As the much needed break begins, we’ve got yet another cryptic crossword from Aman Vasavada (Batch of 2021)! Each clue here is a puzzle in and of itself! Having completed another online trimester and faced with the daunting possibility of facing yet another one – nostalgia for good ol’ law school days runs at an all time high – let’s see if you can put that to good use and figure out our clues! [PS: For solving a cryptic crossword, try and decode the wordplay in the clues rat

This article has been written by Aditya Mehta and Sarangan Rajeshkumar (Batch of 2018) Why does the New Year start on January 1 if Jesus was born on December 25? This is a question that has bothered us for a long time and none of the explanations that we could find on the Internet seemed to make any sense. One explanation that is offered is that while December 25 is the day of Christ’s ‘immaculate conception’, it is on New Year’s Day that he was actually born. Although this m

This article has been written by Aditya Mehta and Sarangan Rajeshkumar (Batch of 2018) Why does the New Year start on January 1 if Jesus was born on December 25? This is a question that has bothered us for a long time and none of the explanations that we could find on the Internet seemed to make any sense. One explanation that is offered is that while December 25 is the day of Christ’s ‘immaculate conception’, it is on New Year’s Day that he was actually born. Although this m

This article was written by Spadika Jayaraj (Batch of 2016). “I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky” – R. Kelly, I Believe I Can Fly (1998) It was a warm summer evening in 2004. A group of young law schoolites were sitting around in a circle on Ganga terrace, doing what young law schoolites often do on Ganga terrace. It was just like any other evening, but if one looked closely, they could see that the young men had with them some interesting condiments- a fistf

This article was written by Spadika Jayaraj (Batch of 2016). “I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky” – R. Kelly, I Believe I Can Fly (1998) It was a warm summer evening in 2004. A group of young law schoolites were sitting around in a circle on Ganga terrace, doing what young law schoolites often do on Ganga terrace. It was just like any other evening, but if one looked closely, they could see that the young men had with them some interesting condiments- a fistf