Gauri Saxena, ASP 2018 The Creators is a fortnightly series of artist profiles of Ashokans who are actively involved in different creative fields including music, photography, creative writing, and visual or performing arts. Anushka is an ASP student and the avid photographer behind @browngirlgazin. This Instagram photography project is dedicated to, as Anushka describes it,… Keep Reading
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Vandita Bajaj, Class of 2020 Caryl Churchill’s original play, Top Girls, premiered in 1982 at the Royal Court Theatre, London. It was influenced by conversations on feminism and the multiple roles a woman has to play “successfully”. Decades later, we still grapple with the same questions. Tanvi Mehta(’18), Kaagni Harekal(’18), Shubhangi Karia (’18) and Veeha… Keep Reading
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Rohan Parikh (Junior Correspondent at Free Press Pvt. Ltd.) Fake Lies is a satire and humor series about Ashokan life and culture (or lack thereof). Last Thursday was unlike any other at Hoshak University. In the wee hours of the morning, long after the case-by-case students had been carted back to the University and the… Keep Reading
Himali Thakur, Class of 2019 Last Friday, a shocking piece of news hit social media: Avicii had passed away. His representative released a statement later, which read: “It is with profound sorrow that we announce the loss of Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii…. He was found dead in Muscat, Oman this Friday afternoon local… Keep Reading
Aditya Khemka, Class of 2018 ‘Only the dead have seen the end of war.’ — Plato The intention of these articles are to chronicle the theatres of World War II, and the events on which the outcome of the war hinged. In an age when the television had still not taken over, newspaper reigned supreme. News consumption… Keep Reading
Sindhoora Ganesh and Siddhant Sachdeva, Class of 2019 “Life is as much about planning as it is about chance. Perhaps it is much more chance than planning, and it might be entirely by chance that I got into Economics”, says Professor Hemanshu Kumar, Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka. Having taught at Ashoka for almost… Keep Reading
Priyanka Shankar and Diksha Lahoti, Class of 2019 Coming from a small town in Odisha, Professor Ajit Mishra did not particularly have too many big dreams or ambitions. Sports, debating, and reading were the only sources of entertainment for him. He fondly remembers the common library in Bolangir, near Cuttack, Odisha, as a popular center… Keep Reading
Avneesh Garimella, Class of 2019 As the Ashoka Premier League (APL) 3.0 is set to begin on the 20th of April, the entire campus is buzzing with excitement over the event. From the auction to late night practices by the teams, APL is as big an event as any other in Ashoka. I decided to… Keep Reading