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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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 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


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


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


Exception Is the New Rule: How Ashoka’s Administration Is Losing Student Trust
Ashoka University is now operating under a de facto ‘state of exception.’ Starting especially from the Spring Semester 2025, what used to...
The Edict
Jul 27, 2025
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