LLY is the second published novel by a law student this year after Join the Bar by a 20-year old NLSIU Bangalore student Brajesh Rajak.
Centered around the lead character Abhishek Banerjee - whom the author has named after his own first name - the story deals with the lives of law students in a fictitious law school “Animus” and their day-to-day trysts including their love lives.
“The story is based in a law school, life during five years of college,” Bose told Legally India. “Basically, the book is about following your dreams. After we finish school and come out of our homes and take admission in a law school and our journey there on. It’s about our dreams and aspirations and the obstacles we face while we set out to achieve certain objectives and how far we succeed.”
He added, “For the title I wanted a mix of law and love and it took me three years to finish the novel.”
The author of novels ‘In pursuit of Infidelity’ and ‘In Pursuit of Ecstasy’ Sujata Parashar has termed Bose’s LLY as a ‘romantic fiction’ in a book review done by her.
Parashar wrote: “This is a simple story of a student. A law student. There are no major twists and turns. It depicts a student’s life as it is. The challenges, the concerns, the sorrows and the joys are all related and revolve around the College life including the experience of falling in love for the first time.
“And therein lay its appeal. The author with his simple and precise style (maybe the lawyer effect) of writing effortlessly creates a picture of the College life. One can easily associate her/himself with the characters of the book and their concerns.”
LLY is a 167-page novel priced at Rs 125, published by Mahaveer Publishers.
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2. o publishers: two pairs of lips on a weighing scale on the cover page? really? you make mills and boon look classy.
3. o universe: thank you for making law school fashionable enough to have books written on the experience.
4. o fellow (obnoxious) NLUites: hahahahaha it's an ICFAI fellow! hahahah
5. o Kian: thank you for allowing me my cheap thrills on a public forum.
Love it! :D
by the way, this^ is called trolling. i'm just having a laugh at your expense because you're letting me ;-)
Dude by criticising others without even ascertaining their quality of work doesn't amount to sense of humour ... you are thereby making a mockery of yourself ... get a life !!
i am also impressed you read the Time magazine and the NY Times; being as I am lazy, I read only rediff messageboards. You are too cool.
since i am in an amused and conciliatory mood, here you go:
I welcome this work of romantic fiction set in an institution purporting to cruelly quell exactly that emotion over a span of five years. I anticipate with curiosity the deeply novel treatment the writer is sure to have given this curiously untouched subject. I agonise in suspense - will the couple nuzzle behind Halsbury's Laws of England? Was their love sparked off over a debate on Dworkinian Rights theories? Does the young lad sigh in wonderment as his inamorata's sugar breath enunciates the scope of High Courts' writ jurisdiction?
all snark aside, i'm genuinely curious to see if ICFAI law school life is anything like mine.
I look forward to spending the sun kissed summer afternoons seeking escape from my claustrophobic rathole in this bustling metropolis by reminiscing my wasted law school life through this book.
I thank thee o wise one.
you feeded a part of his troll, what gall!
http://www.consumercourt.in/university/1737-complaint-against-icfai-university.html
http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/icfai-university-c22724.html
http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/icfai-university-c23645.html
http://www.consumercomplaints.in/bycompany/icfai-university-a14048.html
God help the poor kids! They of course got to find out alternate career options.
ICFAI Business School,
ICFAI Law School,
ICFAI Tech,
ICFAI National College,
ICFAI College of Education etc etc ...
So, are these complaints related to the law school ?
Moreover, its an umbrella university as per UGC. So, please don't associate it with ICFAI Law, Dehradun.
highly unnecessary to criticize and take potshots the university in the context of a positive article on its student.
read this
"I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees" - Bill Gates
Regards,
NUJS Student
Yes, it is only one entrance exam which determines the fate of any student in this country. Be it any profession (IIT-JEE, AIEEE, AIPMT, CPMT, CLAT, CAT etc)
I have personally visited ICFAI Law and also have some of my acquaintances there. So, please don't compel me to open a Pandora's Box here.
P.S.: I hope you intended to mean nationals' 'sole' right and not 'soul' in Line 6 coz there is no difference in the souls of nationals and the "rest".
Cheers!
congratulations, Mr. Troll. Hook, Line and Sinker.
