Being a Sportsman!

                       BEING A SPORTSMAN  ‘APAARAJIT-POWER UNLEASHED’ WAS ONE OF THE BEST EVENTS I PARTICIPATED IN SYMBIOSIS LAW SCHOOL , NOIDA  AND  WINNING  IN   TWO EVENTS THAT WERE BASKETBALL  AND FIFTEEN HUNDRED METRE RACE PROVED TO BE AN ICING ON THE CAKE FOR ME. I LOVED THE IDEA BEHIND THIS EVENT THROUGH WHICH EVERYBODY GOT A CHANCE TO SHOW THEIR SPORTING  SKILLS AND THE EVENT PROVIDED A FAIR CHANCE FOR EVERYONE TO GET SELECTED IN THE COLLEGE TEAM.

                    THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE OF THE EVENT WAS AMAZING. I WAS A MEMBER OF THE TEAM OF JUNIORS AND IT WAS GREAT TO COMPETE WITH THE SENIORS.IT WAS TOUGH TO COMPETE AGAINST SENIORS BUT AT THE END MY TEAM WON AGAINST THE SENIORS IN BASKETBALL. THOUGH THE SENIORS WERE OUR OPPONENT BUT STILL THE SENIORS WERE HELPING AND SUPPORTING US IN BETWEEN THE MATCHES. THE BEST PART OF THE EVENT WAS THAT IT WAS PLAYED IN A VERY SPORTING AND FRIENDLY SPIRIT BETWEEN THE SENIORS AND THE JUNIORS. THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE WAS VERY GOOD AND I WAS ABLE TO GRAB THE OPPORTUNITY WHICH WAS PROVIDED TO ME BY THE COLLEGE. AT THE END I WOULD LOVE TO GIVE A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE SPORTS CELL OF THE COLLEGE WHO MADE THIS EVENT POSSIBLE.

BY ANIRUDH MEHROTRA

2^ND SEMESTER

DIVISION-A

1st Intra College Sports Fest :)

Do you know what my favourite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
-Mike Singletary

Sports - activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others.

Symbiosis Law School Noida does not believe in competition. It believes in bringing out the best in every member of its family.

We believe in entertainment. We believe in not restricting our teaching to the expanding of our metal horizon, but being active, and fit, and as they say, take the game down! To win, and more importantly, to participate. To not be disheartened by loses, but to respect the efforts we’ve put in.

So here we come. With our very own Sports Meet – APARAAJIT - Power Unleashed;

With a variety of sports ranging from Cricket to Football, to Basketball to Volleyball. And Athletics.  Table Tennis to Badminton. And to pinch your mind moves, Chess!

We see you perform, and we cheer for you. We see you win, and we congratulate you on working so hard.

Because we are a family, We encourage!

To all the participants – GOOD LUCK!

To all the Organizers – When this work is done, trust me, you’ll get peaceful Sleep!

To the non- participants – Go, Cheer!

As in the words of Phil Jackson -

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

First Birthday :D

When you are at school, we get various ideas about getting out of the house, from the protective shell of our parents, to explore, to experience and to build ourselves. Some choose to be rebellious. Some choose to be obedient. Some follow the usual path; some dare to go to the path not taken.

A year back, we decided to do the same.

To build our name; to being a part of something; to be inclined towards our destiny; which landed us to the place where we are standing and looking behind to the journey of building this place, and ourselves, brick by brick, inch by inch, one day at a time.

Last year, about October end, and November, the college wasn’t starting! We were so skeptical. People criticized our decision to be a part of a new college, and risking our whole career. But then, what is like if there are no risks involved? And today, we don’t regret the risk taken a year back. The dices we threw in a pitch black tunnel, knowing, that it would strike the highest when we emerge to the other lit end of this tunnel.  

We learnt to accept that “Sundays might be a holiday” and grew to enjoy this.

We started with knowing two teachers, and one staff member, to almost 15 teachers and increasing count of staff members (non-teaching)

We learnt the definition of an institute as a family.

We proved that there is a thing called “Super-Cool” faculty.

We leant to judge the characters of people around us; to make friends, to trust and to live up to that trust.  

To respect each other

To understand that every corner we turn in this college, there is a new talent emerging at every new step and acknowledging it.

To making a building alive. To building a college, home.

