In this note, the authors discuss the Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Conclave organised by West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (‘NUJS’), Kolkata, in collaboration with the Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Trust and was supported by the Tata Group. As part of the Conclave, NUJS also organised the Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Essay Competition, 2023 (‘Essay Competition’). The broad theme of the Essay Competition was ‘Application of Basic Structure Doctrine to Contemporary Issues’. Submissions were invited for two sub-themes: Scope of Judicial Review, and Powers of Promulgating Ordinances. The NUJS Law Review here assisted in the organisation of the Essay Competition. The panel of judges that scored the entries included notable legal stalwarts such as Justice M. R. Shah, Professor Upendra Baxi, Professor Rohit De, and Jhuma Sen, to make a few. The authors thereafter navigate through the papers published in Volume 16(4) of the NUJS Law Review, Special Issue on the Basic Structure Doctrine, which were the winning entries of the Essay Competition. Professor Upendra Baxi also contributed through a Foreword to the Special Issue.