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“Kadam Kadam Par Ladenge”: Housekeeping workers’ strike continues through heavy rains
On the morning of Sunday, 31st August 2025, the housekeeping staff entered their fourth day of protest. Despite a heavy downpour and a...
Tanisha Pandey and Katelyn Patta
Sep 1, 2025


Bahar Aao: Workers at the Threshold of a Home
The first hands to touch Ashoka University each morning are not those of its students or professors, but of the didis and bhaiyyas who...
Sanjana Shankar
Aug 31, 2025


"Sharam Karo": Housekeeping Workers’ Protest Enters Third Day, No Communication From Administration and Contractors
The housekeeping staff workers’ protest completed its 3rd day on the 30th of August, 2025, with over seventy workers present at the site,...
Ananya Pendharkar & Nysa Sanghvi
Aug 31, 2025


60+ Workers, 3 Demands: Housekeeping Workers go on strike, Demand Fair Wages
Housekeeping workers at Ashoka University gathered outside Gate 1 in protest of low pay, low increments, and three arbitrary firing of three didis.
Sahana Radhakrishnan & Ananya Pendharkar
Aug 30, 2025


Housekeeping Workers Strike: Open letter from Faculty to Vice Chancellor Raychaudhury
Dear Vice Chancellor Somak Raychaudhury, We, the undersigned members of the faculty, are asking you to intervene in the current situation...
Faculty Members
Aug 29, 2025


At the Stroke of the Midnight Hour…
Parampara, Pratishtha, Anushashan. Ye iss Gurukul ke teen stambb hein…Par koi bhi kaamyaabi itni aasaani se nahi milti. Har badi...
Tripura Chamy and Karandeep Gill
Aug 12, 2025


Mental Health Care at Ashoka Starts Looking Like a Punishment: Students Afraid to Seek Help
Nysa Sanghvi (UG' 27) and Sharmistha Shivhare (UG' 27) report on the increasingly punitive nature of mental health care at Ashoka.
Nysa Sanghvi and Sharmistha Shivhare
Aug 11, 2025


Longing for an Ashoka That Cares
A “home away from home” and Pathologisation of Mental Health at Ashoka A while back, I wrote a frustrated email to the student body,...
Atharva Salve
Aug 10, 2025


Nationalism and Our Imagination: The View from Campus
“Nationalism is produced by tapping the most private attachment to ground for the purposes of the most public statecraft.” Every Ashoka...
Noor Sabharwal
Aug 10, 2025


Smart Auctions, Shrewd Choices: IPL 2025’s Winning Formula
Staff Writers Aneek and Sarthak walk us through the 2025 IPL Season.
Aneek Chatterjee and Sarthak Gandhi
Aug 1, 2025
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