Media Release
Mangalore, Sep 1: Preethi L N, a student from the city, has been conferred with gold medal at the 22nd convocation of the prestigious National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, in the convocation held on the varsity campus on Sunday August 31.
Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha, Chief Justice of India and Chancellor of NLSIU, presided over the convocation and conferred the B A LL B (Hon) degree and Bharat Ratna Dr B R Ambedkar gold medal on Preethi in the presence of Ravi Shankar Prasad, union minister of law and justice and communications and information technology, various Supreme Court judges, Chief Justice and other judges of Karnataka High Court, R V Deshpande, minister for higher education, T B Jayachandra, minister for law and justice, Karnataka, and president of Bar Council of India, and Prof Ravivarma Kumar, advocate general, Karnataka.
Preethi is the daughter of Lolaksha, a well-known social activist, former journalist, thinker, and a recipient of the prestigious Dr B R Ambedkar State Award for social service and Nagaveni, an employee of Mangalore University.
Preethi has previously studied at Vishwa Mangala Primary and High School, Konaje, Mangalore, scoring 92.48 percent in the SSLC board exam before joining St Aloysius Pre-University College, Mangalore, and securing 86.33 percent in the Pre-University Board Exam.
She has been a meritorious student all through along with excellence in extracurricular activities. Preethi has also passed junior and senior exams in Bharatnatyam and Carnatic music with distinction.
Preethi has interned under Justice J Chalameshwar, Judge, Supreme Court of India, interned at National Commission for Scheduled Castes, New Delhi, under Prof Ravivarma Kumar, Advocate General, Government of Karnataka, under Dr C S Dwarakanath, former chairman, Backward Classes Commission, Government of Karnataka, and in many NGOs. She has presented a paper on ‘Social Exclusion in Premier Educational Institutes in India’ in a national seminar held at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, in which she has exposed the various forms of the practice of untouchability being practiced in premier educational institutes and suggested remedial measures.
She wishes to become the voice of voiceless millions and plans to go abroad for higher studies in human rights.