In Solidarity Against JNU Administration's 'Witch-Hunt Against Dissenting Voices'

New Delhi: With no resolution in sight for the ongoing crisis at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the situation is becoming more and more grave by the day. The constant attacks on the centre of higher education as the crisis continues to manifest have created a toxic environment where everything has come to a standstill.

Concerned over the developments, a group of students, teachers, activists, artists, filmmakers and concerned individuals have written a statement in solidarity which urges JNU vice chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar and the JNU administration "to revisit the history of democratisation of universities and the role that the universities played in the struggle against hegemonic forces".

Read the full statement below:

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We the undersigned strongly condemn the undemocratic and utterly high-handed attitude exhibited by the current administration and the vice chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), over the last few weeks. As our friends and colleagues from the university brave police brutality and march to make their demands heard, taking forward the ongoing resistance against the attack on the university and higher education in India, we would like to state, as students, teachers, activists, artists, filmmakers, and concerned individuals, some of us as ex-students of JNU, that we stand with them.

We are shocked and appalled to see the administration’s horrifying attempts to normalise gender violence on the university campus. One among several deeply troubling instances of the failure of the newly instituted Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) is the persistent shielding by the JNU administration of Atul Johri of the Life Sciences Department, accused in cases of serial sexual harassment. The continuing refusal to suspend him, and the arbitrary questioning of the survivors over the past few days is condemnable. This deliberate breach of fundamental rights, as enshrined in the Indian constitution and the Vishakha guidelines, in our view constitutes a gross violation of what gender justice in a public university should stand for.

This administration has taken a resolute stand against gender justice, with its prior dissolution of the long-established and hard-won Gender Sensitisation Committee against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH), unilaterally instituting in its place an Internal Complaints Committee, the composition of which gives the administration undue influence over due process. We are distressed by what the implications of this effective failure of the ICC are for women students, as they inhabit the university space, and join our voices with them in their fight to live and study without fear.

In this regard, we know JNU students are not alone as there have been intense countrywide protests on university campuses in the recent past against a pattern of normalisation of harassment and gender discrimination as everyday affair. Student led movements at NIFT, Kannur, at the Banaras Hindu University, the Delhi University, the Aligarh Muslim University gather force and reveal the enduring strength of the collective voice, as well as the limits of the claimed shift in public discourse after the 2012 gang rape of Nirbhaya.

The JNU administration’s high-handedness has been on habitual display in its unilateral decision-making. It has shown a complete disregard for reservation policies in JNU admission procedures, increasing the weight of the viva voce component from 30% to a 100%, without taking into account existing debates among students and teachers regarding the desirability of reducing viva marks from 30 percent of the admission procedure. The implementation of drastic seat cuts at the M.Phil/Ph.D level, the loss of deprivation points for students from disadvantaged social backgrounds and regions, the dissolution of the GSCASH, the raising of existing mess fees by 100% come together to reveal the clear and powerful agenda of the administration and country’s ruling dispensation to dismantle the existing substantive autonomy of universities in favour of an ‘autonomy’ articulated through the market.

It is here that JNU students and teachers join the struggle in colleges and universities around the country, from Hyderabad Central University to the Film and Television Institute, Pune; Punjab University to the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, against the undoing of the potentiality of the university as a space in which students from different backgrounds can articulate a multiplicity of political futures. For instance, students at all four campuses of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) have been on strike since the TISS administration’s withdrawal of aid to students from marginalised communities who were eligible for the Government of India post-matric Scholarship scheme.

In response to striking students the TISS administration has adopted silencing tactics not unlike the JNU administration, issuing legal notices to striking students, not allowing students to enter hostels if fees remain unpaid, among others. At the Assam Women’s University, students are part of ongoing protests against the state government’s proposal to downgrade the university, the only women’s university in Assam, to a technical institute. They are also demanding the appointment of a permanent vice chancellor, permanent faculty members and staff, as well as other necessary infrastructure, and have the support of student organisations from across the state  of Assam.

