Convocation Brochure 2022, Ashoka University

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Convocation Class of 2022

2nd July, 2022

About the Convocation

The Convocation Ceremony for the Young India Fellowship (Postgraduate Diploma in Liberal Studies) Class of 2022, is a celebration of the academic and nonacademic achievements of Fellows. This day indicates that those collecting their diplomas have completed their graduation requirements, and also marks the end of their year-long engagement with the multi-disciplinary, experiential and multi-dimensional programme.

Hereafter, Fellows commence their life-long journeys as alumni of Ashoka University, while belonging to a global and diverse community of socially-conscious leaders and changemakers.

Convocation Programme

2nd July, 2022 | 3.30 pm to 6.00 pm

The Academic Procession Arrives

Welcome Address by the Chancellor

Prof. Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Opening Address by the Vice Chancellor

Prof. Malabika Sarkar

Keynote Address by the Distinguished Chief Guest

Prof. K. VijayRaghavan

Former Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

Dean’s Report on the Academic Year

Aniha Brar

Awarding of Diplomas and Special Awards

The Conferment and University Oath

Film by Fellows

Vote of Thanks by the Pro Vice Chancellor

Eshwara Venkatesam

National Anthem

The Academic Procession Departs

High Tea

Distinguished Chief Guest of the YIF Convocation Ceremony

Prof. K. VijayRaghavan

K. VijayRaghavan is a distinguished professor in the field of developmental genetics. He is the former Director, National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), an institution that he was instrumental in setting up. He is also the former Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, a role that he moved on from in April, 2022.

VijayRaghavan graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in 1975 and completed a Master’s in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1977. He was recognised as a Distinguished Alumnus by IIT Kanpur in 2003. He undertook doctoral research from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1983, in the field of molecular biology. During his postdoctoral work from 1984 to 1988, he was a Research Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.

Among his many laurels, VijayRaghavan is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1998) and the Infosys Prize in the Life Sciences (2009). He is a Fellow of The Indian National Science Academy (1999), the World Academy of Sciences (2010), the Royal Society (2012) and the American Philosophical Society (2022). He was conferred the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, on 26 January 2013. In 2014, he was elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Convocation Traditions

The Processional Music – “Full Circle”

“Full Circle” reflects the various stages in the journey that Fellows undertake at the Young India Fellowship. Beginning with confusion, moving on to acceptance and even ennui, and finally ending at selfreflection, this journey is a metaphor for life and how it comes full circle. The year, and this piece, ends on a note of individual growth and greater self-awareness. This piece was composed collectively by several musicians of the YIF Class of 2018, and has been played during the academic processions of all YIF convocation ceremonies ever since.

The Embroidered Graduation Robes

Every graduating Fellow since the YIF’s inception has worn the green and red embroidered robes as a marker of tradition. The embroidery was conceived of by Tulasi Chaudhary from the Founding Class of 2012, to represent the plurality of the world in which we live, where Fellows work to build a better tomorrow. The embroidery is a symbol of the ties of continuity and community across all cohorts, and best represents its spirit - exuberant, progressive, dialogue-oriented, sophisticated and international, while being rooted to its Indian context.

The University Oath

The ancient Indian king after whom this University is named asked the question: What is Dhamma?

He answered: It is having few faults and many good deeds; mercy, charity, truthfulness and integrity.

I commit myself to these values, and through them, move from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light and from death to immortality.

DIPLOMA AWARDEES

Diploma Awardees

Aaditya Yogesh Yawalkar

Aaliyah Ali Khan

Aanchal Jain

Aarushi Saini

Abhijit Victor Gaba

Adithya S. Menon

Aditya Mukherjee Behera

Adwitia Dey

Adwityaa Jha

Aindrila Sinha

Akanksha Nathany

Akshita Iyer

Alankrita Mishra

Ali Al Jamal

Amandeep Singh Bamrah

Amartya Raj

Amit

Amitoj Singh Kalsi

Amrita K.

