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“Identity Isn’t What They Box Us Into”: The Resilient Heart of Homebound

Once in a while, a film reminds you of our collective humanity, forcing us to enquire about the world and the life we live, shaking us awake. Homebound (2025), directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, is one such film.

Atharva Salve

Nov 4

Literary-Star Fiery Princess: On Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me

Mother Mary Comes To Me insists that it is an article of dissent. From its flaming red hardcover gazes a young Arundhati Roy, beedi in mouth—a brand aesthetic around a politics of defiance, carefully curated by designers at the publishing giant, Penguin.

Aishani Misra

Oct 29

Chronicles of the Untranslated: Bringing India’s Non-Fiction Voices to the Centre

A collaboration between The Ashoka Centre for Translation and Penguin Random House, Chronicles was introduced in April 2024 as a series of non-fiction translations “aimed at bringing creative-critical textual narratives from various Indian languages to English.” It also seeks to function as a living archive and resource as it gathers voices that might otherwise remain dispersed across India’s linguistic map.

Rohan Wagle

Oct 9

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Performing Arts

Running Out of Time: A Review

Ashoka’s first choice-driven play, titled ‘Out of Time’ has two meanings. “You are out of time because the period of time is repeating, but you’re also out of time because at the end of the play, one of the two characters passes away, or stops existing in that same plane of existence,” says Aritra Mukhopadhyay (UG2023), the director and writer of the play.

Atharva Salve and Jahnavi Krishna

Jun 12

A Long Way To The Top: On Ashoka’s School of Rock and the Magic of Adaptation

There’s a tangible buzz around campus on the evening of April 10 — although it’s not your average Thursday night at Ashoka. It is the opening night of School of Rock, an adaptation of the 2003 Richard Linklater film, a comedy starring Jack Black as Dewey Finn, a struggling musician who poses as a substitute teacher to win the Battle of the Bands.

Anoushka Kumar

May 13

Rage, Raga, and Rhythm: Indian Ocean at Ashoka

Indian Ocean performing in Ashoka University | Photo courtesy: Arish Azmat There is something about an Indian Ocean concert that feels...

Noyonika Dutta

Apr 19

The Anatomy of the One-Woman Play: Maiyya

Giya Sood speaks to the team of Maiyaa, a one-woman play that was performed in Black Box on 13th February.

Giya Sood

Mar 12

Review | Tattva: Dancing Through the Elements

The night of 28th November was filled with excitement as students rushed to see Abhinaya's, Ashoka University Dance Society’s, showcase.

Ananya Pendharkar

Jan 1

Campus Culture

On Performing Invisibility: the Heart of Twitter Community at Ashoka

Uditi Mahindra

Sep 24

Cut From the Same Cloth: CLAD and HerCampus

Giya Sood

Aug 19

Rage, Raga, and Rhythm: Indian Ocean at Ashoka

Noyonika Dutta

Apr 19

Reflections on Joe Sacco's workshop at Ashoka University

Kabir Ghosh

Mar 30

Reflections

Found in Translation: A Student’s Reflections from Bhashavaad 2.0

On the 29th and 30th of August, the second edition of Bhashavaad: National Translation Conference took place, organised by the Ashoka Centre for Translation in partnership with the New India Foundation, in an effort to bring scholars, writers, translators and publishers together.

Anoushka Kumar

Oct 4

What Banu Mushtaq's Booker Means for India

On May 21st, author Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, a collection of twelve short stories, originally written in Kannada and later translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi, won the coveted International Booker Prize, becoming the first ever Kannada book to do so. It came as a rebuke to India’s literary establishment.

Nikita Kalra

Jul 30

Far From Here, Far From Home: A Reading of Mira Nair’s "So Far From India"

Displacement, migration, or even just the act of moving out, was never simply about crossing borders or the unsettling of the familiar that follows, but also the shifting and suppression of desires.

Ayush Rawat

Jul 2