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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


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


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


(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


TRUMP 2.0: ACADEMIA IN CRISIS
Academia has turned into a flaccid, ailing body as academic freedom, accessibility and equity face a severe crisis.
Madiha Tariq
Jul 1


Sound of Scholarship: Why Ashoka shivers at the word ‘caste’
An image of Ashoka's administrative building | Photo courtesy: Arish Azmat Ashoka was founded as one of India’s largest philanthropic...
Avika Mantri
Mar 25


A Price Too High: The Human Cost of Commodifying International Students
After 4 years, Lakshmi Priya’s DPhil at Oxford University was downgraded to a Masters with assessors citing a lack of “scope” in her work.
Neha Gajbhiye
Feb 13
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