I was just going through the comments and it is sad that you are fighting over the name of college rather than appreciating the work of the author.. Read the novel first and then comment.Going through the comments gave me a feel that National Law School students are just like Rajput school guys living in their own world ,in their own complexes as shown in the movie 'jo jeeta wohi sikander' and don't forget the winner was the modern school guy ... just don't pass comments if any other guy did what you all could not, instead read and then post comment..... and this place is not for finding errors in other person's work ...i know people who have passed from national law schools got placement in top companies and then left job to work for a meager amount as they were not able to cope with work pressure.. ...so guys its your hard work and creativity which pays and not this feeling that a person from ICFAI wrote a book and we could not ...... i am not a law person nor i know anyone ...i am an avid reader ..i read the book and its good...get over this feeling of jealousy ,spend some money ,buy and read it ....
But let us stop being too arrogant to appreciate good things from outside the N-school sphere. The non-N schools too have a life of their own and stories of their own to tell. Just because 5 point some one was set in an IIT, and 2 states was set in an IIM let us not insist that all campus stories should come only from the best institutes in the field. While ICFAI may not be the best law school, that does not mean an ICFAI kid cannot write a good novel. And on a different note, I don't think Dickens spent even a day in an orphanage before writing Oliver Twist or that Stevenson had ever been 'kidnapped'.
I think it is highly unfair to write off a book just because it is written by someone from a lesser known law school. If you dont feel like, dont read it. But do not criticise a book you havent read even a page of.
And it hurts me to see my fellow N-schoolites having to continuously assert their superiority not just other N-schools, but also against smaller fish like ICFAI. Come on guys, Harvard does not compete with Hazra.
Congrats Dude!
Put it another way - would you sympathise with an army clerk who sat behind a desk all his life and wrote a book titled "Guarding Siachen : One day on the life of a soldier" ?
Or how about a court stenographer writing a novel ostensibly based on his "experiences and life in India's superior judiciary".
Think about that.
As for me , I have not a grain of sympathy or appreciation for people who capitalise on thereputation of maw schools without having been to one. For it is a fact that the word 'law school' brings to recall any of the top national schools and certinly not a momey-making racket like ICFAI which operates out of Tripura !! because it failed to get approvals anywhere else.
Please note NUJS' fee is much more than that of ICFAI.(Although NUJS is no doubt one of the best which even I acknowledge). And by the way, there is no NRI quota in ICFAI. So, ICFAI being a private institution charges reasonable amount.
Also note, ICFAI Dehradun and ICFAI Tripura (where there is no law school) are two different universities which come under the category of an umbrella university as per UGC norms.
However, a matter is still pending in SC regarding the granting of degrees to other ICFAI constituents (mostly Engineering courses) from Tripura to other Southern states. But, that is different and have got nothing to do with the law school which is solely based in Dehradun.
secondly, some of us may not like grisham. we would then make fun of him, as we are entitled to.
thirdly, grisham did not write 'romantic fiction'. i do not like romantic fiction, think little of it, and am entitled to make fun of it.
i hope that clarifies the issue.
FYI - Grisham attended the Univ of Missisipi Law School which is a respected law school in the US (which has a million of them). The difference between UoM and Harvard (say) is much less than ICFAI and NUJS. No student in his right mind would want to study at ICFAI - whether law or anything else.
Quite a flight of fancy calling the book, a book about life in law school - really disrespectful to all those who slogged five years at a national law school
Best comment by far?
"Chetan Bhagat syndrome".
Children, just because Chetan Bhagat's book SELLS, doesn't mean it's literature. All it means is that he cleverly found a market (IIT aspirants) and then capitalised the hell out of it. If you're in law school, study law. Live. Experience things. And then return to write. Don't come to us with half baked and sorry stories about your spotty teenage days and late project submissions and then expect to be patted on the back. What are we, your parents? Treat the public with respect.
O Kian Ganz - Include a definition of trolling for these silly people.
Whatever the case may be, he's right when he laments about the innumerable crap available in the bookstores in the name of literature.
His comment was funny, and we should grant him that. Lighten up!
Zomg you're still talking about me? THAT MUST MAKE ME AN AMAZING TROLL B) I SHALL INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT OF TROLLING TO US INDIANS. OHMGAWD I IZ THE EPITOME OF COOLNESS B)
@7. Bro. You is a bad troll. Come face the heat sometime :-)
- Fellow superior troll.
my fellow nationalites, please do not forget morality.
NLSIU
@ A Bose, congrats.
*Pinch of salt, etc.