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The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) student protest erupted in June 2026 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi driven by widespread outrage over massive paper leaks and structural irregularities in the NEET-UG examination. For around thirty-seven days, student activists maintained a continuous demonstration demanding systemic testing reforms and accountability from top officials. Most significantly, they demanded the resignation of former Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. The C

On 20 July 2026, thousands took to the streets of central Delhi to protest in defence of public education and to demand accountability from the Union government. What began as a mass mobilisation at Janpath ended in a violent police crackdown marked by lathi charges, tear gas, injuries, and detentions; this photo essay documents the protest as it unfolded.

An expecting couple’s first introduction to Garbhsanskar might be the interface of a wellness app marketing itself as a symposium of sacred Ayurvedic texts. Garbhsanskar, the ancient Indian branch of knowledge prescribing care to the mother during pregnancy, comes from the Sanskrit words garbha, womb, and sanskar, the rites of passage or values—literally, the rites of passage in the womb.

Faceless soldiers with keys slung around their necks are flung to martyrdom in a minefield bombing during the Iran-Iraq War. They are the teenagers to whom the Islamic Republic under Ruhollah Khomeini distributed “keys to heaven”, in exchange for joining the Iranian forces. On the very same page, a young Marji dances with glee, accompanied by laughing friends. She is attending her first party.

On 13 and 14 April, an undergraduate English thesis was performed in the form of a play. Under the guidance of Professor Mandakini Dubey, Suhaani Gala (UG’26) staged a production of Julie Jensen’s Last Lists of My Mad Mother

Abhinaya’s Indian Core took the stage on the Thursday night of 26 March. Presenting Mithyā, their Spring ’26 production, they promised an evening of illusions. The team was prepared: during the wait in the queue, the audience were handed papers containing links to the Amar Chitra Katha stories to be performed for the evening. They promised a ‘layered experience’, and a layered experience it was.

On 22nd March, 2026, the Black Box was covered— chairs, corners, floors and all— with viewers eager to be transported to sunny Kalokairi, curious to see what flavour the student production at Ashoka University would add to one of the most popular musicals, Mamma Mia.

“I wanted the possibility of co-creating a conversation between the film and the audience,” says Paromita Vohra, filmmaker, writer and founder of Agents of Ishq, a multimedia project on love, sex and sexual politics in India.

On December 3rd, 2025 Jorge Rivera Herrans released a snippet of “Pride of Troy”, one of the many themed songs that will make it to his new album, Ilium, a musical adaptation of the Trojan War. It will be another Greek retelling of a tale heard time and again, only now with the wit, music, and contemporary tongue Herrans offers with his pieces. Given the success of his EPIC: The Musical, it is only fair that expectations run high, and for the right reasons. Herrans’ famed EPI

I’m waiting for Fair is Foul, a production staged by The Green Room, Ashoka University’s theatre club, to begin. Pitched as an anthology play featuring women through history who defied convention, the poster featured a triptych of heroines bathed in resplendent lighting.