In re: Annoying pedantic people

Litigating lawyers are the most annoying people to meet at social gatherings in Delhi.

Such lawyers see every businessman as a potential client - while there is nothing wrong with networking, the issue in India is that lawyers can charge irrespective of the result of cases. So 'growing together' isn't the motivation for these lawyers who wouldn't like any other system.

Interestingly those businessmen already tend to have MULTIPLE lawyers in their phonebooks because of the nature of Delhi's educational & power structure. They actually look for lawyers who can get them GUARANTEED orders from courts which 99% plus lawyers are INCAPABLE of arranging.

The worst is when such lawyers meet each other at such gatherings & start talking about what they said to which judge during a 'hearing' & how that he gave them 'relief'.

PS: One exception in my circle is a man from a prosperous family who is not active on X. Hint: He & I worked together as 'juniors' and he lives close to where I once lived.