Hollow-Teens
Sadhvi Dash, UG’22 Keep Reading
The Game is On
Somya Wadhwa, UG’22. Keep Reading
Dengue Drive
Shubhang Ojha, Undergraduate Class of 2020 Keep Reading
Are Ashokans Ready To Mobilise?: Protest Culture on Campus
Kiana Manian, Undergraduate Class of 2021 17th September was a historic night for Ashoka, as students and a couple of professors gathered in Takshila to discuss their outrage against arbitrarily implemented policies on campus that change the very fabric of Ashokan student life. The absence of the administration members did little to absolve them of… Keep Reading
A Call to Reclaim Our Dwindling Ashokan Culture
-Aggam Walia (UG 22) Recent developments on campus have led to a standoff between the administration and the Student Government and pose serious threats to Ashoka University’s commitment towards liberal values. The administration’s unilateral decisions concerning student life, their refusal to amend their mistakes and their attempts to define Ashokan culture (see Intra-University Events Policy)… Keep Reading
Slacking at Ashoka: The Polarizing Ashokan Academic Culture
-Sonal Rana (UG 20) Scrolling through the Ashoka website, I found myself dazzled by the rigorous interdisciplinary academic model that Ashoka promised me. But that was three years ago. An experienced present-day me is more attentive to the nuances of the Ashokan academic culture. There is a divide that marks the liberal studies culture at… Keep Reading
Financial Raid
-Tanisha Singh Keep Reading
In conversation with Devapriya Roy: On Self-Definition, Settings, Surprises (and of course, A Suitable Boy)
Pratiti, Undergraduate Batch of 2020 Devapriya Roy is the author of three best-selling novels, one travel-memoir and one graphic biography, and many of the newbies should know that she has been a former Professor for Critical Thinking and Creative Writing courses at Ashoka not too long ago (yes, we keep asking her to come back… Keep Reading
A Timeline of Chaos
Gayatri Kulkarni, UG21, Over the past few months, The Office of Student Life (OSL) has taken multiple, seemingly arbitrary decisions which have come under much criticism from the student body. Much of the criticism was directed at the despotic nature with which these decisions have been taken. A point illustrated by the fact that the… Keep Reading
Authority and Hubris
A History of struggle(after class) against the Office of Student Life -Sparsh Agarwal (UG 19) In my first year, I remember writing a bunch of articles wondering and questioning what our Ashokan Ethos should be. My ideas were rather myopic and one dimensional. But there were others who pitched in from the student body. It… Keep Reading