ASP Yearbook - Class of 2020

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Around this time last year, most of us were wondering what Ashoka would feel like without some of our closest friends there with us. The last year has been a difficult journey for all of us, which is why it is important to celebrate us having made it through everything! With this yearbook, we’re looking back. Over our four years at Ashoka, we have accumulated so many moments and memories of this campus and of our friends and peers. Between August 2016 and May 2020, we have seen Ashoka change; old haunts replaced by newer, shinier ones, names evolving at such a rapid pace that keeping up with the lingo in itself became a task (‘SR’, anyone?). We have seen the campus take shape: we have seen a campus before ‘SH4’, and we have seen campus with a ‘SH5’. We remember the time when there was only an ‘Old Acad’ and a ‘New Acad’, and ‘AC01’ always meant the new one. We may be the last batch that saw Central Perk’s rise and fall, that remembers a campus pre-statues, and the fairy-lights aesthetic that we once associated with THC. As we say our final goodbyes to our beloved red brick walls, jaalis, and lawns, let’s celebrate our memories and moments of these 25 acres that have become such a huge part of our hearts. Inspired by Ricochet

In this circuit breaker of a year, please be kind to yourself, taking care to be attentive to how you are really doing. Don't flip for what everyone expects of you. I wish you authenticity, a self- reflexivity and make an honest appeal that you be able to take several small steps, one after another. Events in this year are taking the big leaps anyway. Resilence, endurance and zero- escapism, as the times hide their opportunities inside a testing time. Love, as we make our own luck in the days ahead. - Tisha Srivastav, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies, Good luck in the big and unknown world of the 2020s. You're more ready for it than any of us older generations would be. Looking forward to some of you becoming friends as well as ex-students - Alex Watson, Professor of Philosophy,

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Never miss a chance to share your thank you stories of \"back in our day, Ashoka -Saumya M. was...\" -(Anonymous) y'all be nice out there in the world ✌ -Charvi wTtBahchasaaiaaantlnallnncgl'nwthdkstohwyhyponeooalfoaduunim-yet2oSsrieantuo0fmaocrgu2tmohlsh0sarpiueteyim.eceeuvaYoshodetp,noyhilfAuiengoen'rSrayglgeiPo,nfrueldei!.vaIiItn\"tngoboimdybseuaSc-cranAoRiTvlrnisiioacevyehseabptcodshalakSioqtetabli,uhun-oteatrughWeenthwierdreaa/dofrsidlotlbhseiud\"arhorcktaioctays!ahe'sabWsotrefeseerni.n Thank you all for being a part of my journey, hope to C-hDeaekrssh. stay in touch! -Sindhoora We have seen it all and dealt with all and come out stronger. We did it together and I am glad to be a part of this batch. -Anoushka

It seemed difficult at times, but we made SS-NPil>adArSi P it! I'm so proud of us! It's also really heartwarming to realise how much sympathy and unity we all have. -Rutvi I did not interact with most of you, but I will still miss all of you -Manish. So I think this is how it is going to end, in a series of halves. A half of a semester, half- hearted classes, a half-done bedsheet in my room, half done goodbyes, half conversations, thinking we would complete them when we got back to Ashoka, when we got back home. To be honest, this is unfair. We were supposed to have our last meal at the Dhabha together, saying we will keep in touch. One last special chai, and after 3 ½ years, I still have no idea what is special about it. One last realization of how the Dhabha did not have tiles earlier and how we had the freedom to ask Kuldeep bhaiya to make whatever we wanted, and he would. The realization of how just the two-floored mess was enough for 3 batches and those empty seats were filled with conversations and not bags that reserved seats. When we knew everybody by name, and everyone knew something about everyone. To have that one person in the group who knows everything and all the others who were ready to start off the banter. That one room on every floor which welcomed all of us and seldom the people who were supposed to be there were there. The realization of how those coffee mugs which held our alcohol, also held us together. And that one friend who never wanted you to hit the bottom of the glass or life. Spending hours in the lawns talking about things that didn’t matter but felt important then. To go to see what’s for lunch, knowing I would end up at the Dhabha. Listening to our juniors facing the same problems that we did, and comforting them by saying it would be fine because it always is. Counting credits every month to see if would be graduating, because you did not want to be left alone without your friends. The journey is unexplainable, but what we share is similar. More importantly, they know that THC was outside, the tennis court was not ‘always’ there, chit chaat was our midnight savior and Sandeep bhaiya was always this warm and welcoming. Now, the 4-year-old set of orders will vanish, and people will fill them with theirs. Some might overlap and remind Sandeep and Kuldeep Ibhaiya of us, mUdGaitd1tr9ne.soTts,hbienubtearwtacechtmwawhdieitchmh ecmmhooasrntiegseodfayntohdue,I cross-access policy broke the library glass and burnt a wish all of you guys do too, because when it ends, wnohtenbebyuoautblheIatvoew. yiTlohluorssetdielggloroemdebiiysnseshaatlhnladt,ofpwreoyrmoeunis’itng people you will stay in touch, knowing you might supposed to be final but will end up being final, and those that were but surprisingly will not be. -Manish.In the end, it will not matter if you fucked up an assignment or didn’t get your course or were not selected in a club, what will matter is whether you made memories or not. You might go speechless for a minute when you swipe through an Instagram story and see the red brick walls, Sonipat skies or the main gate through which we came in fresh-faced, clean skin without the tattoos and the piercings we have now. Our hair was longer, less colored, probably cleaner and smelled less of smoke too. Our jeans were tighter, clothes a little more H&M. Our necks were a little less bruised and our hearts too. We were new and doe-eyed and excited to talk to everyone and we did do it, and it was beautiful. -Suyash

