Centre for Writing and Communication (CWC)

Announcing our 2026 Summer School, online and open to all! Apply here: apply.ashoka.edu.in/cwccourse.aspx Full catalogue: drive.google.com/file/d/1-SXunH… Limited seats. Register soon!

Snapshots from CWC’s Annual Conference at IIC, New Delhi (9–10 April 2026). Panel: “Reading Beyond Walls, Learning Beyond Power.”

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Our favourite films and series that get mental health support right. (1/2)

Meet the speakers of our upcoming Education & English (E&E) Online Seminar Series. Intended as intensive dialogues, these sessions will be a short overview of a pre-assigned reading/activity by the speaker, followed by an open floor discussion. Stay tuned for updates! ✨✨✨

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Mother’s Day landing in Mental Health Awareness Month compels us to view mothers as individuals in their own right. These recommendations disrupt the fantasy of perfect motherhood. (1/2)

Join us next Sunday for an Instagram Live session with Shardha Rajam! We will discuss multi-species justice in policy, language, media and everyday practice. instagram.com/cwc_ashokauniv…

As part of the CWC Summer School, and in collaboration with the Ashoka Centre for Translation, we're delighted to host a keynote lecture by Arunava Sinha titled “The Myth of Standardised English” #opentoall Registration link: tr.ee/H8DxLMPDwN

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On this World Press Freedom Day, we highlight 8 films and series that feature trailblazing journalist. #worldpressfreedomday (1/2)

May is Mental Health Awareness month, and we are marking it our way. Watch this space as we trace how mental health finds depiction across genres and ways of telling.

Chakrabarty (2009) names the real rupture: the climate crisis is a crisis in how we think. Nature no longer waits in the wings of history. Freedom runs on carbon. We have become a species whose collective force exceeds our capacity for felt experience. #Anthropocene

Chakrabarty (2009) names the real rupture: the climate crisis is a crisis in how we think. Nature no longer waits in the wings of history. Freedom runs on carbon. We have become a species whose collective force exceeds our capacity for felt experience. #Anthropocene

Summer school deadline extended to May 4! Check out the details and apply here: apply.ashoka.edu.in/cwccourse.aspx Please reach out to cwc@ashoka.edu.in with any queries.

Apply for our Summer School "(Re)reading Stories of Change: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Policy Briefs" Reflexively engage with stories of change shared in #policybriefs in #internationaldevelopment as an aesthetic, social and political exercise Register: apply.ashoka.edu.in/cwccourse.aspx

Join our 3-day online summer school on “Investigating True Crime: Allure, Ethics & Authenticity”. Explore true crime genre across media and learn to craft three types of written responses. Register: apply.ashoka.edu.in/cwccourse.aspx

Reading recommendations from CWC on World Earth Day. #earthday #worldearthday #readingrecommendations #22april

April 1955. Bandung. Twenty-nine nations show up and refuse to pick a side—no Washington, no Moscow. Apartheid gets named and rejected, outright. Bandung also sparked a 34-year arc of writing, art, and film across the Indian Ocean, before “Global South” entered common use.

Applications are now open for our 5-day Summer School for PhD scholars. Sessions are designed to introduce and support the development of critical thinking, reading, and writing skills essential for research. Registration link: tr.ee/0XctnG9Aow Limited seats.