Convocation and Alumni Meet

The Third Annual Convocation was the first event to be held in our new and most impressively constructed auditorium.

With the Chancellor of the University having unfortunately being called off on urgent business at the last moment, the event was presided over by Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tarun Chatterjee, with Hon’ble Mr. Justice (Retd.) J.S.Verma as Chief Guest. The vibrant Batch of 2008, as well as LLM and M. Phil students were awarded their degrees by Justice Chatterjee, who emphasized in his spirited Convocation address upon the importance of lawyers as responsible members of society. Justice Verma, in his address highlighted the principal challenges facing the legal profession currently and the role that our bright graduates can play in redressing them.

The degrees were followed by the awarding of the Endowment Medals, monopolized by the nerdy duo of Rahul Chatterjee and Nirmalya Ganguly. Later, the newly graduated huddled gleefully in groups outside, taking photographs, interacting with teachers or guzzling on a delicious Bijoligrill spread in the quad. Soon afterwards, it was time for the batch photographs, and no sooner had the cameras flashed that a hundred-odd caps were up in the air.

Convocation night saw the much anticipated First NUJS Alumni Meet at The Stadel, attended by about 75 alumni members, most of whom combined their understandable joy at being back to their alma mater with astonishment at the changes that had come over in the last few years over the place that they had grown to love after five long years. Over delicious food, the Alumni relived old moments, fond memories and gleefully recalled the days when they were younger, slimmer and less responsible.

The old order might change; the auditorium might finally be made; and hostel curfew might have been relaxed: but as that day proved conclusively, there are some things that never ever change.