To learn to welcome new members, and teaching them the rules of family that comes naturally to us when we are in campus.

To be proud of what we have achieved in so less time, being modest and bend our head in gratitude and never stopping to achieve something new.

To persevere, and being dedicated.

To believing with all our heart that the decision to be a part of the Symbiosis Family was a wise decision, and having no regrets.

To having complains, and to resolving them amicably. 

To trying to hate college and yet never taking a step back when it was about the college.

To being nostalgic, and happy about the memories we created.

To being a part of this, and being proud!

SLS Noida has become a home away from home for all of us. Being the very first batch, and introducing all amount of cultures, and traditions, competitions and ideas have made us the architect of the soul of this college.

We have spent 365 days here. One year! Already done! We have seen ups and downs. We have laughed, we have cried. We have fought, we have made amendments. We have cribbed, we have joked. We have shared what a lot of institutions cannot achieve. We have lived through the feeling of creating what SLS seems today.

Always proud, and the part of the wonderful family …

Happy First Birthday Symbiosis Law School, Noida!

May you live long, and bask in the glory of new achievements with every sunrise!

Cheers!

Practical Procedure over Theoretical Knowledge?

What is the difference between an Advocate and a Lawyer?

This is a common question that that keeps coming up. Being a first year law student it was pretty upsetting on my part that even I couldn’t figure out a perfect definition of disparity between them.

My displeasure was short lived, as Mr. Saurabh Ajay Gupta cleared the air for us first year students at Symbiosis Law School, Noida.

His perfect words being: An Advocate and a lawyer are both holding a law degree, but an Advocate is registered under the Advocates Act, 1961 with the Bar Council of India and is entitled to practice law in any court in India and a lawyer is not enrolled. A lawyer can give legal advice but cannot appear before a court of law. Further there are restrictions on an advocate on employment whereas a lawyer can profess any vocation or business and can undertake private employment.

Nobody can frame a perfect answer than an advocate himself.

Mr. Saurbh Ajay Gupta who is an advocate on record in the Supreme Court of India and additional advocate general (Punjab), currently working as junior advocate to Mr. Ram Jethmalani, one of most renowned advocate in India. Being a graduate of Symbiosis Law School, Pune; he was more than happy to grace us symbian’s with his presence to elucidate the relevance of practical training in the field of law.

What does one require to become a good lawyer? This can only be explained by the major prerequisite of practical training. Lets take the case of a doctor: A doctor may have studied each and every book about the human body and may be well learned in the theoretical knowledge but that will still be termed as conjectural because until he performs practical training on a patient, be it as little as checking the pulse, he cannot be of much use to the society except for parting with his advice. Same thing goes for a lawyer that knowledge of law is not enough until he applies what he has learnt.

A lawyer only becomes a lawyer when he pleads law and the law students can get close to their profession by getting internships and participating in moot courts. These are the two paramount ways for practical training in our field. Mr. Gupta comprehended more on the internship aspect during our five year college term.

His personal opinion on internships being:

“No one teaches you, offers to help you, or keeps you under scrutiny during internships. You need to take the initiative to work, to learn, to perform yourself”

It is as simple as that. Internship is learning what is going on in the real world. Practical procedure requires action and implementation on your part, so more importantly as an intern we should leave our footprints i.e. basically a good impression on the people we’re working under, as Mr. Gupta before joining Mr. Jethmalani was working as an intern under him during his college years.

Further, talking about advocacy: There is a general notion of law students that once out of law school, they’ll only want to practice in the Supreme Court or the High Courts of India and anything below that will be demeaning to their stature. Well this is completely wrong. To be precise, there should be a proper level of accession i.e. one should begin from a district court because all the big cases which reach the higher courts originate at the lower courts. To make this more interesting, Mr. Gupta stated that most interesting murder cases trial proceedings start from the lower courts itself therefore all of us should be well versed in all fields of law, and hence should be acquainted with the procedure of filing cases in the courts and their respective jurisdictions.

The session ended with some classic quotes stated by Abraham Lincoln being

"A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade" which further extends to

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

By which Mr. Gupta made his opinion clear on ethical practice which basically meant always advocating a good cause.

Hope the first year interns are having a nice time at their respective internships and learning as well as gaining experience along with it.

                                                                                  

                                                                                              Ajitesh Singh, SLS NOIDA