Lectures and more lectures

It was a day of "high-profile" lectures at college. It was high-profile because we had a slew of lectures from people who were stalwarts in their respective fields and who write our text books. For once, the whole class looked forward to the lectures. We had three lectures one after another.
The first one was by Mr. Mahendra P. Singh, an expert in Constituional Law. Our Constitutional Law textbook is edited by him. For the first time people fought to sit in the front rows. In all other classes people fight over the back benches so that they are left to themselves and can message, read novels, newspapers or just go to sleep during class. Today, it was refreshingly different.
Mr. Singh hadn't prepared any lecture since he had been to the University for some other purpose. So he asked us to choose a topic. We discussed at length on reservations in the private sector, viability and desirability of a uniform civil code to replace the personal laws and finally on confilict of fundamental rights. Though very interesting, I did not find his arguments especially regarding reservation very convincing. It was as if he did not question the efficacy of a policy as long it was passed by the Parliament and just because it did not violate any fundamental right per se. I am sure there are other considerations involved in analysing the efficacy of a policy. The stamp of the Parliament on a policy is definitely not one of the most important considerations especially when every single policy of the government is for some electoral or political gain. Issues are made non-issues simply for votes (read Veer Savarkar and Tiranga Yatra) or some policy is suddenly suggested without any rationale or real purpose behind it. (read 50% reservation for Muslims in employment in Andhra Pradesh) The Parliament and its policies is, most of the time, not reflective of the true needs of the electorate and the welfare of the nation.
The second lecture was by Mr. Pillai who is an expert in Criminal Law. This was an interesting lecture and funny too at times. We discussed topics like capital punishment, the Mallimath Committee Report and laws banning homosexual relationships. Though I strongly disagreed with him on certain matters I enjoyed it on the whole.
The third lecture was by Mr. Mani on International Law. Though it was restricted to the third year students I managed to sneak in and listen to it. I took the extra effort since I am personally very interested in the subject. We haven't yet had a course on International Law (we have a paper on International Law in the next semester) but the lecture was very commonsensical and did not require any strong background on International Law.
Though I had a thoroughly enjoyable day in class, I was quite pissed since I didn't get an important albeit simple job done from the University. I wsa made to run around all over the place for a routine and formal letter certifying that I was a bonafide student of the University. Very pissing off to see tables and offices empty for long hours. There is no sign of officials and I had to wait for long hours. Ultimately, I didn't even get my work done. So I must run around again tomorrow. I am fed up....
Viva preparation going too slow for comfort. Urgent attention required there...