For knowledge to go the distance in this time of social distancing, we are opening our doors to the world with a series of live and interactive virtual seminars where everyone is welcome. Called ‘Beyond the Classroom’, the series will be taught by our stellar faculty members and will explore a universe of interesting and relevant ideas spanning a range of subjects, from Philosophy to Biology, Literature to Physics, and more. Read more... |
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Mental health in times of COVID-19 Coronavirus (hereafter COVID-19) continues to hold the world hostage. The global economy is at a standstill, most countries have imposed lockdowns and misinformation is flying thick and fast among people desperate to spot any good news. In the flood of news about the pandemic, one aspect needs to receive more attention – the impact it is having on mental health. Read more... |
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Media Action Against Rape (MAAR) Every day, a huge number of undocumented and unsettling incidents of rape and sexual violence occur in India, however, only a handful of those stories get reported. Some rape cases get a huge amount of attention while others fail to even make it on the first page of the newspaper or TV headline. To address many or all these concerns, Bournemouth University and UNESCO joined hands for a research and capacity building project called Media Action Against Rape (MAAR) in New Delhi. It is a comprehensive research study on Indian media’s reportage of rape and sexual violence. Ashoka University has been a central part of this project. Read how our Media Studies department and students played a crucial role in this project. Read more... |
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Ashoka's YouTube Channel Ashoka University's YouTube channel with new improved playlists is here! To help people easily access all our videos, we have categorised our playlists according to the broad thematic areas. From Events & Conferences to Global Education, from Ashoka Faculty to Ashoka Programmes, from Students Speak to Founders Speak - it's all under one platform! Take a look here. |
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The month of April is observed as Autism Awareness Month globally. On account of this, the Office of Learning Support, organised a social media awareness campaign throughout this month aimed at recognising and promoting the rights of persons with autism. As part of this campaign, the office had field experts, students, parents, teachers, and senior management members share their profound insights with us. The main highlights of this campaign included our Vice-chancellor, Prof. Malabika Sarkar, sharing her views on the need for inclusion of students with autism in higher education; a social activist, Merry Barua, talking about the need to change the way we perceive persons with autism; an Ashoka student giving her views on looking at autism through a neurodiversity framework; and a parent talking about how Ashoka enabled the seamless transition of their child with autism. These varied perspectives highlighted the need to celebrate different kinds of minds, promote acceptance, and be inclusive in our everyday lives. |
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CSIP | Open House Ashoka's Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy (CSIP) hosted an open house to answer questions on social sector career options in light of the current scenario. Date: April 02, 2020 |
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CDO | Alumni Sessions Session 1: A Generalists Guide to Surviving the Job Market (Intro to Consulting, Energy Sector in India, and life) by Kartik Gulati a Young India Fellow from the batch of 2017. The session was moderated by Akashmegh ASP (Ashoka Scholars Programme) batch of 2018 Of Alumni Council. Date: April 04, 2020 |
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CDO | Alumni Sessions Session 2: Intro to Venture Capital, by Anirban Kundu, ASP (Ashoka Scholars Programme) batch of 2018. The session was moderated by Akashmegh ASP (Ashoka Scholars Programme) batch of 2018 Of Alumni Council. Date: April 09, 2020 |
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CDO Speaker Series | Webinar with Pramath Sinha This is everybody’s first pandemic. But this is not the first time you will be faced with unwelcome conditions or a plummeting economy, and it won’t be the last. This month’s CDO Speaker Series brings you a webinar with Pramath Sinha, Founder & Trustee, Ashoka University, and an eminent educationist. Amid the morbid and morose taste of COVID in the air, the graduating class of 2020 will be taking a giant leap into a receding economy and an arduous market where their worth will be tenfold harder to prove. Date: April 10, 2020 |
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AIM Smart City Accelerator |
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As part of AIM Smart City Accelerator's Learning Lab III, Mathew Isac, and Ramakrishnan Venkateswaran conducted an enriching online session on 'Challenges & Way Ahead for Businesses during COVID 19 Crisis' for the cohort startups. Their talk also marked the completion of the AIM Smart City programme for the 4th cohort. |
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CDO | Alumni Sessions Sessions 3: A Walk through Wall St: Investment Banking 101 by Aditya Khemka Undergraduate batch of 2018. The session was moderated by Akashmegh ASP (Ashoka Scholars Programme) batch of 2018 Of Alumni Council. Date: April 18, 2020 |
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Launch of Ashoka's Alumni Portal Our new Ashoka Alumni Portal is here! This is Ashoka's very own networking portal where all Ashoka alumni will have exclusive access to events, jobs, mentors, along with keeping in touch with their alma mater. The portal brings the alumni community together by providing you with access to - - A running feed of alumni updates, interesting content, photos, and conversations.
- A full opt-in directory of alumni and other university stakeholders, allowing alumni to connect with your Ashoka University community around the world.
- A mentorship programme giving members the opportunity to be mentored by others or offer mentorship to fellow alumni.
- A job board with current opportunities, posted by alumni, Career Development Office, and strategic partners.
- Group conversations to engage at a more granular level with those with the same class, interests, careers, industries, locations.
- Events posted by alumni and Ashoka University, inviting alumni to upcoming events encouraging pop-up engagement, coffee meetings around the world, webinars hosted by subject matter experts within our networks, and other organic engagement opportunities created for and by the members.
- A business directory for our alumni to share their awesome projects.
