Education can never be infallible, right? I mean if a professor teaches a class of 40 students, 5 still tend to get F grades. But the efficacy of good education is still visible, you could scrutinise the demographics of where an average troll on LI hails from, you’ll conclude that general JGLS population does not tend to grow up as trolls when compared to their counterparts. I see that as a win. Good education helps. Education for all.

Nobody is likely to claim that he is not meritorious enough. Whether he actually needs the scholarship and if not, whether it is time that scholarships are perceived less as a status symbol (albeit one won by merit) to be celebrated about, and more as a need-based recognition that they were originally supposed to be, are of course age-old debates. And those points can be raised when an NLU grad from affluent family wins such scholarship too, it's not particular to JGLS grads only.

In the past years, the students and graduates of JGU have been awarded a number of coveted scholarships such as the Inlaks Scholarships at the University of Oxford, Commonwealth Scholarships at the University of Cambridge, British Chevening Scholarships at SOAS & QMUL and other institutions, Human Rights Fellowships at Columbia University, UK Foundation for International Law Scholarships at the University of Cambridge and many more. This news of the award of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to one of your students is truly amazing and is indeed the first of its kind. Kudos.

Your next natural aspiration for the students of JGU should be the Rhodes Scholarship. Dean Sudarshan and your vice chancellor had the privilege of being Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. Over the last several years, I know professors have been mentoring several of your students and every year, a few of your students across different schools do get shortlisted for the Rhodes interview. I am confident that you will soon have JGU's first Rhodes Scholar.

Congratulations from a fellow law schooler. I am looking forward to teaching at your university soon. Hopefully, I’ll be a witness to the Rhodes scholarship.

Why’d you do this bud? You know that will only bring more unsolicited and unfiltered hatred towards us. It’s really sad that this is happening. As someone who graduated last year, ik we’ve been subjected to all those negative comments and unjustified hatred but in my time, we’d let our stats and work speak. None of the JGLS students would go on social media platforms and rub it on their face. This will add fuel to fire and lead to more segregation in mutual spaces like moots, sports competitions and even work places. I can’t assume them to be educated about social media etiquettes because I’ve not studied in a non JGLS university but you as a JGLS must not contribute to the toxicity because I know you’ve been educated in JGLS.

An advice from your senior (assuming you’re a current student at JGLS): Let the work speak for itself. They might have free time but you my friend, have an institution to take ahead of where it is now. Avoid seeing the negative comments by not going through LI’s comments section and you’ll turn out to be a more positive person. And bud, there’s anyways no point of doing this, unless and until we get a Rhodes scholar, you already know they’re gonna come with that. Maybe do better for a couple of more years and then flex?