As these policies make it increasingly difficult for those coming from socially disadvantaged backgrounds to access higher education, push those already pursuing higher education into impossible often deathly precarity, the very educational model that produces dissenting thought is taken apart. Concomitantly, spaces of dissent in the university are made to shrink.

In JNU, the administration has actively undertaken this through a series of vindictive, unlawful demands and measures. The witch-hunt against dissenting voices; the clamping of free speech; FIRs against peacefully protesting students; imposition of arbitrary fines on students, as well as the recently issued diktat to register compulsory attendance, all demonstrate the insecurity of a schizophrenic administration when exposed to the circulation of dissident ideas.

The Vice Chancellor’s complete disregard for the integrity of the academic council, and the arbitrary removal of seven department chairs and deans including the chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, Professor Sucheta Mahajan, and Professor Kavita Singh, the Dean of the School of Arts and Aesthetics, in violation of long-established protocols and often the JNU statute and constitution itself, is the latest in the habitual display of the moral bankruptcy of the JNU administration.

By now we have all seen the circulating footage and images of students and teachers standing in defiance against the might of the Delhi police. We have seen also in the midst of that press of bodies running from water cannon and lathis the JNU students’ union president Geeta Kumari addressing the very same police as she alerts them against the progressive erosion of the country’s education system and its effects on all our lives.

As JNU goes into lockdown, we urge the Vice Chancellor and the JNU administration to revisit the history of democratisation of universities and the role that the universities played in the struggle against hegemonic forces. The history of student movements at the Jawaharlal Nehru University is imbued with a tradition of unprecedented solidarity between teachers and students. As friends and colleagues, students and teachers in universities and colleges around the country initiate an asymmetric fight we join our voices with theirs and urge you to do the same.

