I got an internship in a good firm by winning a competition. I have heard from people that they are not hiring tho. Is there value in doing this internship in final year? (CV value or skill acquisition) Should I do this internship or apply to other T2/3 places where there are vacancies and scope for hiring.

Since AIBE is an open book exam, I've seen people carry a big bundle of bare acts. Where do you buy them, is there an AIBE kit, so to speak? Is there any chance the BCI is providing them, given the fee (3500 + 80) they are charging for registration for the exam? Is there any use of these books afterwards? I've seen seniors leave them behind in various unlikely locations xD Why on earth is this process not digitized yet? Would save so much paper and money.

Electric vehicles are taking off majorly. So impact will not be as much as it would have been say a decade back. Freight transport by road will be affected but logistics sector is likely to just shift to rail because of the new dedicated frieght corridor which runs on electric power.

India”s oil production would have been more than enough had we been a decently populated country of 30 to 50 million people. But we are unfortunately an extremely overpopulated country of 1.3 billion people. Plus our solar, wind and nuclear energy output is to small. Thus, we have to import 80% of our oil. Any rise in oil prices means, inflation, weaker rupee and a lower GDP. So are we heading towards a recession ???

Universities have no role in performing background checks. And everyone who graduates from a law university is not going to enroll, so why subject others to this unnecessary scrutiny? By your logic all members of the public should undergo criminal background checks for all employment.

My dear friend, it does one no credit to reveal oneself as an unintelligent donkey. I am neither part of CAM nor anyone's employee. Instead of drinking the water of the usual lala firm narrative that is peddled on this forum, why do you not ponder over why such persons may desire to join such a firm. Once you do you will realise the truth - that people such as yourself and the bumpkin to whom I responded know not a thimble of the reality of the socio-economic dynamics of the profession. I advise you to focus on your work and cease speculating about such issues that are perhaps unfathomable to you. Have a good day.

Thank you for your cogent and perceptive comment. It is unfortunate that people like Manmeet / Manan who have decades of experience, did not have the opportunity to consult you and drink your wisdom prior to taking such a decision. Had they the blessing of even a five minute conversation with you and the benefit of your penetrating intelligence, I am sure they would have chosen differently.

You are so naive. Manan's team at Indus at Indus used to get highest bonus as compared to any other team at Indus. Ask any A2 and above from that team and compare their salaries with similar PQE from other big firms including the so called highest paymaster Trilegal, you will see that earning of people at Indus was more than that of their counterparts in other firms. In Indus cap marks, there was something known as discretionary bonus over and above the annual package, and most of the people above A1, used to get a handsome money through this. THAT TOO with a far better work culture and flexibility.

I applied for a position at a law firm and received confirmation for an interview. Upon arriving at the office, I was informed that the Managing Partner was unavailable due to being busy. An associate took my contact information for future communication. After waiting for about 30 minutes, I was asked to leave as the Managing Partner was still occupied.

Shortly after I left, they called me. The Managing Partner had become available, but I was in traffic and couldn't answer. When I called back later, I was told they had updated the Managing Partner about the situation. When I inquired about rescheduling, they said they would inform me later.

After some time, I followed up and received a new interview date but no specific time. When I asked for the time, the associate said she would let me know. The day before the interview, I texted for time confirmation but received the same response. On the day of the interview, I texted again and was told she would check with the Managing Partner. Later, I was informed that the Managing Partner was busy and the interview wouldn't happen that day, with a promise to provide a new date later.

Throughout this process, I emailed the Managing Partner twice to request rescheduling, but received no response. This is the third time I've experienced such issues during my job search as a fresh graduate. The first law firm went silent after the interview, the second stopped communicating mid-process, and now this situation with the third firm. The rest of my applications have also been ignored.

It's been 3.5 months since I started applying, and nothing positive has come out of it. How can I secure a proper date and time for an interview, and what should I do in this situation, given that this keeps happening during my job search?

Cold emails - talk about your undying love for their publications and research area, show some relevant publications from your side, and if possible, get a LoR from your subject professor at Uni. A combination of this, along with repeated follow-ups will at least land you some decent professor. Use that RA ship to climb up the ladder, while working on the three factors mentioned earlier.

Hi OP here. I am hopeful for the place because what I've heard does align with your answer.

What I wish you could tell me is some specifics like who should I try to work under for a PPO, is there a PPT? /Research doc expected at the end of the internship and similar kind of questions if you get the gist. Would be really helpful.Thank you

Yes, He is stupid.

if you have a good 3bhk in Santacruz, Mine costs 3.5 cr in a decent society.

Buy two more of those for the same, you get 1.5 lakh in rent.

have 5 cr for children's education and weddings, 14 cr and maybe 1 extra in an emergency.

15 is enough even if you take an extremely safe way of buying houses for rental Income, reasonably Equity investor can be comfortable with a total corpus of 3-4 crore + house and 5 crore for family expenses ( which includes Harvard education for 2 kids if they choose otherwise or you limit this to Indian your cost will reduce by 4 cr)

There is actually no point of these discussions because these things can't be changed. Additionally it is not true that people only crush on attractive people; anyone could develop feelings for someone else and help them out. Some people even don't like the rich/posh because they find them elitist and assume they won't work hard.

