GUJARAT LAW SOCIETY Date of publication : 7th of every month. News for students, staff, alumni and friends Gujarat Law Society, Opp Law Garden, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad 380006 ■ Ph 079 26440532, 079 26468513 ■ email: [email protected] ■ Price Rs.2/- INSIDE Volume 10 Issue 8 Editor: Dr. Bhalchandra H Joshi AUGUST 2018 UNIFORM CIVIL CODE CAN ENSURE GENDER EQUALITY: LORD BHIKHU PAREKH AT THE FOURTH FOUNDATION DAY CELEBRATION OF GLS LAW COLLEGE Pg : 2 LESSONS FROM RAHUL DRAVID By Dr. Binod Das enhance the national integration. right to culture under a culture related issues, Parekh Pg : 4 ttending the Fourth Professor Parekh was speaking Constitution which includes the said, Constitutional Foundation Day of GLS on the topic “Legal Pluralism right to personal laws. But it amendments should be made ORIENTATION AT ALaw College as Chief and Cultural Diversity.” Parekh creates problems in marriage, that all personal laws should be NRHS AND GLSHS Guest, Lord Bhikhu Parekh, viewed that culture has heavily adoption, succession and subject to the principle of Member of House of Lords, influenced our daily lives and property inheritance. UCC can gender equality. Personal laws United Kingdom, said that the legal system of the country. provide solutions for several consistent with Constitutional Uniform Civil Code (UCC) can India has plural legal such problems, opined Parakh. provisions may remain in force. ensure gender equality and system. The citizens have a Sharing some ideas to solve CONTINUED ON PAGE-2 GLS Law College Seminar Pg : 6-7 DEMAND FOR GENDER EQUALITY: A FIGHT TIME TO DRIVE SAFE, AHMEDABAD! AGAINST CULTURE AND BELIEF By Binod Das should treat women on equal LS Law College footing. organised a seminar on Ms Janaki Vasant, the Gthe topic “Gender founder of Samvedana, viewed Sensitisation: Towards a World that the gender sensitisation of Equals.” Welcoming the should happen at home. She guests, Dr Mayuri Pandya, urged to get liberation from the Director of GLS Law College regressive institutional reminded that, women have principles of society and opined multifarious roles; woman is a gender sensitisation should Pg : 8 caretaker, bread winner, happen at home. GUJARATI LITERATURE entertainer and teacher. Men Ms Meera Ramnivas, the LOSES TWO GEMS have to accept this immense former DGP of Govt of Gujarat, contribution of women in the viewed that technology is society. misused for crime against Honourable Ms Justice Ms Abha Singh, the also we should evolve. She women. Parents should be well Harsha Devani, Judge, High prominent women activist and pointed flaws in the archaic informed about the social Court of Gujarat, reminded that advocate of Bombay High legal provisions to ensure surrounding of the children and demand for gender equality is Court, viewed culture, belief gender justice. reasonable restrictions should fight against tradition. She and prejudices are all Inaugurating the seminar, be imposed on the children for identified two problems contributing for gender Ms Vaibhavi Nanavati, their safety. The students and sustaining the problem of discrimination. She urged advocate, High Court of the faculty members of various Pg : 11 gender discrimination. First, students to play active role in Gujarat, emphasised on cultural law colleges of Gujarat attended SOCIAL SERVICE AT women are not financially judicial activism. Third gender literacy of societal members. the seminar. independent. Second, gender should also be part of gender She viewed women should be (The writer is an Assistant FOC (B.COM) decides entitlements in our equality. She observed law is strong enough command Professor at GLS Law society. evolving; society is evolving so respect. It is time that men College) AUGUST 2018 2 LESSONS FROM RAHUL DRAVID’S BATTING STYLE FOR MAKING INVESTMENTS AND INVESTING DECISIONS By Shyam Kakkad Moreover, stay focussed on previous lesson, stick to your ahul Dravid, popularly your goals and stick to the investment plan, and you may known as “The Wall” for investment plan once made, also initiate shedding of the Rhis defensive cricket and needless to say that you may excessive risk that you have acting as a wall to prevent have to change them as you been carrying in order to take falling of wickets has been move ahead on your life-cycle advantage of higher returns, recently inducted into the and your nature of needs, wants this will ensure the safety of famous ICC Hall of Fame. The and contingencies change. At your investment and will try to famous cricketer, has been the same time, one should not minimize the probability of popular for his batting style, forget that your investment occurrence of huge losses. and playing defensively, in the strategy should be kept as Moreover, one should invest in era where cricketers have simple and understandable