Arpita Saha is our Student of the Month for October 2009. Arpita is a student of the Diploma in Cyber Crime Prosecution and Defence course conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws.
Arpita is currently pursuing her 5 year Integrated B.Sc. LL.B. (Honors in IPR) from National Law University, Jodhpur. She is interested in Intellectual Property Laws, cyber laws and criminal laws, specially in the international domain. She has participated and presented papers in numerous national and international conferences and is also an active member of the Journal and Editorial Committee of her University. Some of her articles have featured in the Top-10 list of articles at Social Science Research Network (SSRN) for a number of weeks.
She is also a regular blogger, and very interested in arts and crafts. Even as a child, she won accolades in painting, sketching, oil painting, glass painting, clay modelling, tattoo making, hand painting, rangoli designing and other such arts. She enthusiastically pursues this artistic bent of mind even to this day. She has participated in and won various competitions at her University and outside. Arpita is an avid reader and enjoys a range spanning comic strips to self help books. She loves music, can “hum a little” 
and also takes an interest in dramatics and other performing arts.
She has actively taken a part in “Plant a Tree”, “Donate Blood” and other such campaigns, and loves travelling all over the country, even to little known places, to pursue another one of her hobbies, i.e. photography.
Some of her favourites include:
Colour: Black and Red.
Food: Fruits and Salads, Chinese, and anything made by my mom (miss home-made food a lot!).
Drink: Coffee, Lemonade, Fresh fruit juices.
Actors: Hrithik Roshan, Gerard Butler, Brad Pitt.
Smell: Rose, Lavender.
Movies: Kaminey, P.S. I Love You, When Harry Met Sally, Jab We Met, You’ve Got Mail, Notting Hill, 18 Year Old Virgin and other romantic movies.
TV Shows: Boston Legal series.
Music: Sonu Nigam, Westlife, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shakira, Enrique, Michael Learns to Rock, James Blunt.
Books: Harry Potter series, P.S. I Love You, Lord of the Rings, Simple Things Make Love, Of Course I Love You, Sumthing Of A Mocktale, To Whom It May Concern, John Grisham Novels, Sidney Sheldon Novels, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Chetan Bhagat Novels, Those Small Lil Things.