By Devika Goswami, UG22 The student government acquired more importance since we went online last year. SG decisions now also cover the return of students to campus, negotiating workers’ welfare, and organising mass dissent in light of the recent faculty resignations, amongst other causes. Pardon the cliché, but with great power comes great responsibility, and… Keep Reading
By Mahika Dhar (UG23) and Siya Sharma (UG23) The recent, jarring resignations of Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Professor Arvind Subramanian from Ashoka’s teaching staff were met with a veritable flurry of media coverage and student and faculty-centric protest, in an expansive show of solidarity and support. These unprecedented circumstances threw open previously untouched, unnoticed,… Keep Reading
Arjun Khanna, Undergraduate Batch of 2023 Formula 1, like any other sport, is an ever-changing business. We witness new eras, personnel changes and rule modifications every year. Each season continues to perpetually generate new chapters in the history of the sport. The past decade saw the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel come to… Keep Reading
By Smriti Nambudiri, Undergraduate Batch of 2022 and Amogha Sharma, Undergraduate Batch of 2023 A few weeks before Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s widely discussed exit from Ashoka University, an Office Memorandum had raised several eyebrows. The Office Memorandum issued by the Ministry of External Affairs outlined stringent guidelines for public universities organising international seminars online. There… Keep Reading
By Saadia Peerzada, Undergraduate Batch of 2022 In the wake of Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramaniam’s resignations from Ashoka University, students came together in record numbers to protest the lack of transparency from the administration. Artistic expressions were auxiliary to their demands for rectifying structural lapses. Protestors expressed their dissent through visual art,… Keep Reading
By Mahika Dhar (UG23) and Shivani Deshmukh (UG22) The recent influx of media attention on Ashoka university protests has been powerful not only in amplifying the demand for academic freedom but also in forcing the board of management to recognise student demands. But there has been an ugly offspring of media hyper-focus that views this… Keep Reading
TW – This article contains a mention of suicide By Akanksha Mishra, UG22 When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with the Roman army in 49 BC, that one act was said to have largely led to the beginning of the Roman Civil War. Since then, the term ‘crossing the Rubicon’ became an idiom, meaning… Keep Reading
By Edict News Staff (Editors’ Note: This article was originally published on 20th March. The editors decided to archive it until we could update it with comments from the Founders. The updated article is published at 3PM on 21st March.) An investigation by The Edict found that Reimagining Higher Education Foundation (RHEF), which set up… Keep Reading
– Edict News Staff The Student Government, on 19th March, called for “a boycott of all classes on Monday and Tuesday” (22nd and 23rd March) to push for three demands that were made in the wake of resignations by Prof. Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Prof. Arvind Subramanian earlier this week. These demands are: an unconditional… Keep Reading
By Edict News Staff In the wake of Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s resignation from the university, which came out as an Indian Express article on 17th March 2020, there ensued discussions about whether this decision was purely voluntary or was because of his being a critic of the ruling establishment. Following Prof. Mehta’s resignation, Dr.… Keep Reading