Date: April 18, 2020 |
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CWC Podcast The first episode, Argument, Counter-argument, Counter to counter-argument, of the CWC Podcast #BackToTheTutor was released on April 18, 2020. You can listen to it here. |
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CSIP Webinar Ashoka's Centre for Social Impact and Philosophy (CSIP) organised a webinar with Osama Manzar (Founder, Digital Empowerment Foundation) on Innovation on Ground: Digital Empowerment during Quarantine. The recording has now been uploaded on CSIP's YouTube channel. Date: April 21, 2020 |
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Merit Awards The Annual Merit Awards were announced on Thursday, 23rd April by the Dean of Student Affairs through an email to the Ashoka community. The awards rooted in the philosophy of recognising contributions towards enriching inspiring campus experience for all, honored students from across all the academic programmes and batches. Among the Student Life awards, the Residence Life category recognised 6 individuals and 4 initiatives that went out of their comfort zone in their attempt to build a better community while the Clubs and Societies category honored the contributions made by 16 student groups towards building a vibrant extra-curricular culture at Ashoka. The Student Life Service and Excellence awards were an opportunity to appreciate 8 exceptional students who pushed beyond their boundaries and were ambassadors of the university through their work. The awards also honored 12 individuals and 3 initiatives that deserved a special mention for their extraordinary accomplishments. The Sports awards recognised the contributions made by 12 of our sports teams and their members. Honours were bestowed on 27 standout performers from 10 sports disciplines as well as the sole sports excellence awardee for their phenomenal achievements in 2019-20. The awards also acknowledged the contributions of 17 sports leaders who had led Ashoka to greater heights during the last academic year. Date: April 23, 2020 |
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CDO Speaker Series | Webinar with Vineet Gupta In the midst of the current crisis, it is forecasted that millions of students worldwide preparing to pursue higher education will have to drastically alter their plans. Could you be one of them? While more universities transform pedagogies to be technologically inclusive, transitioning to MOOCs and degrees delivered online will take more time than is on our hands right now. How, then, will higher education be envisioned in the near future, and is it still worth the investment? Vineet Gupta, one of the country's specialists in higher education, and an Ashoka Founder weighs in on the topic. |
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A Portfolio Approach to Fundraising in times of COVID-19 Ashoka's Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy's (CSIP) Director Ingrid Srinath led an ISDM Masterclass webinar on fundraising during this crisis. Date: April 24, 2020 |
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CSGS Event: Ishq | Pride, Politics, Solidarity The charges of sedition filed against a group of participants at a Mumbai Pride Solidarity gathering in February this year raised important questions about existing fissures within the "queer movement" in India. In the projected utopia of queer lives post-377, what does it mean to demand solidarity between subjects who emerge from multiple political and social histories? As the lockdown continues, the term "solidarity" is co-opted to deploy communal hatred, suppress dissent and target communities, all in the garb of creating a united India to fight the virus. In this context, how can we think of organising during an ongoing pandemic and think of a future politics that does not prioritize some lives over others? Speakers: Vyjayanti Vasanta Mogli (Founding Member, Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samiti), Jason Keith Fernandes (Researcher, Centre for Research in Anthropology) |
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Online Research Workshop by CWC Writing Tutors, Aakshi Magazine, and Senjuti Chakraborti conducted an online dissertation writing workshop on April 24, 2020, for MA Urban Studies students at Ambedkar University, Delhi. |
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AIM Smart City Cohort Startups Two AIM Smart City cohort startups, RaddiConnect and Green Worms conducted pan-India sessions on "How To Dispose Waste Safely In Times Of COVID-19" and "Social Entrepreneurship in the Waste Management Sector" respectively. The sessions were particularly insightful in the current time and were well-received by the audience. |
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence Ashoka's Centre for Entrepreneurship (CFE) completed the Entrepreneur-in-Residence programme for the 5th Cohort through online meetings. The Entrepreneur-in-Residence programme is a five-month-long intensive incubation programme designed to help entrepreneurs from the Ashoka Community. The entrepreneurs in residence get an opportunity to stay on campus while working on their entrepreneurial idea under industry mentors and receive a generous stipend apart from getting access to world-class content on venture development and business planning. |
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A Portfolio Approach to Fundraising in times of COVID-19 Ashoka's Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy's (CSIP) Director Ingrid Srinath contributed to an article for IDR’s COVID-19 coverage. You can read it here. |
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How philanthropy works in times of crisis Ashoka's Centre for Social Impact and Philosophy (CSIP) created a short video on India's Giving Jar: How Philanthropy Works in Times of Crisis. Date: April 26, 2020 |
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CDO | Alumni Sessions Sessions 4: Navigating Media in the Tech and Post Truth Age by Sourya Reddy, Undergraduate batch of 2017. He spoke about building a journalism organisation in the present world, understanding 'new media' and skills one needs to be familiar with to enter the space. Date: April 30, 2020 |
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CDO Speaker Series | E-commerce and Epidemics: Upskilling for a Post-COVID Economy How E-Commerce will act as a prime strategy to grapple with the receding economy in these pandemic times? Also, what is in the basket for young professionals/freshers to pick from this. TN Hari, Head HR, Bigbasket | Freelance Columnist, HT Mint | Faculty, Harappa Education | Member of Corporate Advisory Board, Chandigarh University Date: May 01, 2020 |
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Online Summer School by CWC Applications are open for the Centre for Writing and Communication's (CWC) Online Summer School 2020 in Creative Writing as well as Research Writing. The last date to apply is 15 May. For more details and to apply, click here. |
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CWC Podcast CWC podcast is now available on SoundCloud and will feature conversations and discussions from within and beyond CWC. |
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By the Office of Communications and Media Relations |
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