We've been through a whirlwind of a year together! From SH5 (the lack of) to a whole pandemic! -Mahima We were the OG 'fucking first years', be We did it! Though this may have been an proud you are unideal ending, I feel when we look back leaving a legacy of at this time, it won't seem so bad after fucking first years. all. Take care everyone and see you at grad! -Anonymous -Devika The batch of 2016 has been nothing less Y'all were great! than amazing. I couldn't have asked for -Venkatesh more <3 Anonymous. Thank you for making each year so special & fruitful. Each and every one of you are gems, and will pursue pioneering work. All the luck and love to you. -Zainab we started with donald trump as We took breaking the president and ended with covid19. we glass really are ready for anything. - (ceiling) quite literally, Anonymous didn't we? -Arush

I wanted to say \"oh, look how far we've come\" or something but that's kind of too optimistic? I will say we've been through so much nonsense and we still made it, in less than 5 pieces! Everything we've done this year has been an accomplishment in itself and I'm so proud of everyone for that. I'm so excited to see what all of you get up to! The ASP batch of 2020 is gonna do great things, I can feel it. -Anjali May the glimmer of Ashoka light up the world through us! -Sparsh We set the campus ablaze with fistfuls of light – we had it hard, but we did it and I couldn't be prouder of us. Y'all are some of the most intelligent, empathetic, humorous, passionate people I have come across. I may not know each one of you as well as I'd have liked to, but as a collective, I have come to love you. -Anonymous I might not have been around enough to get to know everyone, but please feel free to hit me up anytime I hope I had gotten to know more of you funny, loving, and regarding anything! We're homies :) -Aditya Singh beautiful people! -Anonymous Sometimes I forget there are more than 50 people in our batch. That's on me though. -Aditya Pantham

I'm so glad I'm in this batch, YOU CAN DO IT  - have you seen our juniors? Anonymous -Devanshi Don't fret because this crisis struck; take pride because you powered through. -Anonymous We've seen and been through everything that has and could ever happen at Ashoka. Be it the Pandemic, the annoying fucking first year, the stupid YIFs (not all of them obv) or stuff like SSP and a bunch of firsts like banjaara, Agneepath and a whole lot of things in between. We've partied on an entire floor, set a mattress on fire and carried the dogs from the dog statue across campus scaring people. We can probably manage our way around anything now ;) -Anonymous Sorry the lunch with Sabya never Part of the worldwide class of happened '20, one way or another we've -Anonymous survived a global pandemic, and have a hell of a story to tell at reunions- -Anonymous Got to know more of you this year than in the last three, it was a pleasure:)) -Kanchan

