geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি

she/her • writing & editing; del & cal • inactive, unresponsive & elsewhere, mostly

[geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি @geetswrites]

i read a book i really loved & scroll let me write about it! if you’d like to read some truly profound konkani short stories in translation, please do pick up prakash parienkar’s collection (and maybe have a look at what i had to say about it).

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

Turning the page, in this collection, does not allow us to turn away; over and over, we witness the painstaking work that goes into existence being erased in pitiless seconds.

https://t.co/6GIvMAVb22

Geetanjali Roy reviews Prakash Parienkar’s short stories collection.

[geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি @geetswrites]

@AshokaUniv you've shown your hand; it's a weak one. you control the bureaucratic machinery. unfortunately for you, relationships of solidarity are not so easily governed & a fired-up student body is not so easily intimidated. shame.

[The Edict @AshokaEdict]

BREAKING : The AUSG email ID is now back up. Vice Chancellor Somak Raychaudhary has sent an email denying the administration's role in the incident. The photo below shows what SG members saw for the hour or so that they were trying to log-in.

[geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি @geetswrites]

startling piece + one of the edict’s first data driven stories; great interviews and arguments. while the overall narrative is somewhat disheartening, it is so so heartening to see this work being done by @AshokaEdict . incredibly proud.

[The Edict @AshokaEdict]

Karnav Popat, Vishnu Prakash, Aditya Roy and Srijana Siri looked at the changing preferences of majors at Ashoka. The major-minor data, they find that since the pandemic, students are shifting towards combinations that offer a better return on investment.

https://t.co/DhAoBlbHtW

[Ashoka Centre for Translation @TranslationAtAU]

Translation Hackathon with Pratham Books @prathambooks

Join us for a two-day workshop and translate graphic stories for children into Indian languages.

Deadline to Apply: October 17: https://t.co/m6JLyQgCDN. (Open only to Ashoka University students.)

#TranslationHackathon

[disha wadekar @WadekarDisha]

Today, the Supreme Court struck down provisions in various State Prison Manuals that mandated the assignment of work in prisons based on caste & the classification of denotified tribes as habitual offenders. The judgment was delivered in Sukanya Shantha v. UOI~1

[geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি @geetswrites]

always proud of the @edict_sports team for their coverage of ashokan sports; batch championships updates have been engaging and dedicated as per! only times in the year where i’m not mad about sports on the timeline.

[The Edict Sports @ Ashoka University @edict_sports]

That's that. After a long 4 days of jam-packed sporting action across the Ashoka campus, UG2023s continue the tradition of 2nd years winning the championships!
A huge shoutout to the ASPs, who came in 2nd place and pushed the championships to the end, despite missing members.

[geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি @geetswrites]

one of the most phenomenal, startling, unsettling and discomfiting productions i've witnessed, especially since it did such brilliant work with the idea of viewership, passivity/activity & what an "audience" is. 10/10 rec, @ob_jato @slurrysulphide

[Abhijato @ob_jato]

Over the past few months, I co-wrote and co-directed a theatre adaptation of The Mahabharata.

It asks: what if Krishna and Draupadi were a part of 2000s Bollywood?

I couldn't feel prouder of the team and how it's turned out. Go watch now!

https://t.co/VTIfW36sgT

[geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি @geetswrites]

happy birthday, ajay bisht!

[geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি @geetswrites]

They're forcing the administration to do this and we'd do well to recognise that.

[geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি @geetswrites]

"You want a census - do it yourself. Don’t depend on the admin to do it" — interesting! Attempts at caste surveys, in fact, have been made at a batch-wise level.

What these attempts reveal feeds @forum2024's demands for an institutionally conducted census.

[Sanjeev Bikhchandani @sbikh]

A bit of an overclaim. The protesting students came and stood outside the door of the class during the ten minute break after the first hour of the class. They shouted slogans for two or three minutes and then went away. I was inside the classroom in a conversation with some students. We continued the conversation without interruption. I had been given prior notice that this would happen and I should not get alarmed. All very civilised. No disruption. My advice to the protesting students - Ashoka is a small community. You want a census - do it yourself. Don’t depend on the admin to do it

[geetanjali / গীতাঞ্জলি @geetswrites]

There's a fundamental misconception in this supposed entrepreneurial encouragement to just "do it yourself". Nobody who is protesting is "relying" on the administration to do anything; if they were reliant, they would have settled for the indefinite delays on the ADC and the EOC.