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The last tournament of the monsoon semester brought a gold in men’s football, two silvers in men’s badminton and squash, a litany of semi-final appearances and some stern reality checks for the Ashokan sports contingents. Eighteen Ashokan sports teams across ten disciplines were in action at SURGE 2026, the sports fest of Shiv Nadar University (SNU), from 29th October to 1st November.

On 3rd September, the Ashoka Office of Sports and Exercise formally confirmed the Squad Leaders for the academic year 2026/27. These are the new leaders of the Ashoka sports fraternity. As the biggest tournament of the Monsoon semester closes in — Surge, hosted by Shiv Nadar University (SNU) — there is no time to waste. With a solid foundation already in place, the teams’ performance at SNU will look to solidify the authority of this new generation of captains.

If Green Day were bigger fans of the SEC Batch Championships, they’d never have recorded “Wake Me Up When September Ends.” Their loss, as that glorious purpose falls to us at Edict Sports — and across five days, 17 sports, 294 Instagram stories and heaven knows how many posts on X (formerly Twitter), it was a purpose we embraced with open arms, as two-time defending Batch Champions UG2023, chasing a record-extending threepeat, were finally dethroned by the UG2025s.

It’s April, it’s APL! There is no better place to spend one of spring’s last weekends on campus than on the football field watching teams fight it out for Ashoka’s (arguably) most important intra-college trophy; the Ashoka Premier League. People who cheered for the Ashokan football teams on the sideline during Agneepath now have the chance to prove themselves on the same ground where the Alums claimed glory this year, proving their talent in the best way possible in front of

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

The final day of Agneepath 7.0 delivered drama, heartbreak and joy aplenty. The Ashoka Red teams won gold in women’s football, women’s badminton, men’s cricket, tennis and chess, while there were silvers for men’s football (Blue), women’s basketball, men’s badminton, squash (all Red) and pool, and bronze in shooting. The women’s badminton team had a Sunday to remember, sweeping Shiv Nadar University 3-0 in the semifinal and then beating longtime rivals, OP Jindal Global Univ

Perseverance. For the seventh edition of Ashoka’s sports fest ‘Agneepath’, Edict Sports decided to sit down and talk to members of the women’s football team including the current leadership, Priyanshi Singh (UG2023) and Sanjna Sridhar (UG2023) along with Nihar Roy (UG2024) and Susanna John (UG2024). After I had finished completing the set of interviews, I sat down, wondering how I could put down the stories and insights I had gleaned from my conversations onto paper for the A

Your football speaks for itself. An apt summary of the Ashoka Men’s Football Team. The AUMFC’s football certainly speaks for itself, and it does so in volumes, as they enter Agneepath with a record that is hard to ignore. Since their first gold at BITS Goa in March of 2025, the side has put together a brilliant run of tournament victories, kicking off the new academic year with a gold at BITS Pilani, then coming back to sweep the World University of Design’s Cult sports fes

Aneek Chatterjee reports on the results from Day 2 of Agneepath.