Ashoka Reflections_MARCH 2024

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This year’s Founders' Day was special. Ashoka

University achieved a historic milestone—10

successful years. Spread over two days, the

event was attended by founders and others who

have played an important role in building this

institution

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Day 1 in Delhi began with updates from the University leadership, with Chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee

and Vice-Chancellor Somak Raychaudhury sharing anecdotes from their time at the University. Pramath Raj

Sinha, Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Ashoka University, took the audience on a memorable journey—from

the University’s inception to date.

“Ashoka started with 58 Young India Fellows in 2011. We will be recruiting our 14th batch of fellows this year.

Our undergraduate programme started with 126 students, growing six times to 760+ students last year. With

close to 2,500 undergraduate alumni, 2,200 YIF alumni, and the current cohort of 3,000 students on campus,

Ashoka has so far touched the lives of more than 8,000 students,” Pramath shared.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee reminisced, “When Pramath offered me to come on board a decade ago, it was the

last thing I really expected anybody to offer me. This is a very emotional moment for me, it has been 10

years.”

The University is set on the expansion of its campus to cover 100 acres, four times its current size, which will

include a Science Park, a Makerspace Lab, the Trivedi School of Biosciences and various centres that will

encourage the sciences to talk to each other.

The day also marked the launch of the Harish and Bina Shah School of Humanities. The School will offer

majors, minors and double interdisciplinary majors in History, English, Philosophy, Media Studies, Creative

Writing, Visual and Performing Arts and various Languages, within and with other Ashoka Schools. The School

will also house Centres of Excellence including writing and communication, historical archaeology, translation

and digital humanities.

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