Jindal/Ashoka, I do not understand at all. But abroad, I sort of do. They see NLSIU as a stepping stone to make their lives better. So if they got educated at NLSIU, their kids must get educated in a good British or American university. At the end of the day, for such people, the abroad brand is more established (on a global scale), like it or not. This mentality is perfectly put by a quite driven and obssessed-with-success kind of kid I once met at a Mumbai international school. This chap wanted to move to UK to work in investment banking and was a bit starry-eyed about their elite schools, because the books he was reading in English literature class that were set by his exam board tended to romanticize that kind of education. This kid once said quite confidently, 'If I am being educated at [that Mumbai international school], my own child should be educated at Eton or Harrow'. Same thing.

Until we can get most alumni of NLU-type universities to see NLSIU kind of places the way the Eton/Harrow families or the American elite rich view Oxford or Cambridge, or Harvard or Yale or Georgetown, respectively, little progress can be made in this age of government funding for universities being so tight.