Kartick Maheshwari

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Kartick Maheshwari, your best friend who is also your worst enemy. Total package. He has been protecting his honor from desi women in Philly, after all since he will have the highest income in your batch next year Marwari mamma's in Calcutta have already got their daughers lined up.

"Slimeball", "lovely", or "Maheshwari" (among the many nicknames he's picked up overtime), besides richly deserving the first one, also happens to be a great great friend who would go to any extent to support or defend his friends. His awesome sense of humour, especially at the expense of his friends,was always welcome from everybody. As the long-suffering roommate of his close friend Vishnu, Slime showed his roommates how roommates are not only tolerable but also can be a great source of support and encouragement. His main target in 2007 Ganga was of course Captain who was tactically introduced to all those brilliant computer games and magazines just on the eve of exams or project submissions. But a guy who always had jokes lined up about people was also the best sport when it came to jokes about him --no one else could have lived through all those jokes about his (tragic) liason with that fair PYT :). [vvs]

And beneath that much laughed at CGPA (especially by his close friends), lay one of the sharpest commercial law minds in the class (if not, the sharpest!). As much as his mind was tuned into the hottest gossip of the class it was also tuned into the stock market or the most recent SEBI notification or the movement of the Sensex (which was aptly renamed the Slimex in his honour!). His commercial acumen was at the fore when Economic Times published several articles in their "Corporate Counsel" section from a law student who's vowed to be the Gordon Gekko of the legal world ("The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." -- Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street c.1987; Kartick Maheshwari (as himself) in "Marwari Liar" c.2006). [vvs]

After a much enjoyed stint at Ivy League U Penn, Slime turned down so many offers from glitzy New York and Bombay law firms that he's lost track -- but he's going to be joining tony Davis Pork Wardwell and says he hopes to make partner in five years! However, the biggest compliment that can be made about him is that now there are loads of his classmates (some of whom cant be named :) ), juniors (and even seniors) who want to follow in his footsteps and, as one put it "do a Kartick Maheshwari". [vvs]

I think Madu would like this, and it's too complicated to create a log in id to upload files.

The NUJS chaps have taken the India Today rankings (where they were not mentioned in the top 20 law colleges!) rather to heart, and i've come across the following letter that they propose to send to the Editor of the Magazine!

Quote:

"To Mr. Aroon Purie Editor-in-Chief India Today

31st May 2006

Dear Sir

Sub: Non-inclusion of NUJS in India Today’s 2006 Rankings of Law Universities

This letter has reference to the recent rankings of Universities published by your magazine (in its issue for the week May 30-June 5, 2006), and in particular, to the non-inclusion of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata [NUJS] in the list of the best twenty law Universities purportedly identified by your magazine.

The objective of the signatories to this letter may be usefully clarified at this juncture. Our objective is to demonstrate, through cogent evidence and examples, how the non-inclusion of NUJS in the list of ranked law universities is clearly perverse. Further, that such non-inclusion is clearly reflective, at best, of gross negligence and incompetence, and at worst, of mala fides.

For the reasons elaborated below, we also demand a retraction of the said Rankings (at least to the extent of non-inclusion of NUJS) and a reasoned re-consideration of NUJS’s appropriate place in the ranking of law universities.

At the outset, we are aware that the ranking of centre’s of academic excellence is an inherently subjective exercise, and that there can exist, to an extent, legitimate differences of opinion amongst informed analysts. For this reason, our objective is the following paragraphs will be to clearly demonstrate that while the exact place of ranking of NUJS might be a matter of debate, its non-inclusion in the top twenty law universities in India, is perverse, and entirely unacceptable.

In a short span of six years, NUJS has clearly established itself as a premier law school, not merely at a national, but at an international level. We would be interested in hearing your response to the following (illustrative) pieces of evidence.

 Academic Excellence

Alumni of NUJS have studied at, and have presently secured admission to, the most reputed postgraduate law courses internationally. For example, the only Indian law student to secure the Rhodes Scholarship for 2006, is an alumni of NUJS. Further, NUJS students have also secured the prestigious Felix Scholarship to study at Oxford University, and the Vanderbilt Scholarship to study at New York University School of Law. Other Universities to which alumni of NUJS are presently studying (or have secured admission to) include Harvard Law School, Cornell University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, American University and the National University of Singapore.

Further, students and faculty of NUJS have published in practically every noteworthy Indian legal journal, and a number of prominent foreign ones. Prominent examples include the Economic and Political Weekly, the Georgetown Journal of International Environmental Law, the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights and the Indian Journal of International Law.

