High and Law – Sanjay Pinto’s book makes law comprehensible to the average reader
Years ago, when I was an insurance officer, I had never thought that one day I would switch to public relations and journalism. It was quite some switch – two totally different fields – but I had strong reasons for making that decision. Sanjay Pinto, the author of High and Law , did something quite similar, though in reverse. He switched from media to law. In 2102, a year after his twin children were born, he decided to quit NDTV 24x7 after serving the channel for more than 11 years and moved to the legal profession – a transition from the newsroom to the courtroom, as he calls it. Sanjay had strong reasons, too. He was then seeking better “work-life balance”; he wished to spend more time with his family. Also, he had studied law after graduating in Politics and History and he wanted to be independent and try and change lives, with law providing him a better “bandwidth”. And so, his target audience changed – from viewers to family. Many of us remember Sanjay as ...