Been through it all-- Seems surreal that it had to end like this -Anonymous) Respect. -Halak It is absolutely beautiful how I've grown to like everyone by the end of these 4 years despite the occasional differences. This whole bunch will always be a special one! Also not so sincere apologies to everyone who's feet I've stepped on during atrium parties lol, can't wait to do it again :') -Vaishnavi After all it came to pass, but I am glad we got to learn and live together. To learn is as beautiful as to live. aaMbnlmweeewyswiaagtofsycore,sfhsllool.ydrorfeoIewiantynmtrhe'obsesuyeamoob.fftUubeHrcryeGoehoonrm1opmuw9eyanapo/ntetopuAorewlleSifssts,aooPte-nfsnle2oeudIar0rylwlyoelmcyfauah,taayongabmysudnu.binyltgAeywsoi!Idntaiisingowkhpsnttia,lthohlrhweete -Glory Grow, break all boundaries of human excellence. -Manya Want to build that trillion dollar corporation; please go ahead. Want to take down the govt; go ahead. Cycle across the subcontinent; hell yeah. -Hardik

I think everything isn't as black as white as we seem to think, especially after Ashoka, and we need to try to empathize with other viewpoints as well, if not always agree with them. -Karisma Many more conversations over dhaba tea are due. -Maotrika I've spent this last month zooming (into) different thesis presentations and feeling pure pride, regardless of how well we've known each other. We were the first first years, and we did shape Ashoka in some way (for better or for worse). We've all learnt and grown so much, and I'm so so proud. Hopefully, we're all leaving as better, kinder people. -Vidushi Rijuta Never thought There are other 350 stupid yet smart people who’ll put faith We're probably the in a new university. last batch in which -Prakhar everyone knows (of) everyone else. It was a pleasure, cheers! -Dhruv Agarwal

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ANJALI VENKATESH SUYASH Most likely to win an Most likely to become a Knows literally Emmy kickass professor everybody on campus Writer of the next Most likely to take over The Socialite superhit Netflix series Google Matchmaker-in-chief Most likely to be a Most likely to quit his Social Butterfly stand-up comic job at Google to start Most likely to get his social-tech venture married first MIHIKA SMRITI ROHAN AGIWAL SAHNI Most Employable Most likely to be a Most likely to be on Most likely to write a Forbes 30 under 30+3 poem polymath Most likely to be the Mr. Noida Hide-the-bin winner prime minister Most persuasive bartender VEEHA ABHISHEK SHAAN Most Mogu Mogus Most likely to be a CEO Sports department god consumed Gujarati Ghaplewaala Most likely to take the Draamebaaz world by storm Bakchod Entrepreneur#1

CHANDANA ADITYA ISHITA VIKRAM SINGHAL Campus Cook Most likely to own a yacht 'bro Bro BRO' Award Most likely to get a PhD Most likely to get in five years tenure Most likely to be wine aunty Most likely to be running her own publishing house SPARSH ABDUR PAYAL Most likely to join an evil Most business deals Most likely to write a corporation before the age of 21 bestseller Most likely to earn a Most annoying Most likely to return to million dollars Ashoka as a Professor Future Founder of Ashoka Most likely to be CEO ADHIRAJ ROHAN ZAINAB PODDAR Virgin Playboy Meme Queen VSP Legend Behra Bael (Buffalo) Most likely to solve a Most likely to stay single world tech problem Most likely to get married

ASHUMI HALAK NINAAD Most likely to head the Most likely to write a Most likely to make Psych Department at bestseller gourmet pasta Ashoka Future Booker prize Most likely to send the winner best 'Into the Unknown' voicenotes in times of trouble NIVEDITA PRANAV SATHYA SALAR SUNDERSAN The mighty finger Bomb sense of Style Most likely to go on Most likely to succeed midnight campus adventures Most chomu VIDUSHI ADIRAJ SMITI BHANDARI GILL Most likely to be The 'I-attend-both-DS- Most likely to spread a successful sections-for-extra- rumour knowledge' kinda nerd Scammer Boy award

DIVYAJ SAHEB PAUL Most likely to be in a Best sardar Nicest person in our controversy batch VIDUSHI ISHLEEN ANIRUDH RIJUTA SINGH Media Studies Rep with JAFA Most likely to make the a 5 year term world a little happier Most likely to destroy or take over Ubuntu Most likely to be the next Dr Phil AYUSH KARISMA SAUMYA LAHIRI KEDIA Ms. Scatterbrain Most likely to get Most likely to go to jail Most likely to get arrested for spreading married slanderous rumours Most likely to write a about people book Most Instagram handles Dadi Amma at 21

MOKSHA MANYA AVNEESH Most dramatic Best Batch slut Best Thesis dhabba/thc/dessert/ food partner JYOTI ROHIT SHEFALI Most sophisticated Mahesh Rangarajan 2.0 Most likely to become a aesthetic (with better email skills) YouTube star Most likely to be a university's chancellor HARSIT HARI AVA Most interesting sleep Best mridangam player Most likely to become a cycle rapper

