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The Edict's News and Politics Newsdesk analysed the Haryana’s Private University Amendment Act, 2025 to understand its implications on institutional governance and autonomy.

In December 2025, Ashoka University designated  a dining space for its outsourced workers in the basement of an academic block. The space has four tables for a workforce of over five hundred people. Workers report  that it is cold, poorly lit, rarely cleaned, and largely unused. Many continue to eat where they are posted instead of entering this ostensibly inclusive space. This dining facility did not emerge spontaneously. It followed months of meetings, inspections, and writ

Aneek Chatterjee reflects on grief, memory, and the rediscovery of joy through Agneepath 7.0

The squash courts at Ashoka sit tucked into the dim first-floor corridor of the Sports Block. Hundreds of students pass them daily on the way to the gym, but few bat an eye. The majority of students on campus have either never heard of squash or have never had the opportunity to play the sport growing up, so it’s not a sport they instinctively try out. This is exactly what the squash team is trying to address with their daily team practices and tournaments. We spoke to Abhay

On Thursday, 5th March, the Chancellor's Office notified the Ashoka community about Professor Somak Raychaudhary’s decision to step down as Vice Chancellor. In their email, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees Pramath Raj Sinha and Chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee wrote that following Professor Raychaudhary’s decision, The Governing Body of Ashoka University has formally constituted a Search Committee to look for a successor. The email wrote that while Raychuadhary chose not t

In Memory of Andre Beteille I did not know Andre Beteille in the ordinary way one knows a teacher. I never took walks with him, shared coffee on a porch, or spoke to him across a desk, as many who are writing memoirs now have. I came to Ashoka University after his years here had passed. By then, he existed for me only as an inheritance of a name I had encountered in texts, and then found on a board in the administrative block at Ashoka. But I think that distance is fitting fo