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On 14th December 2025, a day after the Monsoon 2025 semester ended, the Residence Life Office (ResLife), in an email addressed to the student body, directed that all students vacate the campus for the winter break. This has been a first in the communications by ResLife that such a policy has been implemented. The email quoted a clause from the new Residence Life Policy , which was communicated on 30th July, 2025, which stated that “Access to Residence Halls during Summer and

I Won’t Wait is a student-made feature screened on 15th November 2025 under Film Fataka, Ashoka’s film festival for student films. Directed by Aritra Mukhopadhyay (UG'27) with Assistant Director Nayantara Pal (UG'28), it follows Ron, played by Vishwa Krishnan (UG’28) and Abir, played by Liam Munshi (UG’28), as they set up an underground boxing club on campus.

This article is intended as a response to ‘AMAANAT not JAAGIR.’ There is no doubt that Ashoka is an “endeavour of profound optimism” and idealism. Without a sense of idealism, no planning for the future can take place, and there can be no poetry with which to ultimately govern for. The trouble arises when we question who gets to write this poetry, who it is recited to and who gets to privilege the prose. The inspiring poetry of creating a “top-100, non-profit, non-governmen

On Monday, November 24th, 2025, the Ashoka University Student Government (AUSG) announced via email the creation of a new RTI portal on its website. They also released the Monthly Report for October

Pratyush Mishra (UG’27), an aspiring filmmaker who enjoys singing and acting, was inspired by films such as Black Swan (2010), Phantom Thread (2017), and Whiplash (2014) when he wrote the play Hum Nachte Kyun Hain? (“Why do we dance?”). “I had always wanted to write a story about an artist, how they feel for their art, and why they do their art.”

Ashoka University is an intergenerational quest of idealism without illusions Educational institutions are endeavours of profound optimism; they believe human capital is the only renewable national resource, nations must be their own light (आत्म दीपो भव), and systematic study offers children the most powerful path to overcome or leverage their opening balance. Ashoka University aims higher than optimism: Idealism without Illusions. History suggests that adding success to id