Instead, as the other comment pointed out, focus on what is in your hands like hard work, discipline etc.

Unfair or not, there are advantages

1. good health

2. intelligence

3. looks

4. amazing social skills

5. being driven

6. quick learner

7. great attention to detail

8. highly organized

9. superior quantitative aptitude

10. perseverance

There are thousands of possible advantages, acquire as many as you can

If you think being pretty is a privilege, how about you having access to internet and being able to write in English, there are people who don't have those privileges?

If you are not aware of the faculty discontent at NLS, then you are either not a faculty here or you are Sudhir himself. If you are really interested, speak to faculty about the leave policy, about how Sudhir speaks down to his colleagues, about how he has put up a team of yes-men administrators who call the shots (to the extent Sudhir allows them) on policy matters instead of faculty members.

Yes people leave and move universities all the time. And yes people are leaving to do other things. But many are making the choice to move on instead of going on leave very much because of the place NLS is.

Just because some people over-criticise Sudhir on this website doesn't mean all criticism of him is misplaced.

This sounds like facts and not idal, malicious speculation.

People, you do know that this is how good universities work? Or is this also such a newsflash? (I suspect not, as there are clear indications of bias in the OP's comment - "one thing he was doing right".) Faculty come and go (some on research leave, some for parental leave/other extenuating reasons, others (in the Indian context in particular) who haven't obtained doctorates to go and obtain them, some for careers elsewhere, either at other universities or even in other sectors). And you do know that moving institutions in established Higher Education sectors (e.g., UK) is considered to be a good thing? Don't believe me? Look at the criteria of the Leverhulme Trust for Early Career Researchers and other academics in Britain. Those criteria clearly say that they view moving institutions (unless certain specific exceptions apply) as a good thing.

It is the job of a good university to attract new and equally good (if not better) faculty than the ones who have gone (either temporarily or permanently).

God, anything for a hitjob on Sudhir. Even if the guy leaves the country and returns to Oxford, Buckingham or Columbia (or goes to some other non-Indian institution), the trolls of Legally India won't have done with him. Sudhir, oh Sudhir, why did you go back?

Well, instead of making this fall under conventional slavery, I 'd rather use the term 'Modern Day Slavery'. Being a corp lawyer myself in a top law firm, excel sheets are my cotton field and passive aggressive emails are my daily dose of whipping. Corporate Law is a world that outsiders dream to be in. But having spent years in corp law firms, I can convincingly say that you will find a bunch of depressed chaps there, juggling multiple deadlines, sacrificing friends, family and sleep, all for what? No one knows.

Above comment is correct. I know about these teams both in the US and India, as I have worked with them in committees of certain associations and as part of certain negotiations. While the people in the US teams are top-notch, the people hired in India are mostly mediocre products of mediocre universities, doing pretty terrible work. This is because:

a) Public policy as a field in India is still in its infancy and will take 20 more years to develop. Even then there is no guarantee things will improve, because of the lack of quality leaders and bureaucrats in India.

b) The current lot were early movers in the field, as it’s a space that the early generations of NLU grads/other top grads didn’t get into. So the PP field in India hasn’t seen an infusion of creative ideas by brilliant people. Some good people are joining now, but they are too young to make a difference and most leave after a couple of years to change careers or study/migrate abroad.

c) The work in India as such is terrible: copy-paste talking points prepared by bosses abroad and suck up to IAS officers from small towns who have poor domain knowledge and social awareness, and are also very corrupt, feudalistic and arrogant.

I think you are generalising a lot of things here, sir. Firstly, it's not the labour laws of Nehruvian Socialism that kept the country backward, but largely prevention of private enterprises to come up through law aka license raj. Secondly, weekly rest and reasonable work hours are essential for a healthy society and healthy families. Look at how Japan is collapsing as a nation, with government begging people to have babies and young workers paying firms to help them quit jobs. Sorry to say but the life in a law firm is not a healthy life to live and it's not that it is inevitable, it became such because the market did not find any incentive to make it more healthier lifestyle. Hence, government needs to step in because there is a limit to what market can do. Thirdly, I don't think long working hours is contributing to more money for the workers in as much as it is contributing to the economic inequality at the cost of health and well being of workers. Fourthly, every partner who comes here just says one thing: Don't whine, if you can't cope up, do something else. What we fail to understand is that in absence of regulation of work hours we will only race to the bottom. Today those who leave law firms move in- house and thankfully most in-house jobs have reasonable work hours. But what if it changes in future? What if the companies hire less people and give higher salaries. We are increasingly seeing that firms across fields are increasingly becoming more extreme (high pay-no wlb or peanuts with wlb). It's difficult to find the firms at the centre. Fifthly, the doom that you prophesied was also prophesied by the rich after industrial revolution and tbh it's prophesied with every pro labour government laws. Many of these dooms never actually take place. The market adapts. I am not saying that we can't destroy the market in name of labour rights, sure we can but this isn't that harmful for the economy even though it might mean lesser pay for workers and perhaps for senior management and employers. Remember India is a free market. All firm might have to keep the pay at same level, because few firms would choose to do the same even after these laws just to not lose talent. Lastly, forget about competing China, it is like Canada saying we need to beat US economy. We are okay with a bit of less GDP, if we can keep our sanity and rights.