Golden girls bag top three ranks

BENGALURU: Girls outshone boys at the the 24th convocation of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) on Sunday. The top three ranks in BA LLB were secured by girls from three different states. Twenty-two students received gold medals. Gopika Murthy from Thiruvananthapuram, who has 13 gold medals in her kitty, joined the law school after quitting engineering in electronics and communication. "I discontinued engineering when I realized that law is my cup of tea," said Gopika, who already has a job offer from a legal firm, who is all set to pursue post-graduation in commercial law in the University of Oxford. She said she has got 100% fellowship to study in the foreign university and she is interested to work in the field of commercial law. Shreya Prakash from New Delhi, who secured second rank in BA LLB and received three medals, aims to serve society. "Though I got 96.4% in class 12, I decided to pursue law because I always wanted to bring in some legal reforms which is important for the society and to develop the country." Shreya has already started working in a legal firm in Delhi. "I have already started working on drafting legal legislations and research in the field of legal reforms. After couple of years, I am planning to pursue higher studies," she said.Third ranker Deekshitha Ganeshan, however, had a different reason to pursue law. This Chennai girl, who bagged three medals, said her family has four lawyers and this motivated her to join for a law course. "I prepared normally for exams and I didn't put extra efforts to perform well in exams. I am happy to work in a legal firm." Other rank holders are Ashwini Vaidialingam (IV rank) and Sonakshi Saxena (Vth rank). The top two ranks in LLM were bagged by Akriti Gautam and Sakshat Bansal. Students, who completed 13 different law courses, were present at the convocation where 571 degrees were awarded. 63-year-old steals the showBengaluru: Age is no barrier to learn. Vouching this at the convocation was Subrata Biswas, who received his Masters in Business Law degree certificate, at the age of 63. Amid a stream of youths, Subrata was all pepped up to receive the degree certificate. "If you stop learning, you will become older. I'm all set to pursue a chartered insurer course in London," he said.The sexagenarian from Kolkata had crossed more than one hurdle to be where he is. Subrata has been suffering from vision problem for the past two years; his right eye has 32% of vision and left eye 25%. He has worked as a guest faculty in various institutes, and has completed MA in economics, MBA, PG diploma in marketing management, and automobile engineering certificate course. Subrata said his daughter is studying in class 9 at Brimingham, UK and his wife is a gynecologist in UK.