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When governments choose to treat their youth as expendable, they unwittingly create the opposition they fear the most. In Sri Lanka , it was the young protestors who camped outside the president’s office for months, forcing a government to resign. In Pakistan , the decades-old ban on student unions is being challenged, breathing new life into the country’s political discourse. Over the past decade, a pattern has emerged across South Asia: policies and practices that shut yout

On Saturday, 18th October, 2025, the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC) sent out a series of emails to the student body to “ formally clarify certain matters concerning the composition of the Ashoka University Student Government (AUSG) and reaffirm its commitment to transparency and procedural integrity.” The emails addressed issues pertaining to the dismissal of AUSG members, budgetary allocations, and other concerns that pointed to lapses in communication and rais

On September 23rd, 2025, there was a protest at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonipat, regarding persistent threats to women’s...

A collaboration between The Ashoka Centre for Translation and Penguin Random House, Chronicles was introduced in April 2024 as a series of non-fiction translations “aimed at bringing creative-critical textual narratives from various Indian languages to English.” It also seeks to function as a living archive and resource as it gathers voices that might otherwise remain dispersed across India’s linguistic map.

On the 29th and 30th of August, the second edition of Bhashavaad: National Translation Conference took place, organised by the Ashoka Centre for Translation in partnership with the New India Foundation, in an effort to bring scholars, writers, translators and publishers together.

Pratyush Rudra (YIF '26) covers the recent student protests at O.P Jindal Global University