- Who has applied and who are the candidates tipped to win?
- Will NLSIU return empty-handed 7 years in a row, or will their intense lobbying bear fruit?
- Will GNLU continue its strong showing in recent years? Or will NLUD, NUJS and NALSAR add to their tally?
- Will it again go to the student with the wokest SOP, promising to return to India and work for empowerment of the marginalised? Or will they get real and be fine with giving it to a corp law candidate, who tells the truth that he/she wants to settle abroad?
- Will Jindal finally get a Rhodes scholar, after 10 years of coaching their students for it?
- Will we see some WTF choices? For example, the 2019 Rhodes for law went to a girl who did her undergrad from King's College London (see below). It is baffling how a Rhodes scholarship for India went to a girl at a foreign university, even if she is an Indian citizen. In that case there are thousands of Indian citizens studying abroad who can apply!
Sudhir and alumni are determined to get Rhodes this year and I am confident they will succeed. Let’s hope for the best and fingers crossed for glory days to return 🤞🏅
NLSIU are firm favourites this year by simple mathematical probability alone. A drought means a flood is due. So I expect two Rhodes scholars from NLSIU this year.
NLS will get it in 2024. There are a couple of people in that batch who can get it. After that, the batch of 2026 will surely fetch at least 1 Rhodes scholar
This year doesn't seem to be NLS' year. The batch of 2025 is even worse. The batch of 2026 has some promise - Kartik Kalra, Manhar Bansal, Siddhant Pengoriya, Shruti Jain, Nidhi Agarwal etc.
I don’t know if this makes sense or not , but Kartik Kalra isn’t that good of a scholar as you guys make him out to be. He is pretty decent. Manhar Bansal is amazing and so is Nandil and Siddhant.
▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ has already been dubbed as the "V Niranjan" of NLS. The only person comparable to his level of engagement with legal thought is ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ (the 'Bhatia' of 2026).
Shut ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮. ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮. I doubt anybody who uses this forum is competent or qualified to speculate on who will be considered by the Rhodes committee. Not to mention how stupid this post is getting, Rhodes' are not about the college at all, how about we start treating people as individuals first? People win Rhodes, not colleges. Yeh kya bakwaas hain "Will NLS return blah blah", shut ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ and sit down. There are better things to talk about and diluting the potential of this forum with nonsense speculation like this which we are not competent to engage in is peak buffoonery. I've had enough of some of these threads, sounds like some gossipy aunty talking about random colony kids
LI has successfully been hijacked by NLS students from NUJS students. C'mon guys, it's too early to predict Rhodes for the 2026 batch and things at NLS are not as rosy as people here make it out to be.
▮▮▮ is literally A GODDD!!!!!!!! I think he will get Rhodes but he wont accept it. Instead, he will do his LLM in NLSIU and finally begin an "NLS School of Thought" on Competition Law, Economics, Proportionality, and Empirical Studies.
Is it true that your Raag Yadava is on the selection committee this year? If yes, isn’t that a conflict of interest as some of his students will be applying? Will he have to recuse himself from marking them? We already have an NLSIU alum Nandan Kamath chairing the selection committee, so it seems weighted towards NLSIU.
- Will NLSIU return empty-handed 7 years in a row, or will their intense lobbying bear fruit?
- Will GNLU continue its strong showing in recent years? Or will NLUD, NUJS and NALSAR add to their tally?
- Will it again go to the student with the wokest SOP, promising to return to India and work for empowerment of the marginalised? Or will they get real and be fine with giving it to a corp law candidate, who tells the truth that he/she wants to settle abroad?
- Will Jindal finally get a Rhodes scholar, after 10 years of coaching their students for it?
- Will we see some WTF choices? For example, the 2019 Rhodes for law went to a girl who did her undergrad from King's College London (see below). It is baffling how a Rhodes scholarship for India went to a girl at a foreign university, even if she is an Indian citizen. In that case there are thousands of Indian citizens studying abroad who can apply!
https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholars/rhodes-scholars-class-of-2019/shruti-iyer/
Given the historical preference for woke candidates, this should help his chances.
PS: The post may or may not be ironic.