There is a swarm of knowledge out there. We are living in times when there is always too much content to consume. A time where we are always playing catch-up to our to-do or to-be-read lists.

In this climate, isn’t it amazing that we bring to you another source of information?

Well, jokes aside, let us discuss what we want to achieve by adding more articles for you to read. What makes us worthy of this space in your inbox?

One of the first principles of writing is- respect the reader. You may be wielding wizardry with your pen, but if you do so to sound fancy to yourself, it is often in vain. In this Newsletter, this is the cardinal principle we will follow. We respect you.

Having said that, let us move to what we plan to achieve with this Newsletter. This is a work-in-progress, so bear with us. But let’s talk about the things which we will focus on.

The first is learning. For the past ten years, Lawctopus has been focused on making learning more accessible. We believe that knowledge is a great equalizer. Thus, even things like sharing internship experiences, telling people about the upcoming opportunities, is a small step towards being more informed, more inspired. Our latest adventure is now to democratize learning, make it more accessible to everyone, and not just a select few. So you can expect stories on people’s experiences learning, failing, trying, and innovating.

The second is the law. We want this to be a space where we provide (some) answers to the often asked lamentation of “why did I choose law”; which in some cases increases in frequency as a person’s career progresses.

In law, we want to focus on one thing in particular. To put it in cliches, it is “demystifying the law.” What do we mean by this? Everything related to law is full of clutter. The way we study law, the way we practice it, the way we think about it. While now there is a new age of “explainers” in law, with newspapers and other media outlets wanting to explain the law to the general public, we are nowhere near the kind of experimentation done while talking about other streams like science or math.

We want to spark your curiosity and make you question things more. We want to move beyond the understanding of law as merely through cases or statutes (while those are important), but also placing them in history and understanding what they mean. But we plan to keep it simple and keep it engaging.

We’ll be posting here interesting articles we are writing at Lawctopus. We’ll be putting things from other places we find insightful, which our readers could benefit from. We’ll also share some art and a few pearls of wisdom. This Newsletter is going to be a catalog of ideas.

All this won’t happen in a day. A transformation won’t happen within you by only reading what we write here. But it is a step, much like everything we do in life. If after reading our posts you feel a little motivated, a little driven; if you feel like going and reading more, then we would have been successful.

“The law is the calling of thinkers […] I say no longer with any doubt- that a man [ed: person] may live greatly in the law as well as elsewhere; that there as well as elsewhere his thought may find its unity in an infinite perspective…” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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