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Negotiation with Protestors Fails: All 3 Demands Rejected, Bluspring Withholds Workers’ Wages
Negotiations between Bluspring Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kamal Pal Hoda and a delegation of ten housekeeping staff mediated by...
Antara Kulkarni and Ishaan Varior
Sep 3, 2025


Ashoka to Mediate Negotiations between Protesting Housekeeping Workers & BluSpring: Registrar to Represent University Administration
On the morning of 2nd September 2025, Vice-Chancellor Somak Raychaudhury assured that Ashoka University would have a discussion between...
Tanisha Pandey
Sep 2, 2025


“The Seasons Have Come and Gone”: Housekeeping Workers on the fifth day of the Protest
In the late afternoon, heavy rains caused the makeshift test housing workers and students present to collapse, causing workers to set up two smaller tents. Many were forced to return home.
Ananya Kakkar and Antara Kulkarni
Sep 2, 2025


“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


"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


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


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
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