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"Life pushed him between the devil and deep blue sea. He threw the devil in the sea and crossed it on his back. He was after all an Entrepreneur!" Let's meet Apurva Sukant, a young entrepreneur, Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Raipur pass-out, who along with his team, has developed the smallest android device - Androidly, which can be used as a wrist watch. The Andriod watch, named as "Androidly" will combine all the applications of a fully featured smartphone. You will be able to make calls, browse internet, check mails, click pictures. It will also be equipped with wi-fi, bluetooth and navigation facilities. Excerpts from the interview.

Who said lawyers can be good only at lawyering, lying and arguing? If given a chance, lawyers can be excellent entrepreneurs too. With excellent drafting skills, convincing abilities, research skills, advertising, and a vision, lawyers pretty much have all the qualities of a successful entrepreneur. In fact, they have the added advantage of being fluent with the legal technicalities concerned.

It's said that 98% of our 100% problems can be solved by money. It can solve the problem of gulping down horrible mess food, it can buy you the dress you were ogling at but your parents asked you to mind your expenditure. Money can buy you anything you wish in the world, okay not peace of mind and happiness, but it's better to cry while eating Lindt, Guylian, Ferrero Rocher in order to cure depression rather than with a growling hungry stomach! But most importantly, earned money buys you at least an iota of independence, because yes, at the end of the day it's our parents who are financing our splurging.

Working with a start-up is all fun and a lot of learning. Given the greater responsibility you get a chance to handle there owing to the closely knit working structure, nonetheless law students are apprehensive about working in a not-so-known-place or dread taking dicey-decisions. Many a times, even the start-ups are sceptical about letting a law student sneak in, given that law means nothing but protracted and vapid legal proceedings going on in the court for many.

The idea first came to him, thanks to hunger pangs. Hailing from Chandigarh, Aruj Garg initially faced a lot of problem with the kind of food that was served in the college mess or the small eateries that had mushroomed outside the college. Also, for each meal, a considerable amount of time was being spent in trying to figure out where to eat.  This is where the idea of starting a food place on campus came about. GyanCentral's Ushnota Paul meets this visionary young and enthusiastic final year B.A. LLB. (Hons.) student of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) for an exclusive interview, who established his own enterprise, 'Bhukkad' on campus in May 2011.

Okay, for quite some time, I have been harping about learning practical skills over here. But how can you get started? How can you take safe, baby steps towards learning practical skills while you are studying in a law school or a law college? I really don't believe in baby steps when it comes to learning. What really pays off is taking a plunge and immersing yourself in real life situations that require a response.

We keep on hearing about recession and how getting a job is becoming tough with each passing day, especially when one doesn't have any work experience. The irony is: to get work experience one must first get a job. This is where the Internships come handy. Well, this is what the hypothesis is. That's why people in law school intern fiercely, ferociously and vehemently in every vacation. Let's find out a list of unusual places to intern while in law school. 

"Eduwire is a start-up with an objective of bridging the gap between the students and the industry," says one of its founders, Anuj Agrawal, mechanical engineer. Gyancentral's Ashish Korada talks to the founders of this unique initiative.

He was at the verge of committing suicide after facing unending failures and hurdles in life, when one motivational SMS from a friend changed his life forever. Arun Pandit from Himachal Pradesh, a batch 2010-12 MBA-IB student of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), found a new meaning to live his life and fight back. He started ‘Don’t Give Up World’, a motivational website and community which helps in inspiring and making people happy each day. GyanCentral’s Ushnota Paul catches up with this young entrepreneur to know in detail about his remarkable journey from darkness to light.