Ithink it is pathetic that an already privileged law school thniks it is some kind of right that they should be funded for student foreign travel through the public purse. The school should find private endowments for this. Singapore and India are vastly different realities. Our country's poor (more than half the population) are growing poorer, that's where our money should go. If this travel is connected to such problems, social justice and other issues relating to the defense of the exploited, then we can have public funds involved. And what about other students: for example, today the global debate in history has been redirected by the work of historians from India (Subaltern Studies), do we see even one rupee spent to create the institutions to house such great scholars, who are the envy of the world; let alone the fact that our "smart" citizens and lawyers are not even aware of the above fact. Why do we have to transfer public funds to elite law students whose primary aim is to land lucrative jobs with corporations, with little consideration for the public? The same goes for the IITs.
