ABOUT THE BOOK:
To give you a small glimpse of what’s in
store let me just say that the book has been narrated through the eyes and ears
of my protagonist Sia, a budding lawyer who tried out every possible training
opportunity she could lay her hands on before finalizing on where she wanted to
be after she finished her graduation.
The stories are a by product of certain
incidents during her diverse experiences in the legal system as each one of
them affected her and impacted her in some way and taught her something about
life as well. She sometimes did it for
the sole purpose of beautification of her CV, but mostly she did it for the
real and genuine motive of getting acquainted with the legal process, learning
the nuances of litigation(court practice), the nitti gritties of the profession
thereby enabling them to gather some experience beforehand itself.
Sia explored the opportunities that came
her way for all of the reasons above. Little did she know that her experiences
would teach her not just law but something more as well.
Now normally, a book which is a compilation
of short stories has an independent story each. Rarely are those stories
interrelated or interconnected. Infact, while writing this book, I realized that
trying to keep a story short and crisp is extremely challenging as compared to
penning a single long story. This book is a tad different, as all the six
stories herein have one common protagonist Sia, and one common thread which
binds them all i.e. Law.
Each story revolves around one of the 6
elements which I feel are critical to this profession, the elements being; the Case, the Court (Judge), the Counsel, the Complainant, the Confinement
and the Criminal (defendant or accused).
While the first three stories are based on the
elements of The Complainant, The Court
and The Case and are court room dramas with a dash of satire, the fourth
story is based on the element “The
Counsel” and is dedicated to a lawyer whom I personally had the experience
of working with.
The last two stories are based on the
elements of The Confinement and The Criminal and are the protagonist’s eccentric
but memorable experiences of visiting an Indian Prison. It is for all those who
have only imagined how a prison is, seen in movies or heard from friends and have
never ever seen in reality. Inspired by true incidents, the names of the prison
and the accused have been withheld for obvious reasons.
I wish this book reaches out to not just
those who are a part of the legal profession, but also the youth in particular who
are trying to get back to the habit of reading, be it the e-way.
Whether you know anything about law or not,
I hope this interests you, inspires you to enter this profession and perhaps
impacts you in some way.
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