To our knowledge, this record of academic excellence is unmatched by any other Indian law school in recent years, with the one (probable) exception of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

 National and International Competitions

The performance of NUJS in various national and international competitions (including but not limited to moot court competitions, which are exclusively for law universities) is also unmatched. In our considered opinion, the consistent (and cumulative) performance of our University in this regard is nothing short of exemplary. For example, NUJS has emerged victorious in three international moot court competitions, viz, the Wilhem C. Viz International Commercial Arbitration, Vienna, the Stetson Moot Court Competition on International Environmental Law and the Wilhem C. Viz (East) International Commercial Arbitration, Hong Kong. It may interest you to note that, with regard to the Vienna Moot, NUJS was the first Indian and only second Asian law University to emerge Champions. Further, NUJS has represented India at the international rounds of the prestigious Phillip C. Jessup Moot on three occasions, and registered the second-best ever Indian performance at the Manfred Lachs Moot. At the national level, NUJS has won practically every significant Moot Competition over the past six years. Illustrative examples include the Bar Council of India Moot, the Kerala Law Academy Moot (for four consecutive years), and the M.M. Singhvi Moot. The performance of NUJS students in other extra-curricular and co-curricular activities has been equally impressive.

 Campus Recruitment

For two consecutive years, NUJS has had near cent percent placement in its Campus Recruitment Programme. For example, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A.Shroff & Co., widely regarded as the premier Indian law firm, has cumulatively (over the past two years) recruited nearly forty alumni of NUJS. To our knowledge, the cumulative recruitment of this number of students is unmatched by any other law school. We would be interested to know whether your magazine either disputes our assessment of Amarchand as the leading law firm in India, or believes that a large number of law schools have had similar recruitments. Other leading firms where NUJS alumni are working include AZB & Associates, Luthra, Dua, and New Delhi Law Offices. Other students have completed judicial clerkships at the Supreme Court, or have worked with prestigious non-governmental organizations such as South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre and Centre for Civil Society. Leading companies that have recruited include Reliance. Tata and Sahara. Again, we would be interested in knowing exactly how many of the twenty ranked universities, even remotely match this record.

 Administration and Governance

The Chancellor of NUJS is the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India. Members of the governing Council of NUJS include present and retired justices of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, as well as various High Courts, and many other distinguished personalities. The founding Vice Chancellor of NUJS was Dr. N.R. Madhava Menon, an internationally renowned academic, who also served as the founding Director of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and who is widely credited with the inception of the concept of five-year law schools in India. The present Vice Chancellor of NUJS is Dr. B.S. Chimni, a former Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University and an internationally reputed scholar of international law. We believe the astute management and leadership NUJS has been blessed with, is further evidence of our credible claim to being a leading Indian law school today.

We would like a speedy response to the concerns raised in this letter. You would appreciate that we, as students, are entirely unaware about whether NUJS was, at any stage, considered for the rankings. To our knowledge, no request for factual information was made from the University. In the event that the college was in fact under consideration and factual information was requested from the administration, we would like a clarification regarding the date and form of that request for factual information. We would be grateful for further clarifications regarding the response from the NUJS administration. In the event that any response from the administration was considered unsatisfactory or incomplete, we would be grateful for information regarding the follow-up action that was taken on your part.

In conclusion, the larger issue at hand is that a University that is demonstrably within the top few ranks of Indian law schools (by any conceivable standard) has been entirely omitted in your rankings. The inevitable impact of these rankings is that a large number of prospective law students will be dissuaded from applying to NUJS, and that this may have a incalculably detrimental impact on innumerable careers. We believe that your claim of carrying out a credible, comprehensive and methodologically sound survey is proven false. We reiterate our demand for a retraction of the rankings of law universities and a reasoned re-appraisal of the ranking of NUJS. In the event that you require verification of any of these claims, we assure you that the same can readily be done from the University administration, as also many sources of information in the public domain.

We reserve the right to publicize this letter, and the grievances enumerated therein, through all available means, in what we believe is the larger interest of Indian legal education.

In anticipation of a speedy response,

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,

XXXXX"

Unquote.

I will not name myself or my source. but i think we can all gloat and bask in the fading glory of our college (and continuing ignominy those NUJS naukars)

Regards and enjoy.

Dicha Kabadi hai... The only person who'd publicize remarks about himself. Ref. Vishnu's 'looks like a snake lunging for Richa Roy' (wrt Richa's page three pic), Kartick calls up everyone to make sure they've read the email... (thinking about Snakes, Slimeball is also rumoured to have a snake tucked away somewhere :) Incidentally, in the first year the women decided that Kartick had the best ass in class!!