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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.

At around 1:22 A.M, on Saturday, 20th September 2025, several students reported seeing a glowing object streak above campus, which was observed moving for about 5-7 seconds, tracing an arc in the sky. Similar glowing objects were seen in various regions of Delhi NCR at the same time. The Ashoka football team present in Pilani also saw it moving eastward towards Delhi. Students and faculty speculate that the body may have been a meteorite or a piece of spacecraft debris from

At Ashoka University, Siddhesh Gautam delivers a talk that challenges seventy-five years of cultural apartheid in Indian design education.

Who is an Ashoka student? I asked myself this when I wrote my admissions essay. On a campus where more than 94% of undergraduates come...

This summer in Ashoka was more eventful than any– with unilateral policy decisions, unjust suspensions, and mold (lot and lot of it), I...

Aneek Chatterjee and Yashwanth Bommareddy (UG'27) write about the University's Ultimate Frisbee team—The Hammerheads, and their 2024-25 Season.

Fatema Tambawalla (UG '27) covers the recent update on the worker's sit-in at Ashoka University. The protest stands disbanded as AUSG members push for unionization and a GRC.

As of Saturday, 6th September 2025, Ashoka University housekeeping staff’s protest continued, moving into its ninth day. As part of a series of student-organised public talks, celebrated human rights lawyer and Supreme Court advocate Colin Gonsalves spoke at 4:30 p.m., followed by a session at 5:00 p.m. by constitutional lawyer, law scholar, and author of The Transformative Constitution Gautam Bhatia.

Tanush Guha (UG '26) and Nysa Sanghvi (UG '27) report on the ninth day of the housekeeping workers' protest.

On Thursday, 4th September, classes at Ashoka University moved out of air-conditioned rooms and into lawns, corridors, and open-air amphitheatres as students and faculty expressed solidarity with housekeeping staff who have been on strike for over a week. The faculty also released a new petition to demand withheld salaries of protesting workers.