Request to LI moderator: entire social media is siding with RGNUL students. Priyanka Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor and many other senior Congress leaders have spoken in favour of the students. Congress leader and HNLU-Harvard alum Avani Bansal even visited the campus and did a vlog on it to support the students. The Punjab Women's Commission Chief has even written to the President. Yet we see comments on LI speaking against the students and they are also getting upvotes. This is very worrying and suspicious. Kindly look into it.

Unsurprisingly, no one responded to why the moral policing question. Also, if I cant wear shorts in my hostel, then might as well ban shorts for women. Considering what I hear about boys hostel, that they pretty much roam around in their undies, its unfair on us to say the least

There’s no way out for people unwilling to work. I’m not saying that 15 hours everyday. But for gods sake don’t complain about normal 10:30-7. Things on filings days might spill over beyond this and that’s fine. Top billing teams in other practice areas have it worse than this. You’re paid a decent amount to put your honest foot forward.

OMG you guuuuys!! Come on, it's blatantly obvious why DYC is avoiding NUJS !!

1. The SH case: It will look very awkward if he sits next to the very man who students have written to him against.

2. The RG Kar case: There are protests happening in Kolkata every day and another massive protest is planned on Gandhi's birthday. It's too sensitive a time for him to visit. It will also look embarrassing if he sits with Mamata on stage at a time like this.

3. Mamata: She hijacked the platform that the VC gave her last time by making a political speech against Modi. I am sure DYC wants to avoid this from happening again.

Comments attacking NRI Quota candidates as "rich brats" are really ridiculous. NRI quota candidates are essentially non-EWS general category candidates who may or may or may not be eligible under domicile quota, depending on where they are from. For example, a Chhattisgarh student can become a domicile quota candidate at HNLU but an NRI quota candidate at GNLU. In fact, there is even a girl who made it to NLIU through the MERIT LIST but choose NUJS as an NRI QUOTA candidate for family reasons and she eventually got a scholarship at a top university.

It's really disgraceful to hate on NRI Quota like people here are doing. What do you have to say about caste quota candidates who are children of IAS officers and with very low CLAT scores? How are they any less privileged than an NRI Quota student ?

Let's have a rational debate, please.

Top nlus have been reporting a consistent surplus in crores. Scrapping NRI will not have as much impact on funds. It may however impact student quality. if you look at the top 10 ranks or best performing mooters debators they are usually NRI quota kids (no correlation with merit whatsoever, just better opportunities, finances, confidence)

Don't think it's ever happened before. Mamata Banerjee@NUJS during the Ishwar Bhat protests, SS Chauhan@NLIU during the SS Singh protests, Bommai@NLSIU during the Nandimath protests (during Sudhir's appointment).... NEVER.

https://www.punjabnewsexpress.com/punjab/news/punjab-cm-talks-to-agitating-students-of-rgnul-from-hospital-bed-264018

I will be interning (virtually) at Dhir & Dhir in the forthcoming months. Can someone kindly elucidate as to the kind of work that are assigned to interns for I intend to gather information with regards to the nature of work given to interns and the end product that is expected out of them by the firm. Any information would be helpful. Thanks in advance!

What do the public policy teams of Meta, Google, Netflix and the likes do in India? I don't know if they are the same as their in house teams. What sort of work do they majorly do and if anyone has any ballpark of the pay it'd be helpful. Also, what are the chances of getting in with a PQE of 1 year?

The question is not about specific undeserved promotion. What you're suggesting is that the evaluation system loses its sanctity altogether. If one can appear for examinations over and over again in the same year, then over a period of time, students will stop taking examinations seriously at all. There is already a repeat examination system in place. Going by your logic, why stop at a single special repeat examination? We should keep making the student appear for exams until they secure pass marks. Eventually the faculty are just going to set easy papers and make the person pass regardless of whether they really clear it or not, or else set sub standard papers just to deal with the additional workload. If the reason why someone has failed the first two times is that they haven't learnt enough, then they should go back to the learning board, not simply carry on trying to 'hack the exam'. I don't like exams at all, I would rather have continuous evaluation throughout the sem, but the educational system needs to be radically transformed to implement it effectively. The solution of mental health problems is counseling and understanding, not a pass certificate.

Pune Labour commissioner ruled that EY didn’t have working caps of 48 hrs/week and 9 hrs/day as per Shops and Establishment Act.

Why no such cap in legal industry especially when retainer contracts actually read like employment contracts (even by control supervision test standard) ?

Can we do something about it? Write to ministry? Opposition? Courts?

Hello! I was wondering if it would be possible for a 2023 graduate (JGLS) with a good CV and almost 1y PQE in litigation to switch to a tier 1 or maybe tier 2 or boutique. I was aiming for GC but heard it's not possible now. Which teams presents a higher probability of getting in? Also what would be the best time to send applications? Thanks for all the help in advance!

Basically the topic, with GST litigation seems to be almost dead, out of 1.13 lakh notices issued by CGST only 555 are on classification, rest are just differences in data points.

Till date there is no GSTAT and repeated amnesty schemes in erstwhile taxes are spelling a death knell for practitioners

In direct tax, Alternative tax regime means pay lower rate of tax by sacrificing deductions & exemptions. In fact the new tax regime is standard & in majority of the cases more beneficial.

Also central government has come out with another amnesty for income tax.

