3.
(a) In case you haven't noticed, it has been he who has clamped down on the grade inflation that was happening at that uni. Why were so few people getting Rhodes in those years, while now we have already seen two during his reign?
(b) When he was clamping down on bad PhD work and not admitting more than a handful of PhD students, you people were blaming him. Now when PhD work is coming out under his control, you are blaming him, too. Can you at least say what is so average about these projects you dismiss with such a cavalier mindset? What will satisfy you? Him leaving NLSIU? Academia?
(c) Equally, you would blame him for having an Eton-Oxbridge mindset if too few students were admitted. If student numbers grow, you blame him for bad market forces, though I do agree that more could be done to adapt to the changing job scene, and the current way for handling university graduates' career progression is not working.
(d) Your and the critical students' understanding of empathy is not right. You don't hand out deadline exemptions etc just for the heck of it. You give one, very exceptionally, if students have had illness, death of a loved one or other such circumstances. Nothing less.
4. Scholarship opportunities are indeed getting lesser. But that's a worldwide trend. Uni finances the world over are getting tighter and tighter every single day. But that doesn't mean that low-income deserving candidates aren't getting aid. Please set out a blueprint to ensure a better funding model of university funding. Because according to me, Sudhir Krishnaswamy is the type of person who is doing the very best possible under current conditions (and the type of hypothetical I have in mind would do the same).
Hence, asked. Any insight would be helpful :)
If you do not have a t1 internship in the next 2-3 months already lined up, likelihood of a t1 having a vacancy and hiring is slim to none, so practically switch your goals to boutiques or T2s and lateral to a T1 when suitable.
Hope this helps.