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Maria Corina Machado is now a Nobel laureate with her win arriving on the heels of months of lobbying by Donald Trump. From boasting of ending seven wars, which included making tenuous headway towards peace in Gaza, to gathering endorsements from global leaders, and even calling Norway’s finance minister  for his support, there is little Trump has not done to assert his claim—seemingly all for naught when Machado was selected instead. But is her win truly more palatable? What

Ashoka’s student body is divided, and not by choice. What goes on to shape these choices lies within the institution, putting students at multiple ends — physically and figuratively — of this university.  Take, for example, the first weekend of the Workers’ Protest on the 30th and 31st August. Two striking scenes lay bare inside and outside the university space. While protesting students and workers  sat outside, waiting for the administration’s response on the demands set, a

On September 23rd, 2025, there was a protest at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonipat, regarding persistent threats to women’s...

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...

This summer in Ashoka was more eventful than any– with unilateral policy decisions, unjust suspensions, and mold (lot and lot of it), I...

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

The first hands to touch Ashoka University each morning are not those of its students or professors, but of the didis  and bhaiyyas  who...

“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...