Guys/Girls working in taxation is there enough of a future in this practice space for lawyers?

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1. Just to be clear, I was responding to the comment that Sudhir's defenders have "no notion" about the meaning of empathy.

2. With that priliminary clarification out of the way, here are my thoughts. Apologies for the long answer.

3. Empathy is when somebody in a position of power (and in the context of higher education, often a professor or an administrator or sometimes both) connects with the genuine struggles of a student (or students) facing what many universities in the west call extenuating or mitigating circumstances (i.e., circumstances beyond their control) and propose or implement measures designed, not to get them away from doing the work or making the task disproportionately easy for them, but which take into account that, because of the extenuating circumstances of that student, doing that thing under the exact same conditions as students who didn't face extenuating circumstances may not be reasonable. As an example, suppose an exam were to be held on 5th May and a student who was to take the exam experienced the death of a loved-one on the first, that student should be able to take the exam instead at the next available opportunity (maybe August, when the resits for those who failed the exam in the May sitting have to take it again), without any penalties applied because of what happened. Empathy doesn't involve letting the student off, as you can see, nor does it involve accepting the student's explanation at face value. It involves making clear that many everyday things (e.g., a common headcold) aren't going to make the cut in terms of working as extenuating circumstances (because the world doesn't revolve around an individual student), in the case of something that would prima facie make the cut, verifying the claim for a change of conditions in a reasonable, respectful way (returning to the example of the 1st May death and the 5th May exam, suppose the 5th May exam happened in an exam season lasting from 5th May to 1st June, giving the affected student until the end of exan to submit the appropriate verification documents that will prove her claim) and changing conditions accordingly. Empathy (when it is actually empathy) in higher education will only work when there is a mutual understanding on part of the student and the teacher/administrator that certain processes have to be followed, deviations are the exception rather than the rule, that a case for those deviations must be established to a high standard of proof, that all cases arguing for a deviation won't make the cut, establishing a boundary or threshold for what does and that there are respectful protocols to follow even when verifying them (e.g., setting a reasonable deadline for extenuating circumstances by the administration, and the student honouring that deadline). For everyday classes that work on the 'cold calling' principle, that may involve establishing a protocol where the teacher must be informed as far in advance as possible (maybe don't set a prescribed time, but suggested 24 hours if you can) in writing that a student hasn't been able to do the preparation because of reasons 1, 2 and 3, with a proper explanation of those reasons. This could also involve coming up with a prescription (e.g., only three incidents per student will be permitted). If the student didn't do this, they should expect to be cold-called and taken to task for not abiding by these.

4. Empathy also would involve a shared understanding between student and teacher/administrator that, even in cases of students facing circumstances beyond their control, there are certain things that one shouldn't do. For example, a student whose case is on the boundary (maybe he has caring responsibilities for an elderly relative and balancing that with his studies is causing him to face mental health difficulties), he shouldn't use Chatgpt to generate his end-of-term submissions. Much better to reach out for help (maybe even make an extenuating circumstances claim), see how he can be supported to complete the same workload, the same difficulty level of workload under as similar conditions to those not facing those circumstances as possible, by his university. Again, empathy of this kind only works when there is a shared acceptance of the legitimacy of rules and processes by all parties.

5. Leniency, on the other hand, is completely different. It is where the presumption is in favour of changing the quantity of the workload expected, the difficulty level or quality of the workload expected and often the conditions under which that workload is completed. For example, a professor who decides that a common cold experienced by one student between 10th to 14th April in a period ending 23rd April (when the assignment is due) would mean that (a) a deadline change had to be made at all; and (b) that deadline change must apply to all students.

6. Leniency also involves subscribing to a presumption in favour of the school of thought that people are victims of their circumstances, and therefore setting a low bar for what extenuating circumstances are. For example, many good universities don't accept 'computer problems' as extenuating circumstances and specifically forbid those considering extenuating circumstance claims from granting such claims. Yes, computers do crash. We know that. But if the assignment was due on 23rd April and you have been working on it since the 8th, why didn't you make appropriate use of backup technology? Why, for example, did you not take appropriate care to save your work multiple times (particularly that which was the output of periods of vigorous composition) on external drives? Yes, submission portals for online assignments can be slow in periods of high traffick. You may have known that. So why, when your assignment was due on 11:59pm of 23rd April, are you attempting to upload at 11:58 and 45 seconds, failing, submitting at 12:05am and claiming extenuating circumstances when a deduction is slapped on you? Could you not have done that (submitting your work) perhaps a few hours (maybe up to a day or so) earlier? Yes, several assignments might be due on the same day (again, 23rd April, 11:59pm). For Assignment A, why didn't you prioritise properly? Why didn't you remember that more students were taking the course for which it was an assessment, and upload your completed work a little earlier/why didn't you complete the work earlier? Why did you give more priority to Assignment B than A? Why did you start Assignments A and B five days later than Assignment C, knowing before that all three were due on 23rd April at 11:59pm? Yes, again, portals do crash, that's fine. Your three assignments A, B and C were due on 23rd April, you study at a flashy uni, the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and North Koreans banded together (along with the paid assistance of Belgian renegades) and carried out a massive DDOS attack on your uni's submission portal on the 14th to access experimental data that the Physics department students are working on, meaning submission portals etc. are all down. Do you get new, extended deadlines? Of course you do! Leniency would involve not asking or considering any of these questions, or just surface-level consideration.