SUSAN SHORYA UTKRISHTA Most likely to cure all Most meals at the Most nights spent in the mental illness dhaba library KARTIKA VAISHNAVI GARIMA Best dressed, all day, Best party partner Most likely to watch every day every single show on Netflix SAUMYA NAYANTARA AAYUSHI MALHOTRA KACHALIA Most likely to secretly Most likely to slap the save the world Most likely to get PM married first Most likely to become a stunning therapist

ASIKET ZAFAR KOPAL Most likely to lend half Commie minting money Best marketing his jacket on cold days in corporate campaigns that would be talked about on social media NILAY HIMALI DAKSH RBI Governor Most likely to delete the Future Policymaker email with her degree ANOUSHKA SHIVANI ADITYA KUMAR MOHAN Running a business empire Managing her own Art Chef at Taj Gallery

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I played BLOaTdminton a Sociology and Literature, all of the times in the - Prakhar and meeting my favourite winter sun in the grass, professors through these doing art or talking to Being a TA for three friends or eating snacks, courses. disciplines! all of them meld together -Sifan -Riya Singh in one collective gorgeous memory -Tanvi Chai with Jyotica Singh, at Found friends like family, Every thing Kirdaar gave me in the Dhaba, every Thursday and found the love of my my first 2 years! It became my life (this will be really cute safe space, my home within this after our 2:50s or really embarrassing 10 scary new place. I think every -Dikshita Venkatesh years later, either way it'll day of that Goa trip we took in my first year will always be a make me smile) . beautiful memory (despite all -Moksha the fuck ups lol) -Vaishnavi apftIaulhctcmtvso'eosopmhoarnerhmoeinuotfasle,amitenrn.tsdedig-townOsr,Re,toamnraotoouyeuhhlixosmnitnainaocsdTofgtniasodhitttItmneSuheoeirmdcacemsmaahieondmpnmdunnaosasiipstaycinssacuatpniysnebloil,.ilkcgylnmetee,h,hd,tyittsahosort,e The constant war with time Eating crappy mess lunch in when finishing up the lawns with my friends assignments before a almost every afternoon deadline. -Payal -Devrat Finding the best set of the time we were sitting Being able to represent friends one could ask for. behind the dhaba at 2am Ashoka in three different and saw a dude wander -Daksh from sh2 to the cricket sports :') field in the dark, and pass -Dhruv Agarwal out there -Ipshita

Mandakini Dubey as my InGteorinn-gaIstfhoiorintmaalyScfeoihnrgsftaerleevnecre. football academic advisor -Visvesha -Manish Can't pick one, but: once, in second year, my friends and I decided to watch a movie in the Old Academic Block at maybe 2 in the morning. While one person set up the movie, the rest of us went out into the corridor and saw some chairs with rolly-wheels lying around (inspired by photos of the Dorm Olympics roller-chair derby we'd seen in the 'Welcome to Ashoka' pack we'd received before coming here). We decided to each sit on the chairs and get wheeled at high speed across the corridor for about half an hour. I don't think I've laughed this much ever since. Also, during senior week last year, my friends and I were playing foosball in SH1 late in the night, when we felt like playing basketball. We went to the empty basketball court to shoot some hoops (none of us were particularly good at it), and then at 3 am, we went to the Dhaba for some nimbu paani. God knows when we fell asleep and when we woke up the next day, but it was such a wholesome night with some of my best friends, and one I will always remember. -Rutvi Doing the Roast in 2018; I realised I'm worth more BbcaraVaomanEnkyndpeRkedagualYm#eosirtdiyclnrf,ui-ahgoignSwnenaraWdwhotemdraIsnoiiLtalveellLtoiaitwcnImniNhttnnfthgGpeoiesixlorLetyBlthYigdh;einhtraoeadoetsjtwaawro1phhiorijysttetouethhabsn4tlpyedatweifhtaooarrle Becoming the Pol Sci than I believed I was Department's -Saumya Malhotra Valedictorian!!! -Zainab Rboelhliningd-dStohhweenfDatlhihaebhail.ls All the trips from college (Lucknow, Mcleodganj, Best thing to happen to me Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kolkata was Ashoka itself. and Manali) Best person to happen to me -Sindhoora at Ashoka was Zoey. My favourite memory at Ashoka was winning APL 4.0 and IIT Delhi 2019. -Sathya

