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Highest Rainfall In India- Not Dehradun or Cherrapunji but Mawsynram- Meghalaya

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No, Dehradun is not.  Recently Thehindu  reported that Dehradun  received  more rainfall than any other city in India(2,865 mm of rainfall between June 1 and September 30-2013)I have been passionately following the Dehradun rainfalls since 2002 (the time I got into journalism) because I found it an extension of my awareness not just of myself, instead the atmosphere I am living in. Out of passion and ignorance combined I also took a video in the month of July and posted on YouTube, claiming that Dehradun was the highest place in India that records rainfalls. I believed the Right ). According to the Hindu newspaper Mumbai came second with 2,365 mm rainfall. Hindu newspaper. See here and the title read, If Dehradun was the highest rainfall receiving spot in India or not. It's not my fault if the IMD, NE can not provide the exact data in a leading newspaper like the Hindu. They have data from Guwahati, Imphal but not Meghalaya. Cant help but get misled. However my d...

Legal Education and Scope in India - A Fresh Look

“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment” - Mahatma Gandhi Law Students Dissolution ed? If you have ever felt that law in general is Greek, you may or may not be right.  Did you know that India today breed the larges number of legal professionals in the world? According to a Harward Law School report, there are approximately, 1.3 million registered attorneys, and half a million Indian law students pass out every year from various colleges in India. Albeit that not all of them go through the regular run of the mill jobs like litigation-oriented practice or drafting. The HBS believes that partnerships in areas of legal specialization should be toast of the future.    As an ex-content manager and co-founder of a legal website lawisgreek.com, I have felt that Law students are mostly unclear about what role they would like to enshrine in the field of law, for a simple reason that law is vast and it touches all of us ...