1. 1. 1. Rukmini Chakraborty, Cornell University, New York
      2. Parnisha Sarkar, University of Toronto, Toronto
      3. Devika Shankar, Princeton University, New Jersey
      4. Malavika Kasturi, Department of History, University of Toronto
      5. Samira J unaid, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
      6. Baishakh Chakrabarti, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
      7. Anirban Ghosh, Postdoctoral fellow, Ashoka University
      8. Rohan D’Souza, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, J apan
      9. Sarandha J ain, Anthropology Department, Columbia University, New York
      10. Sohini Chattopadhyay, History Department, Columbia University, New York
      11. Aviroop Sengupta, PhD student, Columbia University
      12. Uponita Mukherjee, Columbia University, New York
      13. Samyak Ghosh, Columbia University, New York
      14. Ishan Mukherjee, Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai
      15. Debarati Bagchi, Adamas University, Kolkata
      16. Anwesha Sengupta, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
      17. Kaustubh Mani Sengupta, Bankura University, West Bengal
      18. Anandaroop Sen, University of Cape Town
      19. Pratyay Nath, Ashoka University, Sonipat
      20. Maria-Daniela Pomohaci, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen
      21. Radhika Chadha, Miranda House, University of Delhi
      22. Gaurav Garg, History Department, New York University, New York.
      23. Somak Biswas, of History, University of Warwick, UK
      24. Andrew Burchell, of History, University of Warwick, UK
      25. Deepasri Baul, Centre for Historical Studies, J awaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
      26. Shrikant Botre, of History, University of Warwick, UK
      27. Snigdha Singh, Miranda House, University of Delhi
      28. Devi Vijay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
      29. Debjani Sengupta, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi
      30. Debobroto Sensharma, Trinity College Dublin
      31. Rupam Banerjee, West Bengal State University, Kolkata
      32. Shounak Ghosh, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
      33. Mar ewa Karwoski, MESAAS Department, Columbia University in the City of New York
      34. Karim Malak, Columbia University, New York
      35. Sitharthan Sriharan, MESAAS Department, Columbia University
      36. Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, New York
      37. Anashya Ghoshal,   formerly      of   the      Department       of   History, Presidency University, Kolkata
      38. Sanghamitra Deb, ex-student, Department of Film Studies, J adavpur University, Kolkata
      39. Sanjukta Deb, ex-student, Department of English, Bethune College, Calcutta University
      40. Soumyadeep Roy, ex-student, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
      41. Subhanil Chowdhury, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
      42. Nikhil Menon, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
      43. Dhiraj Barman, Presidency University, Kolkata
      44. Swapna Banerjee, Associate Professor, History, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
      45. Indranil Mukhopadhyay, O P J indal University, Sonipat, Haryana, India
      46. Soumya Mandi, J adavpur University, Kolkata
      47. Aditi Mukherjee, Leiden University, the Netherlands
      48. Neelanjana Shakya, ex-student, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
      49. Kanti Sur, University of Calcutta & Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Patna centre)
      50. Shaunna Rodrigues, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
      51. Niyati Shenoy, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
      52. Rohit Dutta Roy, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
      53. Wiktor Ostasz, History Faculty, University of Oxford
      54. Rana Baker, MESAAS, Columbia University
      55. Basma Radwan, MESAAS, Columbia University
      56. Sugata Bag, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics
      57. Lavanya Nott, Cornell University, New York
      58. Anindya Sengupta, J adavpur University, Kolkata
      59. Sakshi, University of Cambridge
      60. Sayori Ghoshal, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
      61. Muhammed Niyas Ashraf, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Culture and Societies, Freie University Berlin
      62. Anirban Kapil Baishya, Cinema      and   Media     Studies   Division, University of Southern California
      63. Darshana Sreedhar Mini,   Cinema and Media Studies Division, University of Southern California
      64. Sruthi Muraleedharan, SOAS, University of London
      65. Amit Baishya, University of Oklahoma, Norman
      66. Thaer Al-Sheikh Theeb, MESAAS, Columbia University
      67. Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi, CAS Department of History, AMU, Aligarh
      68. Promona Sengupta, International Research Center: Interweaving Performance Cultures, Freie University, Berlin
      69. Prashant Iyengar, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
      70. Sneha Krishnan, University of Oxford
      71. Surbhi Mahajan, Development Researcher, ex-student, J NU
      72. Neha Vermani, Royal Holloway, University of (Ex CHS, J NU)
      73. Ritika Prasad, Film Studies, J adavpur University, Kolkata
      74. Renny Thomas, University of Delhi
      75. Siddharth Sinha, Independent Scholar(formerly J adavpur University)
