In absurdness

Okay, its 2.51 am and I got this damn sociology end term tomorrow but still somehow I can't stop myself from penning this down. For one, m happy that I finally did write something for this blog… nw fewer curses from yash, I guess. Anyways, what dragged me to my laptop amidst that crappy shit(no offences!) of gender, caste, varna, class, panchayat n how some toda tribe marries in some corner of this world, blah blah… was the fact that it suddenly dawned on me…. 5 more days and am done with my 2nd trimester… NOOO… it feels like it just started a week back or something…
the day when we were back from our term break… all chirpy n fresh…when we stood at our classroom door guessing which prof is gonna teach us next… n not to forget the awe n…. Okay awe… on the face of our 2nd years seeing their future SOL classes… n that freshers..which just feels like… what… couple of days back or something??? N stetsons n tankha n cbcl… phew!!!

Seems like flashes in time….

Lotsa moments if I recount them back…
n it still feels so quick as if time just kept on flying by…

No doubt I m dying to finish off these last papers and run home, shop, meet old friends, relax, njoy, sleeeeeeeep… but at the same time I don’t want this trimester to end… perhaps to stay for a lil longer so that we can live our 1st year more….

Hfff! Its in here where you feel, no matter how much you curse it, hate it, rejoice it, miss it, crib about it... you just can't stop loving NLIU…

2 trimesters down the line n it makes me realise… I have fallen in love with this place…

N time continues to fly by…

Shit!!!

3.30!!!!!! I'm so gonna flunk socio tomorrow!!!!


-Shreya

Never Again….Mind It!

Shejal Verma

23rd, 24th and 25th !!! Yes!! The day really came when I boarded in train for going my home-sweet-home…Ah! So I was in fact going home…flowing like a breeze, I euphorically and safely boarded the train and the journey began…..So what`s new in that? I`ll tell you-
The following conversation took place between me and my co-passenger (sorry I don’t remember his name ) just before few minutes when the train reaches Raipur and I am proud to clarify his misconceptions about the `So called legal profession` (in his terms)…
(The co-passenger will be addressed as Mr. X…No intentions to take a particular name.)
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Take One….Action!
Mr. X: Alone?
Me (With a doubtful expression): Err…Yup
Mr. X: Where are you going?
Me: Raipur
Mr. X: I see
Me: What??
Mr. X: Oh! Nothing…! So which in which class are you? (That’s not his mistake…I hardly look a 1st year student! )
Me (Gladly): Pursuing B.A. LL.B (Hon.) from National Law Institute University, Bhopal
Mr. X: Oh…I am so sorry, you don’t look so old to study in….what college?
Me (with not a very good look): National Law Institute University, Bhopal
Mr. X: Exactly. “To vakil banogi…”
“Ha”, I said.
“Ajkal kaun banta hai?”
Now that was the limit…. “Not again”, I said. People think there is no other profession than engineering and medical. You utter them the word `law` and instantly (more faster than 3*108 m/s ), a beautiful picture of a man wearing white shirt, and black pant pops up. It is melancholy that they can hardly think beyond this. I had already given divine knowledge to a plethora of people about the great importance and scope of legal profession but this man poured water to all my labour.

“Ok”, I thought, “lets wash off his mind (Ummm…firstly, finding his mind would be a much better idea!)”
“Do you know what exactly Legal profession is?”
A straight forward `No`………..Expected
So I`ll have to begin it from the beginning….
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Take Two…..action!
“The practice of law is indeed a wonderful experience. As a naïve, you get to know what actually governs not only your but other countries, acquaint with your rights and duties, problems of the masses and a great opportunity to help them when you enter into it and a lot and lot more (Of course I Don’t know everything coz I m too just a beginner.. ). It is in demand because of the changing scenario in the regulations made by the Government vis-à-vis changing social structure. The world is beyond Physics, Chemistry and Math. The scope of legal profession has widened since many years and is increasing day by day. And 11 NLUs (for common masses, I’ll reframe it to as 11 National Law Universities) together with many law colleges provide a concrete base to cultivate and transform ourselves into a rational thinking and responsible individual, where decisions are ought to be taken by mind and not by heart.
It’s a profession where you can actually raise voice for……”
Chai, coffee, cold drinks, fruity!!!

No no!!! not that!!! It was a typical chai wala with a typical voice (I wish I could convey the sound effect to my readers. As for now, be happy with the imaginative picture you have drawn in your mind!)

So where I was? Yes, “It’s a profession where you have the authoritative right to argue for the interests of the people concerned.”
After having said this much, I sensed that the man was indeed listening to all my `su-wakyas` like a diligent `shishya`….