Ananya Jain

Ananya Srivastava

Anasuith P. Pridhvish

Anirudh G. Iyer

Ankit Sahu

Annet Mary Thankachan

Annly Anna Kurian

Anukul Tripathi

This list is provisional as on 28 June 2022

Apala Mandal

Apurva Aggarwal

Aradhana Varma

Archana Rath

Arindam Kabir

Arjun Gupta

Arnaz Shaik

Asambhava Shubha

Ashok Birendra Yadav

Asmita Banerjee

Asmita Sethi

Ayush Rawat

Ayushi Ghai

Baidehi Ghosh

Bartika Banerjee

Bhavana Paladi

Bhavika Goel

Bhuvaneshwari Ramaswamy

Chhavi Kumar

Deepakshi Arora

Deepika D. V. S. S. D.

Devica Sud

Devika Mahapatra

Dibyangee Saha

Dipsikha Mukhopadhyay

Divya Baweja

Drishti J. Verma

Driti Girrish Wadwa

Emirilda Thabah

Eureka Selvaraj

Gautam Gambhir

Gayatri Ahuja

Geetha Rukmini Thatikonda

Gyan Bhaskar Maithani

Hannan Nabi

Harika Srinivasan

Hari Varshini Murugesan

Harsha Bharat Vade

Harshita Sharma

Hiteshree Das

Honey Madhusudan Gairola

Isha Sachin Samant

Jamuna N.

Jasmin Tripathy

Jhanvi Shah

This list is provisional as on 28 June 2022

Kaavya Kumar

Kalyani Kholia

Kanchi Malhotra

Kanishk Munshi

Kashvi Juneja

Katha Ray

Kewal Singh

Komal Bhadana

Kritika Nigam

Lakshita Arora

Lasya Kalidindi

Lekha Donur

Malavika Menon

Mallika Anand

Manasi Rathore

Manaswini N. C.

Mishie Singhal

Mobasher Alam

Mruganayani Basavaraj Nagur

Mruthyunjay Rao Khumbumattu

Muskaan Gahlawat

Muskan Garg

DIPLOMA
AWARDEES

DIPLOMA AWARDEES

Nabiha Naaz

Naeem Mohammed Panakat

Namya Meshram

Nandana Bhattacharjee

Nandini Jha

Neha Gupta

Neha Mishra

Neil Khopkar

Nihaarika Singh

Niharika Suresh

Nikita Bharat Sachanandani

Nikita Narendra Aage

Nona Uppal

Padma Rigzin

Pallab Kumar Doley

Paridhi Kapil

Peeyush Nepal

Poorvi Gupta

Pragya Pal

Pranav Annur

Pratyush Bhanja

Pulkit Goyal

Radhika Chhabra

Raunak Chaudhury

Revathy K. J.

Ridhi Kapoor

Rishika Rastogi

Rishika Saria

Riya Ramakant Baheti

Riya Sachin Arolkar

Rose Chaudhary

Sabahat

Sahana Nag H. N.

Sahil Mittal

Sahil Philip

Sai Harshita Vaddadi

Sai Venkat Nihith Bodepudi

Saloni Dhadwal

Saman Waheed

Samyuktha Vibhu

Saniya Aniruddha Deshpande

Sara Rathore

Sarandeep Singh Khurana

Sathiyan S.

Sehar Abdullah

Sejal Pradeep Chandrafari

Shabdita Tiwari

Shaifali Singh

Shankar Keshav Prasad

Sharon Joslin C.

Shashank B. S.

Shefali Mehra

Shiv Aditya Kashyap

Shiva Rajora

Shivangi Shanker K.

Shivani Chhabra

Shivanshi Khanna

This list is provisional as on 28 June 2022

Shome Kabir Advani

Shreya D.

Shruti Shaileshbhai Palan

Shubham Rathore

Siddarth M.

Siddharth Das

Sivakami Prasanna

Sloka Chandra Kasapuram

Sohom Roy

Soumil Gupta

Sreethi Musunuru

Srishti Agrawal

Steven Thomas

Subhash Bhambhu

Sujay Sunil Aiyer

Surabhi Shirish Kulkarni

Swarnima Pathak

Swati Viswajit

Swayanka Sahoo

Sweja Ramachandran

Tabish Haider Gazi

Tanushree

Tarush Rajesh Dhume

Thareek Ahmed

Udayan Singh

Vagisha Bhatia

Vaibhavi Prashanth

Vaishnavi Gupta

Varun Santosh Dani

Varun Srikanth

Vibhor Batra

Vighnesh P.