      76. Akanksha Mehta, University of Sussex, UK
      77. Marina Alamo-Bryan, Columbia University
      78. Howard Rechavia Taylor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York
      79. Kristina Nielsen,   Department       of   Anthropology,       University       of Pennsylvania
      80. Debabrata Roy, Department of Economics, Victoria Institution (College), Kolkata
      81. Utathya Chattopadhyaya, University of Illinois
      82. Anannya Bohidar, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania ,
      83. Arjab Sarkar, Film Studies, J adavpur University, Kolkata
      84. Sarah Pierce Taylor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
      85. Niyati Sharma, Department of English, University of Oxford
      86. Trishyo Chakraborty,Calcutta University
      87. Arjun Ghosh, I T Delhi
      88. Anna Schir er, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
      89. Raghav Verma, Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
      90. Ashwini Ganeshan, Ohio University, Athens
      91. Paul O'Connell, School of Law, SOAS, University of London.
      92. Sharik   Laliwala,   Independent   Scholar (formerly King’s College London)
      93. Dr Senija Čaušević, Lecturer, School of Finance and Management , SOAS, University of London
      94. Madhuri Katti, Physics Teacher, Kolkata
      95. Sabyasachi Dasgupta,   Department       of   History,      Visva   Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal
      96. Sayantani Datta, Department of History, Presidency University
      97. Nayanjyoti, Delhi University, earlier CSSS/ SSS, J NU
      98. Amit, Ex-CESP, J NU
      99. Vipin Krishna, cur ent institution: UCLA, ex-student of CPS/ SSS J
      100. Noora Kamar, former student of    The English and Foreign Languages University
      101. Aditya Ray, University of London, Ex- CGS/ SLL&CS, J NU
      102. Sudipta Kaviraj, MESAAS, Columbia University, New York
      103. Sriram Mohan, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
      104. Shaunak Mahbubani, New Delhi
      105. Arka Chattopadhyay, I TGN
      106. Krishanu Dutta, former student of University of Calcutta
      107. Anju Christine Lingham, King’s College London, University of London
      108. Sandeep Mertia,        Department         of    Media,        Culture,        and Communication, New York University
      109. Parag J yoti Saikia, Asian University for Women, Chittagong
      110. Richard Williams, SOAS, University of London
      111. Shaashi Ahlawat, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
      112. Archisman Mukherjee, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata
      113. Abeera Khan, SOAS, University of London
      114. Parama Chaudhuri, School of      Education, Indiana      University Bloomington
      115. Shweta Krishnan, George Washington University
      116. Usha Iyer, Dept of Art and Art History, Stanford University
      117. Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      118. Aditya Ramesh, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
      119. Namratha Minupuri, Emory University
      120. Prashant Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
      121. Arnab Dey, State University of New York at Binghamton
      122. Sanghita Sen, University of St Andrews, UK
      123. Shrey Kapoor, Cornell University, New York
      124. Brinkley Messick, Columbia University, New York
      125. Meenu Deswal, University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
      126. Titas De Sarkar, SALC, University of Chicago
      127. Kathryn Zyskowski, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle
      128. Oeendrila Lahiri, ex-CES, J NU
      129. Seema Sareen, Tejii’s Transparency Filmart, New Delhi
      130. Prita Bali, Department of Film Studies, J adavpur University
      131. Frederick Tucker, Department of Sociology, the Graduate Center, CUNY
      132. Meghna Sengupta,    Department       of    Film        Studies, J adavpur University
      133. Shaivya Mishra, University of California, Berkeley
      134. Shailza Sharma, SOAS, University of London
      135. Aarthi, National University of Singapore
      136. Sangita Saha, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      137. Pallavi, EFL, Tezpur University
      138. Bedatri Datta Choudhury, Independent Scholar (Formerly Tisch School of the Arts, New York University)
      139. Vikrant Dadawala, University of Pennsylvania
      140. Mampi Bose, ex-CESP, J NU
      141. Shantanu De Roy, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi
      142. Aparajita Majumdar, Cornell University, New York
      143. Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia
      144. Maroona Murmu, Department of History, J adavpur University, Kolkata
      145. Febe De Geest, Department of Geography, University of Melbourne
      146. Tuhin Bhattacharjee, New York University
      147. Nikita Lamba, (e-student) Department of History, Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi University
      148. Rajarshi Sircar, Hotelier, Sales Manager, Kolkata
      149. Shruti Sengupta, (Ex Student SAA), Documentary Filmmaker
      150. Subhajit Chatterjee,   Department       of   Film     Studies,   J adavpur University
      151. Doyeeta Majumder, Department of English, J adavpur University
      152. Abu Sohel Khondekar, Department of Film Studies, J adavpur University
      153. Debjani Dutta, Division of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California
      154. Argha Manna, J ournalist, Kolkata
