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=== Asok ===
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A young intern, Asok works very hard but does not always get proper recognition. He is intensely intelligent but naive about corporate life; the shattering of his optimistic illusions becomes frequent comic fodder. He is [[Indian people|Indian]] and graduated from the [[Indian Institutes of Technology]] (IIT). The other workers, especially the Boss, often unwittingly trample on his cultural beliefs. On the occasions when Asok mentions this, he is normally ignored. His test scores (a perfect 1600 on the old [[SAT]]) and his [[IQ]] of 240 show that he is the smartest member of the engineering team. Nonetheless, he is often called upon by the Boss to do odd jobs, and in meetings his ideas are usually left hanging. He is also seen regularly at the lunch table with Wally and Dilbert, experiencing jarring realizations of the nature of corporate life. There are a few jokes about his psychic powers, which he learned at the IIT. Yet despite his intelligence, ethics, and mystical powers, Asok sometimes takes advice from Wally in the arts of laziness, and from Dilbert in surviving the office. As of February 7, 2014, Asok is officially gay, which never affects any storylines but merely commemorates a decision by the [[Supreme Court of India|Indian Supreme Court]] to uphold a British-era anti-gay law,<ref name="SHYAMANTHA">{{cite news|last=Shyamantha|first=Asokan|title=India's Supreme Court turns the clock back with gay sex ban|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-rights-gay-idUSBRE9BA05620131211|access-date=December 11, 2013|newspaper=[[Reuters]]|date=December 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2014-02-07/ |title = Dilbert Comic Strip on 2014-02-07 &#124; Dilbert by Scott Adams}}</ref> a decision which was overturned on September 6, 2018.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/09/indias-supreme-court-overturns-sodomy-ban-landmark-ruling/ |title = India's Supreme Court overturns sodomy ban in a landmark ruling|date = September 6, 2018}}</ref>