#india studyblr

hi guys! i am alya, 23 and a law student from india. techincally i am not new to scene but i decided to fully immerse myself into this vibrant community to keep myself productive and maybe make like minded friends. :)

a little about me:

i am in lawschool and currently am in my 4th year or 7th semester. i have opted for two of my favorite law fields as my honours so let’s see how that works out.

i love watching documentaries on just about anything, true crime to nature, i will watch anything. also, i love podcasts!

currently i am learning german too! i have just started with it after studying it in school years back, so please be patient with me. 

sanrio is my love and my favorite charachter is cinnamoroll <3

and yeah, i have two cats and i love animals too :>

please like and/or reblog this to be mutuals here :)

   ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ─── ─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ─── ─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆

                                         𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢

                                       1:05  ───|────── 2:53

Hi guys I'm alyastudies and I'm new here. You guys can call me Alya.

I'm a 3rd year law student from India, enrolled in a 5 year B.A. LL.B. Honours course.

I'm on a semester break right now and my 5th semester starts in a few weeks.

I also love dogs, so there will be occasional pictures of dogs.

Also, if you have any questions about gap years, CLAT, law in general and in India, don't hesitate to hit me up.

I don't know if this a question i should be asking you, but how rewarding/satisfying do you find academia to be? Especially considering how you must've solid ideas on development, did you ever consider going for the civil services in India? And if you did, how did you choose one over the latter?

Hi! No, thanks so much for asking, that's such a great question that I have a somewhat rambling answer for.

I haven't been in academia long enough yet to know if it's satisfying/rewarding or not. I definitely really enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm so grateful to have the time, resources and support to do this kind of sustained research. It's not something I can imagine existing outside of academia.

I didn't especially want to do the civil services because I wanted to research. Don't get me wrong, I want to be around and be useful for public policy and policy-making; I just think research is the way I can be more useful. And in this sense, a lot of things in my current department at the university and in academic spaces I've been in before this do bother me. Most of all the sort of predetermined contempt for all things government. It's like an assumption that governments are bad through and through, and that you're somehow removed from what a government or a state is, and I've always hated that. And its close companion, especially in spaces claiming to be leftist: that there's no room for gradual reform or incrementalism, that the only way out is to dismantle or abolish the state — without ever explaining what this means. I don't enjoy the general aloofness or the lack of pragmatism dressed up as moral virtue.

Which brings me to this: I like research, I love what I'm doing, but I also miss being around policy. I'm so glad that I worked in the sector I did, that I had a chance to find out what governance or policy or the state means before I made up my mind about it. I need what I'm doing to be useful. I especially need it to be useful back in India, because if it's not that, then what's the point? I know I'd like to stick with research, so an ideal scenario would be a job that gives me this kind of time but also has some public profile.