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Literary-Star Fiery Princess: On Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me
Mother Mary Comes To Me insists that it is an article of dissent. From its flaming red hardcover gazes a young Arundhati Roy, beedi in mouth—a brand aesthetic around a politics of defiance, carefully curated by designers at the publishing giant, Penguin.
Aishani Misra
Oct 29


Administration Refuses Hybrid Classes Amidst Post-Diwali AQI Surge in Sonipat
Despite a spike in AQI in Delhi-NCR, Dean of Academic Affairs Bikram Phookun and Vice-Chancellor Somak Raychaudhury have decided against online or hybrid classes, as confirmed in an email to faculty members on Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. In the coming week, however, certain faculty members decided to conduct online classes. About a month prior to Diwali, Campus Life Ministry (CLM) consolidated a smog-week proposal following a student survey with over 800 responses. They pro
Ananya Mahnot
Oct 28


The Politics of Repression
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
Mehnoor Nisar
Oct 28


AUEC Clarifies Student Government Vacancies, Raises Concerns Over Transparency
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
Nethra Ramakrishnan
Oct 19


Admin Joins the Performative Mail Trend: Ashoka and O.P. Jindal Love Feminist (only in) Theory
On September 23rd, 2025, there was a protest at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonipat, regarding persistent threats to women’s...
Diva Savkur
Oct 10


Chronicles of the Untranslated: Bringing India’s Non-Fiction Voices to the Centre
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.
Rohan Wagle
Oct 9


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