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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.

George Orwell, in his 1946 essay titled   Politics and the English Language , tears apart the jargonistic writings found in modern...

“Nationalism is produced by tapping the most private attachment to ground for the purposes of the most public statecraft.”  Every Ashoka...

On March 26th, an incensed email titled “Addressing Bias and Favoritism in Club, Society, and Event Selections” was sent to the entire...

On May 21st, author Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, a collection of twelve short stories, originally written in Kannada and later translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, won the coveted International Booker Prize, becoming the first ever Kannada book to do so. It came as a rebuke to India’s literary establishment.

Displacement, migration, or even just the act of moving out, was never simply about crossing borders or the unsettling of the familiar that follows, but also the shifting and suppression of desires.

Bikhchandani’s views must be taken seriously, not because they are a sign of things to come at Ashoka, but because he is an important stakeholder in Indian higher education, whose thoughts must be examined and questioned for what they are, and not what they signify.

December 6, 1956 marked the loss of Bharat Ratna Dr B.R Ambedkar, lovingly referred to as Babasaheb Ambedkar. Babasaheb died peacefully in his sleep, three days after completing his final manuscript for Buddha and His Dhamma. The Buddhist cremation ceremony at Dadar Chowpatty beach on December 7, 1956, was marked by the presence of half a million grieving people

All We Imagine as Light (2024), directed by Payal Kapadia, is a contemplative drama that follows the intertwined lives of three women in Mum

It is early January 2025. Every second article is buzzing with the news: the world-renowned, well-beloved Neil Gaiman is a predator."