HealthShots spoke to Amrita Verma, who can take out your part of the work from the lengthy language of the court and explain it to you in a few minutes.
“This world is very big but we can see the whole world with our eyes… so we should not limit our thinking but keep our vision and our goal big.” This is what Amrita Verma, a legal educator on social media, says. Social media sites like Instagram and YouTube, which were once considered only a place for entertainment, have now become a book for increasing knowledge. In just one to one and a half minutes, some creators do such a miracle that it includes knowledge of many hours.
Similarly, the one who takes out your part of work from the lengthy language of the court and explains it to you in a few minutes amrita verma Healthshots spoke to Amrita. Amrita, who fought all the challenges and defeated the male-dominated mindset of society with her courage, always wanted to do something ‘thrilling’ in her life, so she thought of entering the law field and made herself successful.
‘You will also sit outside the court with an umbrella…’
Recalling her law career, Amrita says, ‘People’s mindset towards law is such that they say you too will sit outside the court with an umbrella…, to change this mindset of people and to do something thrilling, I studied law and while doing this course I realized that whenever you win a case, from a lawyer’s point of view, it is not just winning a case but it is a moment that increases your heart rate.
‘She is a girl, this won’t work’
Advocacy is a male-dominated profession and people think that ‘she is a girl, she won’t be able to do anything’. Recalling her early days as a lawyer, Amrita says, ‘Once her senior told her that clients don’t come to girls because clients believe that a female lawyer cannot handle stress and cannot work as smoothly as a male lawyer can. So he said that girls are no less than anyone, so they should not be underestimated.’
‘Society stops women from flying’
Recalling her junior days as a lawyer, Amrita says, ‘Every lawyer wants a woman to be his junior because women lawyers do all the work related to a case in a very organized manner and at a very fast pace.
But if the same woman wants to work on par with them and starts doing better work than them, then the same lawyers and along with them the entire society stop the flight of women.
Increasing ‘legal awareness’ is also a thrilling task
Amrita considers it a big challenge to portray the language of the courtroom in an easy way on social media and make it understandable for people within 1 minute. Amrita says that to do this work, she has to read a lot and prepare such a language that the general public can easily understand.
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Also, while explaining the power of social media, Amrita says that, ‘The clients of a lawyer in the Supreme Court were sending my video to him and telling him that you are fighting the case in the wrong way, you should fight like this’. Calling this her achievement, Amrita believes that now the general public has started becoming aware about advocacy and has also started understanding what is right and what is wrong.
‘The laws seem outdated now’
Talking about equality in Indian laws, Amrita says, ‘As a lawyer, it is her duty to be equal towards both male and female parties. But there are still many loopholes in the law, due to which the male side is harassed more.’
Giving examples of some such cases, Amrita says, ‘Many cases of getting intimate after promising marriage and then refusing to marry are seen these days. In such a case, if the man is guilty, there is punishment for him, but if the woman is guilty, there is no punishment for her. This is an inequality with men, which should be improved.’
Talk openly about mental harassment
There are many women who face mental harassment at their workplace, home or anywhere and sometimes out of fear or thinking that they might be overthinking, they let go of the thing which is absolutely wrong.
It is for such situations that laws have been made in support of women and by raising their voice, they can avoid situations like mental harassment.
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