as securities which carry no risk or moved from defensive to you can. carry minimal risk in order to aggressive batting. He is also Manjrekar, shares his final protect the principal amount. known for his agility and his thought on dravid’s playing Consistency is the secret sportsmanship. Former Indian style and describes “Once he is key: Another perspective of the Batsman and TV Commentator, past 50, he seems to get into this same description is consistency. Sanjay Manjrekar has rightly the falling of wickets at the false shot that had got him out. “mental freeze” state, where it Consistency will give its fruitful said that “I believe Dravid can same time, it can also be No problem with that, everyone does not matter to him if he is returns when you prevent your be a more realistic batting role practiced in investment also. does it. Just that Dravid was stuck on 80 or 90 for an hour; emotions that drive your model for young Indian batsmen The investment lesson here rehearsing the shot at a dinner he resists the temptation to do investment decision. Patience is than a Tendulkar, Sehwag or would be to not fall for table in a restaurant!” anything different to quickly another element, which has a VVS Laxman, for Dravid is the excessive higher return and The act of thinking that get to the next stage of the tremendous impact on your least gifted on that list” keep the downside risk limited, Dravid has been gifted is innings. He has resisted that decision. Patience in investing Dravid is a defensive so as to stop the possibility of actually helpful to him, and this impulse and has developed the is also of paramount importance. batsman and is well known and major loss. shows his level of commitment, mind (the mind, again) to enjoy You should give your investment admired as he stayed on pitch Sanjay Manjrekar further his passion for perfection and the simple task of meeting ball plans to act and let them work for longer periods and has shares his thoughts in an article precision and his focus in his with bat, even if it does not for you. played the bulk of his cricket in published on ESPN Cricinfo, as game, which made him much result in runs, and he does this Lastly, I would also like to the era where aggressive batting following “When I saw him at admired and respected for his even when close to a Test mention an anonymous quote is practiced and preached, and the start of his career, I must passion for reading habits and hundred. The hundred does which says “In Investing, this is what sets him apart than confess Dravid’s attitude being a well-informed cricketer come eventually, and after it always remember that Rome any other player. concerned me. As young in real sense. does, the same discipline was not built in DAY, and Investment Lesson: As cricketers, we were often Investment Lesson: In continues - in that innings and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Dravid plays and also defends reminded to not think too much simple words, ‘think twice the next one. A discipline that destroyed in a DAY” - and also sometimes before doing anything’, and the has now got him 12,215 runs in For the article of Sanjay reprimanded by our coaches second thing is “Never get Test cricket.” Manjrekar on Dravid, please and senior team-mates for doing burned by the same flame Investment Lesson: 1) As click the following link: http:// so. Being a thinker in cricket, it twice”, i.e. stay away from and when you get older and www.espncricinfo.com/ is argued, makes you complicate those strategies or choices start nearing to your retirement magazine/content/ a game that is played best when where you have lost money and age, don’t take too much of risk, story/520923.html it is kept simple. I thought made losses. You need to plan this can lead you in a very Volume: 10, Issue: VIII Dravid was doing precisely for all your current and future miserable position and you may (The writer is an alumnus of © 2009 All rights reserved. that: thinking too much about needs, wants and contingencies also lose all of your investment FBA-NRBBA, and is President, GLS his game, his flaws and so on. I that may emerge in the later capital. One more thing to take currently pursuing CFA) Deepak Navnitlal Parikh once saw him shadow-playing a period. care here is as I said in the Honorary Secretary, GLS Devang Nanavati Publisher & Editor-in-chief Dr Bhalchandra Joshi CONTINUED FROM PAGE-1 knowledge such as moot (Registrar, GLS) The special guest of the practices, seminar, tech talks Managing Editor function, Shri Salman Chisty, and other practising activities. Dr. Avani Desai Editorial Board Chairman, Chisty Foundation, Welcoming the guests, Dr. Aashal Bhatt suggested that it is time to Mayuri H. Pandya, Director of Dharini Patel integrate spiritualism with GLS Law College, fondly Dipalee Atre academic understating.