By Amola Mehta (UG21) and Maanya Saran (UG21) Dear Shashank and everyone else, We’d like to begin by saying that, as fellow alumni of the Election Commission, we were very happy to see you candidly engaging with questions that afflict Ashokan politics. We are penning this letter in response to your 25th January op-ed in… Keep Reading
By Anjana Ashok, UG 22 Team ‘decoloniszing our bookshelves’, Vika Mujumdar, Madhushree Kulkarni, and Kimaya Kulkarni, is a collaborative community project focusing on making literature and art by authors of marginalized and intersectional identities more visible. The Elevator Pitch Vika, Madhushree and Kimaya are three friends pursuing different majors at different universities. One thing they… Keep Reading
Rohan Agarwal, Undergraduate Batch of 2023 After the euphoric victory over Australia in one of the best Test series of all time, the Indian Cricket team return to the subcontinent to host England in a two-month-long series. England’s tour of India is one that has everyone’s attention as India look to secure qualification to the… Keep Reading
Written by Arya Shukla (UG 23) and Ananya Gupta (UG 22) When the pandemic set in and students deserted the campus en masse, reports began surfacing about contractual workers being laid off and, in some cases, coerced to resign. The Student Government mobilised for their cause, raised an amount of money that is bigger than… Keep Reading
By Isa Ayidh, UG 22 Image Credits: ashoka.edu.in In conversation with historian, writer, and associate professor of History at Ashoka University, Aparna Vaidik who was recently awarded a grant of £50,000 (about Rs.50 lacs) by the British academy for the project titled ‘The Ownership of Public History in India’ (TOPHI). Her co-collaborators are Dr Shalini… Keep Reading
By Shashank Mattoo (UG20) Ashokan elections never fail to disappoint. As someone who spent two years in the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC), I thought, like all old-timers do, that I had seen it all. However, with two former election commissioners taking up the mantle of student politicians amid much hue and cry, I find… Keep Reading
In discussions about civic rights, the right to vote is emphasised, and rightly so. But this right, often framed as a duty — as responsible citizens, we ought to vote — receives outsized attention. What we forget is that this right is inseparable from its counterpart – the right to contest. If you are entitled… Keep Reading
Kartikay Dutta, Undergraduate Batch of 2023 and Gaurav Nandan Tripathi, Undergraduate Batch of 2020 Bruised, abused, depleted and yet successful — that was, in a nutshell, the 2020/21 Border Gavaskar Trophy for India. It’s a tale which will be remembered for the rising up of unusual suspects to the cause in the absence of star… Keep Reading
By many yardsticks, the 6th Student Government made history. It gave us our first female President, Priavi Joshi, who went on to appoint the highest number of women in the Cabinet, seven out of nine. It was elected using the new Swiss PR voting system, in the first two-day-long election that saw a five-year high… Keep Reading
In an exclusive statement shared with The Edict on Sunday, the Ashoka University Election Commission has admitted that it will be unable to implement the provision for ballot measures for the upcoming election cycle. As enshrined in the Constitution, members of the student body have the right to float a petition for a ballot measure*… Keep Reading