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What NLS did in the early days is what is called in Bengali as 'phaka maathe goal mara' meaning scoring goals without a goalkeeper.
Don’t discredit their achievements on political lobby & minority appeasement.
They are on, majorly on their own merit and achievements. Now do your due, look them up and form your own conclusion.
The best person doesn't need to come from NLS.
Rhodes is an achievement for the individual at the end of the day.
1. No real competition for NLSIU before this.
2. No more Nandan Nilekani or Soli Sorabjee on the interview panel. They used to prefer NLSIU, especially Nilekani.
3. Rhodes Trust received feedback that NLSIU was unnecessarily being preferred. During his visit to India in 2015, the then Warden of Rhodes House, Charles Conn, met with various people (including Jindal VC and ex-Rhodes scholar Rajkumar) and conveyed to Rhodes that they should be fairer to other law schools. Rajkumar himself said this while encouraging Jindal students to apply for Rhodes (no Jindal grad has won as yet, but people are being shortlisted in the final round, which didn’t happen before).
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Below is a list of examples.
- Fulbright in the US- Gates Cambridge, Commonwealth, Chevening, Pratibha Singh Cambridge and Cornelia Sorabji Oxford in the UK
- Alexander von Humboldt and DAAD in Germany
- Erasmus Mundus in EU
- Schwarzman in China
- Plus, numerous scholarships offered at Oxbridge, Ivies, Stanford, NUS Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney and UNSW in Australia etc etc.
etc etc