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Having a full time job in May -Hardik I became a lot more comfortable in being by myself and it is one of the most beautiful things I'm taking back from ASP -Vaishnavi 4th year allowed me to find a solace it's the same, except worse with new people. Aisha, Dikshita and -Anuj Jyotica. No matter how hard or how lonely it got sometimes, and how stressful the whole year has been. Finding a safe space and comfort not only in our conversations but also in the silences, is something I will always hold close to me. -Ananya Sood ALL MY BEST FRIENDS Becoming better friends with other people in (except 1) LEFT ME!! my batch -Manya -Avneesh

No Kalyani or Yamini :'( -Pallavi My friend group became so much smaller :( -Dhruv Agarwal The fourth year was possibly the Friends, Courses, Time most difficult year of my life mentally spent in the library, etc emotionally physically, but I made it through. I showed up. And I'm very etc -Shorya proud of myself for that. The 3rd year was slightly more relaxed and full of song and dance and cooking. -Maitrika My dear faraway love I think I was personally tested in the 4th -Kanchan year in ways I had never been before and the discomfort, confusion and heartbreak taught me a lot about how to be. -Halak

Asking for support from my friends -Venkatesh My confidence of getting into grad school -Nivedita Salar I spent much more time talking to people I usually who came up with these wouldn't this year--I guess it was a consequence questions? of the batch becoming smaller, and friends not -Glory being at Ashoka anymore. There had always been seniors we looked up to and asked for advice, but it was startling to realise that we /were/ 'the' seniors now. There were so many ways in which I felt we were in positions of mentoring and guidance. Unlike last year, this year felt a lot more geared towards creating a legacy, at having an impact on someone's life at Ashoka. -Kopal The Goa trip finally happened As a batch, we came a lot closer. This year :') was far more stressful, difficult, confusing for me as compared to my first 3 years at -Shivani Kumar Ashoka. -Abhishek

Felt a lot easier to keep track of people since most people left. -Aditya Pantham The sense of freedom and academic fulfillment, made possible by taking non-major courses. -Devrat Covid :p. 200 people is the biggest NGL I really tried to study difference. Batch of 2019 < ASP after my 3rd year and not batch of 2020, in the simplest just pass courses. terms. -Pranav A S -Prakhar I found my self. I didn't have a clique in the fourth year -Sifan but I made so many more friends n just got closer to our batch -Devanshi

The fourth year made me unimaginably happy. -Riya Singh 4th year was a lot more hectic but I was a lot more confident by the 4th year -Kanan I'm so happy about how much closer I am to Transcended from being an the ASPs now, especially the girls! No RA to a CADI member. -Daksh bonding experience like living all alone in a building that is still 'build-ing'. All those random snack gangs and pantry conversations have made me so happy. I somehow feel like I was so at home in SH-5 it was insane. This past year has been beyond stressful but having so many strong women (and men, you aren't all bad) to go back to when things get shitty has meant the world to me. -Anjali I care less Being in Ashoka finally brought me more -Abdur happiness and comfort than chaos. I smiled easier. -Tanvi G. S.

The missing friends. -Sparsh How hard I worked - fourth year moksha had mad work ethic -Moksha My roommate of 3 years graduated and The goa trip finally happened wasn't there with me during ASP; I -Harish wasn't in touch with a close friend of mine in our 3rd year, but I had him back in my life in the 4th; Fckin thesis and graduate school applications -Ishita Singhal More time to myself The crumbling building that we know as -Sindhoora SH5: each trip in the elevator was a dance with death. -Vasudha

I cried after my final submissions, not during them -Arush Got the chance to take up my own projects and do some philosophy and psychology courses -Aditya Singh I made so many new friends and I did My attendance is now much better academically during my down to zero fourth year. Also, my mental health was -Niladri better than it had ever been during my time as an undergraduate at Ashoka (at least until COVID struck). All of us also became a lot closer to each other than we had been for 3 years because there weren't as many of us left this year, which was nice. -Rutvi In the fourth year I cooked In my 4th year, I became friends with every week! people from my batch that I never thought I -Zainab would, and it made all the difference :) I also believe that 4th year brought our batch closer together, especially the SH5 girls because of the ordeals we had to face as we moved into an (at that time), half- constructed dorm! -Devika