Comments on: Graduating as an Upper-Class Bahujan Woman

By: The Argument Against Law School Personality Cults – Quirk

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:30:09 +0000

[…] I will give a broad example of this with regard to gender – though I would encourage people to share experiences based on other forms of structural discrimination in comments. As mentioned earlier, though Law School women often tend to have higher CGPAs and better CVs than men; they promote themselves relatively less aggressively. From my conversations with other women, I get the sense that this arises out of imposter syndrome as well as the popularly held sentiment that outspoken women are arrogant or ‘extra’. The problem of imposter syndrome due to societal stereotypes is amplified for Dalit-Bahujan women, as Manisha Arya (Batch of 2019) has explained in an earlier Quirk article. […]

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By: Passing the Mic: From Appropriation to Allyship – Quirk

Wed, 20 May 2020 11:42:21 +0000

[…] publish on its platform. It still takes an incredible amount of courage to write what Abhishek and Manisha recently wrote or to chronicle the sexual harassment womxn continue to face in elite spaces like […]

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By: Harshitha Dammu

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 04:48:13 +0000

This is a terrific read. Thanks to the author, Manisha for sharing her experience. The numbers mentioned in the last para are truly appalling. It just shows what absence of good institutional and peer support for category students at law school can do.

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By: Anon1800

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:08:50 +0000

The Exam Department being stringent on academic rigour is a hogwash. I have personally witnessed many savarnas or “bright students” (as per EDs definition) get their marks or grade increased.

They only stress on academic rigor when, according to them, the student isn’t deserving. I mean, if they could tell who was deserving, it would be them in the classrooms teaching rather than the clerical jobs that the currently occupy.

A grade increase from an A to an A+ should be infinitely more difficult than a grade increase from an F to a B+, but such is the state of law school. Hope it changes in the future.

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