Giya Sood

As of Saturday, 6th September 2025, Ashoka University housekeeping staff’s protest continued, moving into its ninth day. As part of a series of student-organised public talks, celebrated human rights lawyer and Supreme Court advocate Colin Gonsalves spoke at 4:30 p.m., followed by a session at 5:00 p.m. by constitutional lawyer, law scholar, and author of The Transformative Constitution Gautam Bhatia. 

A reel by a club at Ashoka may just be a few seconds of stimulation in the course of a doom scroll, but the aphorism ‘a picture speaks a thousand words’ holds for a reason—a video, then? Arguably, even more. The seemingly insignificant reel becomes important to us all, for this bite of information plays a vital role in how our institution is perceived. The number of times a friend from another university has sent me a reel from HerCampus or CLAD is, well, countless.

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

A review of Jo Dooba So Paar: An Immersion in Kathak

Arts and Culture editor Giya Sood (UG'27) writes about what Ashokans can learn from Arundhati Roy in terms of privilege and dissent.

Giya Sood of the A&C Department writes about loving and living after love: the comforts of friends, strangers, music, films, and work.