Continuing further…
“There are many fields you can opt in law like corporation law, civil law, criminal law, international law, labour law, patent law, tax law and so on.
The importance of legal profession in a developing country like India is so much that it can`t be illustrated (Sometimes, it becomes difficult to describe the simplest things…But I don`t think law is that easy.)
Lastly, I`ll tell you who we are.
We are those who are concerned with the protection of rights of the people, trying in every way that they are not infringed, representative of clients, who work for the country and give our best to improve the status of the society by making the citizens aware of their laws.”
“WE ARE LEGAL ACTIVISTS….. .”
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Scene Three….action!

Me: I think that’s enough to make you understand what the legal profession is about. Hope I`d be able to tell more when we meet the next time….
Mr. X: No no, its fine! I mean fantabulous! I really didn`t know the importance of this subject and its vastness! Meri galti.
“So next time when you meet someone who is completely alien to this great field, just bring him out of darkness by giving a sweet lecture of mine, verbatim.”

The train whistled and entered to the Raipur Junction.

“Time for me to go…..Hope to see you again! Bye!”
Mr. X: Bye. Have a great day Ms. Legal Activist!
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Pack up

So this was all about my journey. I really felt great that I could explain my co-passenger the vitality of my subject. A memorable trip indeed…
Catch you later….

just to remind us all...

hey friends..!! i've written this poem much to remind us all...about the few reasons we are here in NLIU..here it goes..

The stories of making of lawyers ,
The sagas of truth tellers in this world of mirage,
Where the false and injustice pile up,
And dampen my nation with their evil collage,
Being the lawyers in process, let’s not forget one thing that should be,
That we are here to change the system and give a ray of glee

Decades will come, centuries will go,
The closed doors of courtrooms will put up a good show
But the soft hearts covered in tough black attires,
Who will still have a feather of love beyond their satires!
My nation still calls for those few hearts,
Who will think par making money and rising charts!

Away from the worry of placements, away from the hunger of grades
Lets give one more chance to ourselves, to look at the sun beyond the shades
One fair rising sun we had decided to be a lawyer,
Let’s not let the wick go off and extinguish the fire,
My country, my nation, my people still stretch hands in hope,
some1 will come to support my paralysed nation, and wake it up from a dope


- AKSHATA NAMJOSHI

Entries for "Wavelength"..!!

Hey people,
This is a request to everybody who is reading this post, to please,please, please submit a write-up...Ok, not write-up as in write-up "write-up".. but it can be poetry, articles, jokes, cartoons, book or movie reviews, agony aunt columns or anything you are good at...
Requirements:
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2) no defamations... :P ( no taking names, unless it is for a good cause!!)
3) submissions to be made at the earliest, but definitely at your convenience.
4) It should be fun to read...( That it will be, I'm sure of!!)

So, you need not be a writer to give in your entries... You just have to be a little creative, innovative and imaginative, which we all are..Atleast we can give it a shot, right??
And all of us can spare just half an hour for a nice, cute, little "something" as our contribution to WAVELENGTH...
The entries can be emailed to litsocjc@gmail.com
Remember, we were ( Past tense, Shit..I correct: are here) to make a difference!!
And, to be really modest about stuff, we are really good...:P
So, All you people out thr.... BUCK UP!!.. ;)
\m/
- Kriti
Member
Literary society, JC

P.S.: Catching up on my diligency @ NLIU, sadly I have foregone all hopes of being diligent ever..*Sigh*
And guys, Please BLOG too!!! :)

The first week @ second trimester

The most eagerly awaited 8 day break had arrived, marking the end of an unforgettable first trimester @ NLIU… Also, bringing in lots of time to make new resolutions ( which had to go into the drain, I knew that even before making them.. :P ) .. like

1) Reducing tapra visits,{ which could not be followed due to cancellation of last lectures for three days, and the hunger grabbed us, which did not let us wait till our hostel mess timings, and we could not resist the tempting tapra visit and then Yash’s Birthday and resisting free food is seriously difficult},

2) Reducing facebooking{ “Oh! Mom, Can’t I even talk to Krithika and Surabhi, when they aren’t here?!”… Aur yahan aake,” Yaar Krithika, I have met this friend online after a long time, bass 5 minute aur!!”},

3) Regularly going through the course { “Oh! It’s the first week… Shreya, kaunsi movie dekhni hai?” and I haven’t even bought the Bare act as yet},

4) Less of skywalks{ “ Krithika, let’s go for a walk!” and the walking and talking extends for like 2 hours at a stretch},

5) No missing classes { Shreya loves idli sambhar more than Contracts… and I feel like catching up on sleep only before LRM}..

