This article has been written by Anonymous. The cover picture has been illustrated by Gunjan Jadiya (Batch of 2023). Earlier this month, the NLS Feminist Alliance/the Alliance of Oversensitive Women (‘AOW’) sent out a call for applications to join its “Core Team” of members. The mail informed readers that “While everyone involved with AOW is a part of its activities, the Core Team is tasked with conceptualising the agenda and organising events, on and off-campus”, and went on

This article has been written by Anonymous. This image is from Pass the Mic Youth (@passthemicyouth), a youth-led and youth-centered podcast and blog (info via Medium). The most defining event in my student life, before I entered college, was the institutional murder of Rohith Vemula. I was compelled to think about my caste/class privilege and read Ambedkar – which left me aghast by the level of apathy and downright hostility I saw everywhere, in my family and friend circles.

This piece has been written by Shruti Kunisetty (Batch of 2022). To the uninitiated, PESIT idli [“Pesit”] refers to a famous idli stall on the Hosakerehalli Road (try pronouncing it) that sells idlis for 30 odd bucks. It’s open only between 4 and 6 am. To your average lawschoolite, it offers the perfect culmination to a long night of slogging. Here is what a typical Pesit plan for men looks like: Man 1: Bro, let’s go to Pesit! Man 2: Yeah, let’s! Here is how women plan to go

Number of Woke Bois at the National Law School at an All Time High Despite extensive investigation, source of wokeness remains a mystery October 6, 2018 | Bengaluru | By: Mukta Joshi India’s finest law university sure does boast of the wokest of Woke Bois™, but where are they coming from? The Quirk team recently undertook an inquiry in an attempt to find some answers to the discrepancy between the number of men enrolled in feminist courses at the National Law School of India

^ When they say women can be anything they want provided they look like a flawless Rajput goddess Our in-house movie enthusiast and writer of  last holiday’s much anticipated Facebook movie reviews, Megha Mehta (Batch of 2019), takes one for the team and reviews a Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie (Padmaavat) for her new fortnightly column: Movies with Megha. I’ll admit, I am the unapologetic Bollywood addict in my group of friends. I am that hypocritical bitch who seems all intell

This author has chosen to remain anonymous as the goal of this article is to point out a systemic issue, rather than relating a personal experience. The author hopes to strike a chord with multiple women, and in doing so believes that the author could be anyone really. “She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, an

This piece was written by Megha Mehta (Batch of 2019). This article attempts to document my experiences as a ‘Lone Female Traveler’-aka, the LFT. Once a rare species, this creature is now spotted quite frequently in-habitat, nervously waiting at deserted metro stations, clutching her purse to her heart in a sensual embrace on shady sidewalks, pretending to be engrossed in a non-existent Whatsapp group chat at cafes, and sometimes, giving wistful looks to couples at bars. LFT’

It’s four am. I can’t sleep. The article still bothers me. It’s still up on the Quirk page, still out there promoting rape culture and every day it stays up is another day a sexual assault victim is trivialized, and an assaulter is reminded he can be given a free pass. (Hereinafter, I will be using male pronouns for assaults and female pronouns for victims, for ease of expression, although both victims and assaulters can be from either gender.) Dear Author, This is a public r

This article was written by Spadika Jayraj (Batch of 2016) and Radhika Goyal (2019). Every year, at NLSIU’s Convocation, a gold medal is handed out to the best graduating Girl Student of the year. This is in addition to the medals handed out to the top ranked students. This affirmative action medal is a vestige of a time when women were scarcely even seen on the rolls in higher education, let alone seen performing exceedingly well. While most avenues remain a ‘Man’s World’ ev