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True interdisciplinary education must have depth before breadth

November 14, 2025 1:20 pm

Once a student or researcher has internalised the logic of one field, they are better equipped to see parallels, contradictions, and bridges to others. The proper sequence is disciplinary depth first, interdisciplinary exploration next, and integration last

Operation Sindoor posts: SC quashes FIR against Ashoka University professor; bars magistrate from acting on second complaint

August 25, 2025 3:19 pm

Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad was arrested on May 18 after two FIRs were registered over his posts on Operation Sindoor which allegedly disparaged women officers in the Indian Armed Forces.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani’s letter to the Ashoka community regarding Professor Mahmudabad asks the wrong questions

Yogendra Yadav writes: Ashoka University and illiberal Liberal Arts

June 10, 2025 10:21 pm

Sanjeev Bikhchandani’s letter to the Ashoka community regarding Professor Mahmudabad asks the wrong questions

Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Supreme Court India, Operation Sindoor, Ali Khan Mahmudabad bail,

SC refuses to relax bail conditions imposed on Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad

May 28, 2025 7:16 pm

The bench of Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta also stated that the interim protection from arrest granted to Ali Khan Mahmudabad will continue till further orders.

Ali Khan Mahmudabad — an arrest and its sub-stories

May 28, 2025 12:10 pm

Not everything about the wrongful arrest of the academic is as it seems to be

Ashoka University student deaths: NCPCR seeks report from top cop, govt three months on

May 27, 2025 10:25 am

Officials at Ashoka University declined to comment on the matter when contacted

Ashoka University Associate Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad

Sonipat police chief-led SIT to probe social media posts by Ashoka University Professor

May 23, 2025 2:11 am

Ali Khan Mahmudabad released from judicial custody day after SC granted him bail

Ashoka University expresses relief after SC grants interim bail to professor; national rights panel takes suo motu cognizance of report

May 21, 2025 8:18 pm

Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Ashoka University's head of the Department of Political Science, was arrested over his comments on Operation Sindoor.

Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad was arrested on May 18.

Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad has moral ambition and courage. Ashoka University must show some too

May 25, 2025 11:31 am

It is difficult to figure out exactly why Ashoka University acts in the way that it does. Can it be that when it speaks of an education in the liberal arts, it has in mind merely a transfer of the protocols and materials in use in American colleges without any commitment to freedom of expression?

SC grants interim bail to Ashoka University Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, calls his post on Op Sindoor ‘dog whistling’

May 22, 2025 2:50 am

Ali Khan Mahmudabad Ashoka University Professor Bail News: The Haryana Police arrested Ashoka University Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad on May 18 for his social media post on Operation Sindoor that allegedly disparaged women officers in the Indian armed forces.