Vishesh Wadhwa

Vishwajeet Mishra

Vrinda Goel

Vrushali Mohan Ghatpande

Wangchok Namgail

Yash Manish Annadate

Yashika Mandhana

Yokitha Sivasamy

Yusra Khan

Zubin Hemant Parikh

DIPLOMA AWARDEES
This list is provisional as on 28 June 2022
Photo by Rakesh Meitei

Special Awards at the YIF Convocation Ceremony

There are four kinds of special awards given to Fellows at the time of graduation. All but the Scholar Award are nomination-based, where the strength of a nomination matters more than the number of nominations received.

The Torchbearer Award

Given to the Fellow(s) who best embodies/ embody the spirit and ideals of the YIF, as seen by their conduct in all aspects of academic and extra-curricular life at the YIF.

Awardee: Shankar Keshav Prasad

The Spirit Award

Given to the Fellow(s) who has/have gone beyond the call of duty to contribute to different aspects of life at the YIF, through their creativity, energy and unrelenting pursuit to improve the experience of all involved in the programme.

Awardees: Anirudh G. Iyer and Shivanshi Khanna

The Scholar Award

Given to the Fellow(s) who has/have achieved the highest academic rank in the class and shown exceptional commitment to learning.

Awardee: Apala Mandal

This list is provisional as on 28 June 2022

Award for Outstanding Performance in the Experiential Learning Module

Given to the team(s) of Fellows which has/have overcome challenges and exceeded client expectations to achieve extraordinary results in their project work.

Awardees:

ELM Team 7 | Ananya Srivastava, Apala

Mandal, Nihaarika Singh, Saman Waheed and Sivakami Prasanna

Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Ashoka University | Anthology of Trans Narratives

ELM Team 15 | Hari Varshini Murugesan, Katha Ray, Riya Ramkant Baheti, Vaishnavi Gupta and Wangchok Namgail Kaivalya Education Foundation | Content Design and Development for 21st CC Education Leadership

SPECIAL
AWARDS
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FACULTY AND COURSES

Faculty and Courses

A.K. Shivakumar

Economics and Public Policy: An Introduction to Applied Microeconomics

Ananth Padmanabhan

Law and Policy in India: Foundations and Transitions

Anirban Datta

Cinema and Communication: Through the Practitioner’s Gaze

Anuj Bhuwania

Federalism in India

Anunaya Chaubey

Art Appreciation

Arun Kumar Singh

Deconstructing Select Indian Foreign Policy Challenges and Responses: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Aseem Shrivastava

Introduction to Ecosophy

Bhismadev Chakrabarti

Science of Emotions and Empathy: A Toolkit of Concepts and Techniques

Debal Deb

Ecological Economics

Debayan Gupta

The New Geography of the Information Age

Deepak Mehta

Crowds of Protest, Crowds of Occupation

Dev Tayde Grassroots Community Service

Dilip Simeon

Totalitarian Century? / The Ideology Seminar

Dwight L. Jaggard

Foundations of Leadership

Gilles Verniers

Who Governs India?

Jonathan Gil Harris

Shakespeare and the World

K. P. Krishnan

An Overview of Public Policy and Regulation in India with Indian Finance as a Case Study

Kenwyn Smith

Leadership and Group Dynamics

Madhavi Menon

Shakespeare and the World

Malabika Sarkar

John Keats, Poetry and Intensity

Meenu Gaur

Visual Storytelling and Cinematic Techniques

Mekhala Krishnamurthy

Anthropology Today

Narendra Jadhav

Issues in Social Democracy and Social Justice in India

Neilesh Bose

Religion and Secularism in Global Perspective

Omkar Goswami

India’s Economy: Past, Present and Near Future

Pooja Haldea

Applied Behaviour Science: From Theory to Practice

Pramath Raj Sinha

Building Habits, Careers and Institutions

Purushottam Agrawal

Kabir: The Poet of Vernacular Modernity

Ranjan Banerjee

Design Thinking and Innovation

Ritwik Agrawal

Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

JM Financial Lectures on Reason and the Making of Modern India

Sanjay Kathuria

Trade, Trust and Peace in South Asia

Santosh Venkatesh

Problem Solving and Statistical Thinking in Modern Life

Shahid Jameel

Understanding Pandemics

Stephanie Balme

STI as Power: The Case of China

Surinder Singh Jodhka

Indian Society: Imaginations, Structures and Identities

Urvashi Butalia

Women, Society and Changing India

FACULTY AND COURSES

Experiential Learning Module (ELM)

Supervising Faculty

Srikant Sastri

Client Organisations

Aaroogya International Breakthrough

Bunavat Retail Pvt. Ltd.

