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Neha Gajbhiye
Feb 13
A Price Too High: The Human Cost of Commodifying International Students
After 4 years, Lakshmi Priya’s DPhil at Oxford University was downgraded to a Masters with assessors citing a lack of “scope” in her work.


Madiha Tariq
Dec 2, 2024
TRUMP 2.0: ACADEMIA IN CRISIS
Academia has turned into a flaccid, ailing body as academic freedom, accessibility and equity face a severe crisis.

“Stuck in a Bad Equilibrium:” 10 Years in, Ashoka Grapples with its Liberal Arts Ethos
Read the article here: 10 Years of Ashoka

Srijana Siri and Vaibhav Jain
Jan 7, 2024
“I have tried to walk the Ashoka Vision” — Pulapre Balakrishnan’s unflinching commitment to academic freedom
At a time when Dr Sabyasachi Das’s working paper, Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy, was heavily scrutinized and...

Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Sep 20, 2023
Revolutions Begin with NO!
Logic only provides signposts for wayfarers on the path of truth. Love provides the light.

Zainab Firdausi
Sep 8, 2023
And Yet It Moves: On Ashoka & Its Administrative Tyrants
Ashoka University was founded with a pool of investment from several different individuals so as not to be beholden to a single founder’s...


Insha Husain
Sep 6, 2023
Welfare in Farewells
As history repeats itself at Ashoka University with a chilling likeness to the events of March 2021, the Department of Economics appears...

Rutuparna Deshpande
Aug 28, 2023
Ashoka’s Tongue is Still Stuck to a Saffron Pole: Strike 3 with Academic Freedom
At the cusp of a new academic year, an unsettling deja vu engulfs us.


Ruhaan Shah
Aug 19, 2023
Ashoka University’s Descent into Academic (un)Freedom
In his resignation letter to former Vice-Chancellor Malabika Sarkar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta claims that, “After a meeting with the Founders...


Keerthana Panchanathan and Sophia Noble
Aug 18, 2023
Ad-Hoc Committee Evaluated Political Context of Das's Paper: Faculty in Open Meeting
In an open meeting hosted by the Ashoka University Student Government (AUSG) on Wednesday, 16th August, students, alumni and faculty...
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