Dear Young Lawyers:
I have observed that many of you do not keep Practice Notes because you believe that judicial authorities are now easily accessible through technology. Instead of building your Practice Notes ahead of time, many of you simply wait until you are assigned a research task or asked to draft a court process before you begin looking for authorities.
I started keeping a Practice Note in 2010, filling 4 volumes with handwritten summaries and excerpts of principles from law reports before eventually transitioning to writing in longhand on my iPad. Whenever I have a challenging brief or need to prepare for a contentious matter, I consult my notes first, and this usually makes my work easier.
A former colleague, now a High Court Judge, kept their Practice Notes in Microsoft Word format as far back as fifteen years ago. Lawyers who appear before the Judge often commend the Judge’s brilliance, and it doesn’t surprise me. It is difficult to maintain detailed notes on rulings, statutory interpretations, and procedural objections over several years without developing an exceptional command of dispute resolution.
Relying entirely on electronic legal research engines or artificial intelligence tools allows a practitioner to retrieve a judicial authority in seconds, but it cannot substitute for the personal retention that develops when you read a judgment in full and record the principle yourself. When you are on your feet in the courtroom responding to an unexpected objection from opposing counsel, the notes you have digested remain accessible to you in a way an unread search result never can. It will also prevent you from asking for an adjournment or a stand-down just to respond to an unexpected argument from opposing counsel.
If you have not been taking notes since you started practice, it is not too late to begin now.
If the government could open a small 9km patch between DND to Kalindi Kunj, which is already constructed and ready then I wouldn’t had to spend 5 hours today to reach a place 24 kms away. There was thousands others like me today. Imagine the amount of fuel wasted today.
Today there was an over turned truck but otherwise also it takes upward of 90 minutes one side.
These inefficient babus will suck the country dry.
@narendramodi@gupta_rekha@nitin_gadkari@NHAI_Official
EVERY INDIAN SHOULD KNOW AND KEEP THIS BOOKMARKED🔖
REAL ESTATE SCALE:
•1 Gaj = 9 Sq. Ft
•1 Acre = 43,560 Sq. Ft
•1 Bigha = 1,600 – 2,990 Sq. Yards (varies by state)
•1 Katha = 1,361 Sq. Ft
•1 Marla = 272.25 Sq. Ft
•1 Guntha = 1,089 Sq. Ft
•1 Sq. Meter = 10.764 Sq. Ft
•1 Hectare = 10,000 Sq. M (≈ 2.47 Acres)
Am very happy to see lots of acknowledgements coming from various sections of the society on this rare feet accomplished by this young Vedic scholar. Was astonished to see response from the society at Kashi yesterday. Phenomenal it is. In south we may not be able to see like this
CIVILIZATION JUST SENT A MESSAGE
While Silicon Valley debates whether AI will end humanity, a 19-year-old in Varanasi just proved what can never be automated.
Vedamurti Devavrat Mahesh Rekhe completed the Dandakrama Parayanam: 2,000 mantras of the Shukla Yajurveda recited flawlessly over 50 days without a single interruption.
The first human to achieve this in over 200 years.
Not downloaded. Not prompted. Transmitted mouth to ear across 5,000 years of unbroken memory, predating every empire that rose and fell while this chain continued.
The leader of 1.4 billion people personally honored him. Not a billionaire. Not an influencer. A teenager who mastered what his ancestors mastered, in the exact city where they mastered it, using the exact method they used.
Here is what the modern world cannot compute:
No algorithm can replicate this. No server can store it. When the lights go out and the data centers fail, this tradition will still be passing from guru to disciple in the same sacred city where it has lived for millennia.
The West builds monuments to remember.
India builds people who ARE the monuments.
Every civilization that abandoned its transmission chains is now archaeology. Every civilization that maintained them is still here, still speaking, still breathing.
This is not nostalgia. This is not religion. This is the most sophisticated information preservation technology ever developed by humans: the living voice, the trained mind, the unbroken chain.
Empires end. Traditions do not.
A 19-year-old just proved it.
The Ascent Begins.