Lawsikho Blog

Many mid-career or senior professionals realise that their career has plateaued. When they were young, they grew very fast, but that growth has now slowed down.  Your income, status or position grows 10-20% per year, 100-200% jumps don’t look feasible now. You earn well and are comfortable, but you are…

Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe that someone can want something so badly that they overcome a life-threatening illness to achieve their dream? Today, let me tell you about two fighters who have chased their dreams of joining the Indian judiciary, no matter what.  Meet Priyanka Sharma, a…

We’d like to begin today with the story of Suman, a graduate of Geeta Institute of Law, and a final-year LLM student from Kurukshetra University. Having met with an accident many years ago, she has a chronic backache which prevents her from studying for more than two hours at a…

Have you attempted the Indian Judiciary exams from one or more states and failed?  Were you a college topper who was sure of success and still failed? Have you not attempted the exams at all because people have told you the questions are simply too tough and the syllabus too…

How many of the following boxes do you tick? You start your preparations early, not at the last moment  You have a clear goal in sight and are not likely to lose focus You can stay disciplined for more than a year You do not give up easily You are…

Addressing a seminar in New Delhi in February 2022, then Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana said there was a need to both increase the number of judges in India, and to fill existing vacancies urgently. Of course, he was speaking from his position as the ultimate insider, but according…

In February 2020, the Second National Judicial Pay Commission issued a revised pay proposal for all judicial officers in the lower judiciary, whereby salaries would increase to three times the existing pay scales.  As per the pay commission’s report, judges in lower courts will now draw INR 80,000-1 lakh per…

How many of you have tried to become Independent Directors (IDs) and failed? How many of you discussed this with friends or colleagues and were discouraged? How many of them told you that this was too big a dream, and hence not achievable? Some of you may also say, I…

As you may know, any business disruptions or crises have historically been followed by a rise in fraudulent practices and corporate misgovernance. And Covid-19 has been the biggest business disruptor of our times.  A recent survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP in association with the Institute of Directors (IOD)…

About 15 years ago, India’s corporate sector was put to a severe test. Because in 2009, we saw the unveiling of the biggest scandal in corporate India’s history with the Satyam Computer Services scam.  That scam is relevant to this discussion because it resulted in an unprecedented mass exodus of…