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I write this as I wait in the spacious, neat and suave office of Mr. Pranith Nanavati, Patent & Trademark Attorney. I’ll be interning here during the month of May. This is my third internship in the span of two years at GNLU, after HRLN and K.K. Manan & Associates. I’ve interned less than most others in my batch have.
An internship is supposed to be a work experience where one is required to assist an advocate in all kinds of lawyering work, drafting documents, helping in research work, accompany the advocate to court and watch him plead or simply do nothing! Doing nothing is the best description most internships can be given. Last semester while interning in Delhi, I actually understood that not all interns are lucky to get work while interning. Work is ideally supposed to be snatched.
The idea of being a patent and trademark attorney had crossed my mind once in the first year when I gave up the idea of being a hardcore IPR attorney. I was told that one needs a study background in Science to get there. I still don’t know anything about IPR or patents or trademarks despite the fact that one of my parents is a patent expert and both of them know a great deal about IPR. However, they’re just words to me. I have no idea what to say if Mr. Nanavati asks me as to what these words mean. Pity, I’m interning in a Patent & Trademark firm! Continue reading →

Life sometimes takes unexpected turns. I’ve generally been the last one to notice such turns in my life. However, there have been certain exceptions.. situations where I was the creator of such events. These events were my decisions. Its a very nice feeling to enjoy the consequences of your own decisions which is why our decisions should be truly our’s, most often. The last time I posted, I didn’t know that my next post would have this paragraph.

Its been 35 days since I came to Delhi for my internship. I came with no expectations or prejudice about the kind of work I would be given. I was interning under Mr. K.K. Manan. I came to know that he was a very successful lawyer and a big name in the HC and the Trial courts. By the end of the internship, I realized that bigger the name, lesser the work (this rule applies at least upto 2nd year internships) My first day was quite unusual at the internship. The morning itself began in the most unusual fashion. I broke the heel of my shoe as I got out of the Mandi House Metro Station. I broke the other heel purposely to make it even and easier to walk. Not that I wasn’t scandalized, but I tried my best to keep my brains working holding two broken heels of the shoe I was going to wear the whole day. All day long, I was stuck in the Chamber of my advocate reading some files and taking down certain notes about the grounds of argument and the applicable law. Later, it came in handy when my advocate’s junior wanted a briefing of the case. See! At an internship, every little bit helps. So never give up working. Continue reading →

An year has passed by. It seemed like yesterday when I joined college. Everything seemed stagnant, but when I look back today, things have undoubtedly changed… for good. Its been a joyride, more or less and I realize that life has its own way of teaching us and it takes its own time. I have grown, this year. I have learnt (everything, even abuses!). I have also seen, the most beautiful and the nastiest things. I can distinguish between being meek and being timid; being innocent and being stupid; I have learnt that nobody around deserves more than one ‘sorry’. The Indian economy won’t face fiscal deficit if I don’t apologize a zillion times. I also realized that not everyone is worth my goodness. Some people do deserve my nasty side. I also realized that what others think is none of my business. Continue reading →