Sayandeep Chakraborty

I am a first-year student of law at KIIT School of Law at Bhubaneshwar in Odisha. Born in a Bengali middle-class family in Durgapur, West Bengal, I completed my secondary education at St. Peter's School and did my plus 2 from DAV Model School. Having passed both my secondary and higher secondary examinations with, what my teachers labeled as, 'flying colors', it was time for me to decide my path ahead.

Having been an avid writer and debater cum public speaker through my years in school, it was a toss-up for me between the streams of journalism and law. Not having been sure of my aspirations throughout my life, it took a few days of continual 'soul-searching' for me to comfortably settle for the latter.

Once in law school, I got an opportunity to revive my old love for writing, and I got my very first legal article published in Legal Service India, the one for which I'm writing this mail. I had always wanted to do something for animals, and in March I started my first legal blog on animal rights called 'BrightPaws'. I plan on writing a lot more articles, both academic and non-academic, and getting them published in e-journals like Legal Service India and others.