Carnegie India

Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona

Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Ashoka University

Creative Dignity

Creya Learning and Research Pvt. Ltd.

eGov Foundation

Environment Conservation Society (SwitchON Foundation)

IIM Calcutta Innovation Park Image Foundry

Indian School of Development Management

Kaivalya Education Foundation

LEAD (IFMR) at Krea University

LetsEndorse Development Pvt. Ltd.

Loopworm

MADIEE Games

National Institute of Urban Affairs

Nymble Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Office of Lok Sabha MP Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu

Pratham Education Foundation

Pravda Media Foundation

Pravesh Consulting

Safe in India Foundation

Spinning Wheel Leadership Foundation

STENUM Asia

Tata Steel Adventure Foundation

Teach For India

The/Nudge Foundation

TiE Delhi-NCR

TARA Foundation

ZeroPlast Labs

ELM FACULTY
AND CLIENTS

Mentors

Abhijit Dasgupta

Aditya Yadav

Amir Ullah Khan

Anchal Kakkar

Andrew Hoffland

Anil Nair

Ankur Warikoo

Anoop Prakash

Anunaya Chaubey

Aparna Sanyal

Arjun Uppal

Ashutosh Chadha

Chandra Kant

Deepti Beri

Dev Tayde

Dharmesh Makwana

Dhiraj Nayyar

Dhruv Agarwala

Estelle Metayer

Gaurav Sangtani

Gautam Sen

Gilles Verniers

Gitanjali Gandhiok

Giti Chandra

Jaya Hangal

Johannes Burgers

Krishan Dhawan

Madhavi Menon

Maloo Natarajan

Mandar Vaidya

Meenakshi Ganguly

Melanie Bowen

Nitin Mathur

Piyush Mehra

Rahul Ram

Rahul Shidhaye

Raja Natarajan

Rajen Makhijani

Rakesh Godhwani

Ravi Bhoothalingam

Ravi Singh

Ravi Sreedharan

RCM Reddy

Rizio Yohannan

Ruchir Malik

Saikat Majumdar

Sameer Shisodia

Sameer Mohan Gaokar

Samir Kuckreja

Sanjay Kukreja

Sanjeev Aggarwal

Satyam Vyas

Savyasaachi

Sheena Gandhi

Shilpa Sharma

Smarinita Shetty

Sonali Jha Chatterjee

Sudheendra Hangal

Suman Srivastava

Sushil Jhangiani

Tejpavan Gandhok

Uma Chakravarti

Unny Radhakrishnan

Upinder Singh

Vinati Kastia

Vivek Bhargava

MENTORS

About the Young India Fellowship

The Young India Fellowship (YIF) is a one year multidisciplinary postgraduate diploma programme in Liberal Studies. Started in 2011 as the precursor to and flagship programme of Ashoka University, the YIF brings together a group of bright young individuals who show exceptional intellectual ability and leadership potential, and trains them to become socially-conscious leaders and changemakers for the 21st century.

The YIF exposes them to a diverse set of subjects and perspectives, delivered by some of the finest teachers and practitioners from India and around the world. The aim is to help Fellows become wellrounded individuals who are able to think critically from multiple perspectives, communicate effectively and become leaders with a commitment to public service. Individuals from all academic, professional, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds are welcome to the YIF – and are mentored into reaching their full potential.

Photo by Utkarsh Budholiya

About Ashoka University

Ashoka University is a pioneer in its focus on multidisciplinary education and research at par with the best in the world. It is named after Emperor Ashoka (c. 304 – 232 BC) who represents India’s highest values and ideals.

Drawing from Emperor Ashoka’s life of learning and transformation, Ashoka University provides a holistic education that is liberal, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary, offering a diverse and inclusive space for its students to think deeply and critically, learn across disciplinary boundaries, express themselves creatively, and communicate with meaning to cause impact and change.

Students are encouraged to explore ideas, engage in research, and focus on values and ideals of the highest order to experience selftransformation within the duration of their education and beyond. The 2500 plus students on campus, drawn from 30 states and over 243 cities in India and 27 other countries, receive a world-class interdisciplinary education through undergraduate and postgraduate programmes taught by internationally renowned faculty.

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