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Who does Ashoka belong to?
Dheeraj Sanghi, the newly appointed Dean of Student Affairs, informed the student body that the Governing Body  mandated the revised policies on Residence Life  and Disciplinary Proceedings  on 12th August. The Board Trustees, a group of businessmen who regularly donate to the university, backed the updated policies. The Governing Body consists of seven business executive-founders, the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, and the Secretary to the Government of Haryana, Department
The Edict
6 days ago


The Politics of Repression
When governments choose to treat their youth as expendable, they unwittingly create the opposition they fear the most. In Sri Lanka , it was the young protestors who camped outside the president’s office for months, forcing a government to resign. In Pakistan , the decades-old ban on student unions is being challenged, breathing new life into the country’s political discourse. Over the past decade, a pattern has emerged across South Asia: policies and practices that shut yout
Mehnoor Nisar
Oct 28


Admin Joins the Performative Mail Trend: Ashoka and O.P. Jindal Love Feminist (only in) Theory
On September 23rd, 2025, there was a protest at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonipat, regarding persistent threats to women’s...
Diva Savkur
Oct 10


Unseen but Seen: The Invisibility of Belonging
Who is an Ashoka student? I asked myself this when I wrote my admissions essay. On a campus where  more than 94% of undergraduates  come...
Neha Gajbhiye
Sep 26


Committee पे Committee: The Ashokan Handbook
This summer in Ashoka was more eventful than any– with unilateral policy decisions, unjust suspensions, and mold (lot and lot of it), I...
Avika Mantri
Sep 21


Rethinking the power of language
George Orwell, in his 1946 essay titled  Politics and the English Language , tears apart the jargonistic writings found in modern...
Nikita Bose
Sep 11


Alumni Open Letter comes in support of Housekeeping Workers Strike
To The Ashoka University Administration and Bluspring Enterprises Limited, We, the undersigned – Alumni of Ashoka University – are...
Ashoka Alumni
Sep 3


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


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


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...
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