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On Performing Invisibility: the Heart of Twitter Community at Ashoka
Micro-blogging on platforms like Twitter (Now ‘X’) is often anonymised. You go by a nickname, and never include a picture or your...
Uditi Mahindra
Sep 24, 2025


The Ultimate Project: Inside the Season of the 2024-25 Ashoka Hammerheads
Aneek Chatterjee and Yashwanth Bommareddy (UG'27) write about the University's Ultimate Frisbee team—The Hammerheads, and their 2024-25 Season.
Aneek Chatterjee and Yashwanth Reddy
Sep 17, 2025


Ashoka Classes move out of AC Rooms to support Workers Protest as Faculty releases a new Petition
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.
Madiha Tariq
Sep 5, 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


Cut From the Same Cloth: CLAD and HerCampus
A reel by a club at Ashoka may just be a few seconds of stimulation in the course of a doom scroll, but the aphorism ‘a picture speaks a thousand words’ holds for a reason—a video, then? Arguably, even more. The seemingly insignificant reel becomes important to us all, for this bite of information plays a vital role in how our institution is perceived. The number of times a friend from another university has sent me a reel from HerCampus or CLAD is, well, countless.
Giya Sood
Aug 19, 2025


Benched Once Again: Female Footballers Held Back by Ignorance & Ineptitude
Maleah Mehta (UG'27) reports on the rise of ACL injuries in Ashoka, the lack of scientific attention to women in global sports and the need for better sports facilities at Ashoka.
Maleah Mehta
Aug 18, 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


(If) I Get To The Club, I Wanna Hear Those Club classics: What’s Wrong With Clubs and Societies at Ashoka
On March 26th, an incensed email titled “Addressing Bias and Favoritism in Club, Society, and Event Selections” was sent to the entire...
Diva Savkur
Aug 4, 2025
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