December 29, 2019

Understanding struggles of a first generation advocate

After college, (and for some after high school education) what comes to test is our capacity to earn and our capacity to settle as 'householer' and to support a family.

Some are born in rich and well connected families. They have good "starting capital".

In a book titled "Book of Mirdad", there is an allegory of people living in rabbit-holes at different heights on a mountain. The world is like this.

Thus, those who are born to parents living near mountain top, can easily reach to mountain top. They need to climb less. They have natural and geographical advantages.

And for those who are born to parents living at the bottom of mountain, it takes a longer time in climbing to the top of mountain.

Sometimes it takes a lifetime.

The life stories of first generation advocates are usually like "stories of climbing upward from the bottom of a mountain".

Thus, the struggle in legal profession for first generation advocates, is all about climbing to a higher rabbit-hole on a mountain known as "Judicial System"

(C) Haresh Raichura 29/12/19

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