6) Blogging @ NLIU { I am blogging after the blog has almost completed the month},

7) Making exhaustive notes in class{ however, we are too exhausted from the last days back-to-back movie watching to even try to listen to the professor}…

8) Sleeping on time { Arrey, ab movies roz roz thodi naa dekhte hain, aur Anindita ka birthday bhi ab seedhe agle saal hi toh aayega naa?!}

9) Visiting library atleast once a week { “Library jaake padhai nahin hoti yaar…” }

10) Attending Saturday debating { “Yaar, is hafte ghar jaane ka mood hai, agli baar dekhti hoon”}

11) Reaching class on time { “ Just one more snooze will not harm”… Shit, Shreya, its 8:30..!” and when I reach the washroom to brush, Apeksha is giving final touches to her hair, thnx to Sam for keeping up our Cluster - waking up late- tradition!!.. and we also have an indepth knowledge of the same happening in the boys hostel, thnx to Parnil..!!}

I guess, many of us, as in the not-diligent ones{ And mind it, it is not innuendo} might have faced these…

The past trimester also bought silly yellow nail paint experiments, more spoilt papers, debars and repeats, back bench faltugiris and shining flashes, beautiful calligraphy on paper, writing our names all over the place,reading novel at the last seat, feeling bad about the Bhopal gas disaster and not listening at the same time, gossiping in class,70% attendance policy, and things which we didn’t want to be repeated in the second trimester. However, since history repeats itself, the second trimester is proving to be a replica to the first!!

Since, I could not follow my planned routine in the first week, I have {in vain} decided to try and follow them in the second week now…
The second week comes as a promise, a new dawn{ Shit, college again}, and I have promised to be a “bit” more diligent!!..

So, I’ll be back with a “bit” more diligency @NLIU or lack thereof… and will certainly let you guys know more about it… :D

I'm not hungry for comments, though you can post a few just to make me feel a bit nicer... :P

-Kriti

Mind-B(L)oggling

My first post on this blog.Since my thought to action process is even slower than snails,it took me 15 days to get my hands off my head and put them on the keypad.The biggest issue to be dealt with was on what topic should I write this post? Thousands of topic crashed on my cerebellum.Foxy.Yash and his sleep:An eternal love story.Gyan Mandir.Environment.Nobel prizes.Indian economy.Then I thought Foxy is one of the most overresearched topics in our university and environment should be left to be dealt by Lavanya.Soch Avani Soch!Dimag ke tantu hila.I seriously needed to write something on the blog.Afterall,Parnil and Yash ate up our 1 and a half hour to make us write something on the blog!I called up my brother,just to have his part of opinion on this.He actually suggested me to write something about Nanotechnological researches or the complex integrated chips or the spectrometrical blah blah blah.Bye bye bhai!Then I understood about the cyclic nature of time.It leaves you standing at the same place from where you have started.(LRM lectures are easy to understand by quoting daily life problems:) ).To blog or not to blog? Blog Avani blog!!Then I started imagining about a magician who just comes and makes my fingers tap on the keyboard and ..and..ting ting!!My cell beeped.Idea cellular limited has no work other than disturbing its customers by asking them to pay Rs.3 to them for knowing about their past births.That gave me an idea to write something on "The disadvantages of advancing technologies".But that would have looked like a school level essay which has been decently copied from the Oxford English essay book.Jaane de Avani!Blogging is not for you.Lets turn off ..no..no.. hibernate the laptop and sleep.

-Avani Verma

WHAT IF...

Today I woke up, found something crawling on my right cheek and yes....I caught it...
A stupid black cricket, trying to get into my ear via my cheek. Soon, I discover a rash, red as blood on my same cheek and I start devising ways to look less ugly owing to the stupid red rash, a gift by the big hearted but small bodied black beast, the idiotic cricket.
Often, there are shrilling noises coming anytime to us in the hostel. Well, there are many reasons like some scary new-hostel-spirit-story, someone jumping in front of you in the dark, Oshi's superb 'tum to thehre pardesi' track and some shrill alarm clocks of some very diligent law students who are not that satisfied by their mid term exam marks (I'm not taking names for security purpose) ;-) and the crawling beasts I was talking about earlier. I am by the way, one of the very few daredevils of the hostel who are not that scared of insects. You can encounter them anywhere......in the toilets, corridors, balconies, rooms, beds and sometimes, food plates. They gather in their batch meetings, which take place every time it rains, the most popular venues for these meetings are window sills and corridor lights. They also take shelter in your hair (I found six small ones when I shampooed after 8 days), sometimes get shut in your laptop and appear out of your sport shoes. Although some of them are quite impressive, like the one in the photograph above.
The hate from these nasty creatures can reach any extent, for example my room mate performed the herculean task of slaying two lizards by the help of an insect spray. I however, show mercy and carry them to a safer place away from such cruel hands (Hope u haven't seen me killing the cockroaches brutally!).
Sometimes I wonder, what this place had been if not our university and I am thrilled at the thought of an insect zoo. This would have made Bhopal an even bigger tourist attraction, and people would have loved to come here. It would have been the first insect zoo in the world and talking economically, it would have fetched more amount than every student's fees combined. So, the next time you see a crawling/flying beauty, do not just ignore or shun it away or scream loudly in fear, just imagine in which section of insects would you keep it in the zoo?

So......until we meet next time on this blog......Buh Byeeeee!


-Durva