Published in the Edict on Mar 29, 2023. Okay, I’ve tried–but there is no way of saying this without sounding at least mildly, if not annoyingly, self-righteous. Maybe we should hold off accusations of empty-handed activism that have so often been used to dismiss conversations about change at this University. It is simply implausible that (somehow) Ashoka has amoral psychopaths in wholesale just roaming about not caring–in fact, given what they teach us here; not caring must

Published on OpenAxis on Apr 29, 2022. However unnerving the feeling of being surveilled is, collecting information about our interactions with the government has the potential to be immensely fruitful for journalists, researchers and the public. Whenever we fill out a government form or get our vaccinations done through public hospitals, the records we leave with them can be harnessed by those looking at it to trace back that interaction. Not only does this ensure transpare

Published on OpenAxis on Apr 11, 2022. Despite being South Asia’s oldest democracy, having constituted a universal franchise as early as 1931, the island nation of Sri Lanka is far from donning the hat of a stable one and the path toward democratic prosperity remains murky. The country has seen a bloody civil war between the minority separatist Tamil Hindu community and the ruling Sinhala Buddhist majority from 1983 to 2009. Post-war, its polity has been turning the page fo