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AUSG September report: New Committees finalised
Gauri Deshpande (UG '27) covers the recent September Monthly Report released by the AUSG.
Gauri Deshpande
Oct 30, 2025


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, 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


Negotiations with Bluspring see Positive Results, Nobel Prize Nominee Shabnam Hashmi Arrives for Teach-in
Tanush Guha (UG '26) and Nysa Sanghvi (UG '27) report on the ninth day of the housekeeping workers' protest.
Tanush Guha and Nysa Sanghvi
Sep 6, 2025


Empathy, Apathy, and the Politics of Caring
As several workers remain gathered outside Gate 1 of Ashoka University to have their demands of fair pay, clear increments, and the...
Swasti Chaudhary
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


"Mazdoor Ekta Zindabaad": Housekeeping Workers' Protest continues on Day 2
The Edict covers the second day of the Housekeeping Workers’ Protest, where workers continue to gather outside Gate 1, Ashoka University demanding fair wages, reasonable increments, and protesting the arbitrary dismissal of three didis.
The Edict
Aug 30, 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


“Empathy, Care and Compassion to our Students”: DSA Tells Parents as AUSG Continues to Urge for Student Deliberation
Anamta Husain (UG’27) and Gauri Deshpande (UG’27) report on the events occurring in the aftermath of the release of new university policies and the mandatory signing of the accompanying declaration.
Anamta Husain and Gauri Deshpande
Aug 13, 2025
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