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Teesha Aurora
Jun 28, 2024
Spotify-Sanctioned Silencing: The Corporatization and Debasement of The Spirit of Music
When the very art that I use to escape the mundanities and irritants of everyday life becomes overrun with these same mundanities, the same

Aditya Roy
Feb 3, 2024
Controversy Erupts Over Ram Mandir Consecration Celebrations And Ram Ke Naam Screening
Ashoka University is a microcosm of India’s political dichotomy; perceived by the political right as a hyper-liberal bubble of privilege,...


Madiha Tariq
Jan 5, 2024
The Poetics and Politics of Chai
Shhh, shhh, shhh, it's time; it's about time; run, you must run… oh, no, it's done… I am late. If only I had made it two seconds earlier…...


Noor Sabharwal & Lamkhogin Haokip
Dec 29, 2023
What’s Missing on Manipur? A Kuki Student’s Perspective
People burned out of their homes in hundreds. Refugee camps raked with gunfire. Cities reduced to shards. Such headlines colour only the...


Srijana Siri
Nov 20, 2023
“Azadi, Ra Vali and March On” — The Public and Private Moorings of Dissent
हर ज़ोर ज़ुल्म की टक्कर में हड़ताल हमारा नारा है! At the face of any highhandedness, WE resist! तुमने माँगें ठुकराई हैं,...

Sukriti Chawla
Sep 14, 2023
On the Teach-in Series: An Inquiry into the Academic and the Political
Exploring the teach-ins’ meaning for Ashoka and the current academic and political climate, the negotiations demanded by these conversations


Srijana Siri
Sep 12, 2023
Protecting Our State Or The State: Decoding IB's Visit to Ashoka
On August 22nd, The Wire reported that the Intelligence Bureau (IB) visited Ashoka University to probe Professor Das’s already...

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...

The Edict
Apr 13, 2023
Beyond Parties and Platforms: An Interview with Pratham Arora
Aneesh Sriram, UG25 “I did not feel it would be honest to my campaign if I ran with a party” says Pratham Arora (Independent). As the...
Anjana Ashok
Feb 13, 2020
The Presidential Debate – As it Happened
Anjana Ashok, UG 22 The long-awaited Presidential Debate took place on February 10th, 2020, at 9 PM in Dr Reddy’s Auditorium. It was the...
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