Akhil Joondeph

Dec 5, 2024 | wesleyanargus.com | Akhil Joondeph

It’s that time of year when we all start treating Wikipedia like a guilty pleasure. It looks something like this: final paper number three. You need that historical context from an easily decipherable source, and you’ve spent so many hours on Google Scholar already; you open Wikipedia, read a few pages with gluttony, and return to your paper with the information you needed.

Nov 21, 2024 | wesleyanargus.com | Akhil Joondeph

This morning was my breaking point; I got that last-straw email from the Office of Study Abroad asking me to be one of their “Study Abroad Ambassadors,” and I knew I had to write about it. I guess you could call this a follow-up to my last op-ed about Wesleyan’s most infamous Office, in which I wrote about the lack of support I received dealing with institutionalized homophobia while studying abroad in Ghana.

Sep 30, 2024 | rwcpulse.com | Ashwini Gangal |sheryl nonnenberg |Akhil Joondeph |Eleanor Raab

New York Times reporters discuss their book on Musk’s purchase of Twitter at Stanford on Oct. 1.

Sep 5, 2024 | wesleyanargus.com | Akhil Joondeph

About a week after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, I was sitting down to dinner with my Indian immigrant grandmother when she asked: “So…Kamala [Harris] really likes to talk about her Black identity more than her Indian side, it seems?” Implicit in this question was the idea that Harris was not Indian enough, that she was not a good, true representative of our community. “Why do you say that?” I responded. “Well, that is what my friends have been saying,” she answered.

Aug 22, 2024 | almanacnews.com | Sheryl Nonnenberg |Ashwini Gangal |Akhil Joondeph |Heather Zimmerman

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