      155. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany
      156. William Hofmann, SOAS, University of London
      157. Tithi Banerjee, Presidency College, Kolkata and University of Sussex, UK (Department of Life Science)
      158. Ratna Ghosh, Hooghly Mohsin College under Burdwan University and Rabindra Bharati University (Department of English), West Bengal
      159. Kashi Gomez, SSEAS, C. Berkeley
      160. Anamika Das, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka, India
      161. Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Manchester, UK
      162. Ahitagni Roy Chowdhury, Designer, Kolkata
      163. Khaliq Parkar, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune
      164. Gayatri Nair, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      165. Ujithra Ponniah, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      166. Krithi S, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      167. Biswanath Saha, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
      168. Debalina Ghosh, Designer, Kolkata
      169. AR Vasavi, Social Anthropologist, Bengaluru
      170. Antony Thomas, Senior J ournalist (Retired)
      171. ESM Aslam, Department of History, The New College, Chennai
      172. Priyanka Kumar, Bengaluru (ex- School of Arts and Aesthetics, J NU)
      173. Pavel Pal, Department of Mathematics, Bankura University, West Bengal
      174. Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
      175. 175: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, I SER, Mohali
      176. Syamal Kumar Basak     (Retd),  Department       of   Mathematics, Presidency University, Kolkata
      177. Rashmi Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University
      178. Priyanka Khanna, IGNOU, New Delhi (ex-CHS, J NU)
      179. Abdul Rahman, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      180. Parichay Patra, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus
      181. Krittika Sengupta ,Patha Bhavan, Kolkata
      182. Sanam Roohi, J oseph’s (Autonomous), Bangalore
      183. Shikha Sen, Documentary Film Editor, New Delhi, (ex CHS 1980- 1982)
      184. Satwati Dutta, BKGCH, West Bengal
      185. Sujit Thomas, Deptt of Anthropology, New York University, New York
      186. Parul Abrol, Freelance J ournalist, J NU alumni
      187. Shahnaz Akhter Dept of Politics   and International University of Warwick
      188. Sara Arab,     Masters   Candidate,   The   Graduate      Insitute       of International and Development Studies , Geneva
      189. Shadab Arab, PhD Candidate, University of Geneva
      190. Anand Teltumbde, Writer and Civil Rights Activist
      191. Tarun Karmakar, Teacher, West Kolkata
      192. Arnab Chakraborty, University of York,
      193. Amit Upadhyay, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      194. Anish Vanaik, J indal Global Law School, Sonipat
      195. Aakshi Magazine, University of St Andrews, UK
      196. Shalini Shekhar, Publishing Professional, New Delhi
      197. Vanessa Chishti, Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat
      198. Santosh Verma, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      199. Sita Mamidipudi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      200. Avishek Konar, Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat
      201. Divya Sharma, University of Sussex
      202. Snehashish Mitra, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS),
      203. Rahul Menon, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      204. Pooja Satyogi, Ambedkar University, Delhi
      205. Preeti Singh, The Ohio State University (former MA/ PhD, J NU)
      206. Upendra Prasad Singh , Bhasa Publishers, Ranchi (MA J NU)
      207. Probal Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
      208. Abhijit Gupta, Department of English, Jadavpur University
      209. Rahul Nair, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio (MA, J NU)
      210. Akshay Dafade, Designer, Bangalore
      211. Debapriya Roy, United Nations Climate Change, Bonn, Germany
      212. Lalyi Uddin, University of London
      213. Garima Sahai, University of Cambridge, UK
      214. Maidul Islam, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
      215. Rashmi Singh, University of Cambridge, K.
      216. Sushmita Pati, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
      217. Gil Anidjar, Professor, Department of Religion and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, NY
      218. Dr Sanjib Kumar Borkakoti, Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College, Nagaon-782002, Assam
      219. Dr Nandakumar, Associate Professor (Read), University College, Trivandrum
      220. Anil Chaudhary, Chief Educator, Popular Education and Action Centre (PEACE), New Delhi
      221. Ranjana Saxena, Department of Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies, University of Delhi
      222. Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
      223. Rekha Pappu, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      224. Charu Singh, University of Cambridge
      225. J ared Sacks, Columbia University, New York
      226. Snigdha Kumar, University of Minnesota, Minnesota
      227. Vindhya, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
      228. Albeena Shakil, J indal Global Law School, Sonipat
      229. Ramna Walia, Department of Radio, Television, and Film, The University of Texas at Austin
      230. Dr Pallavi Roy, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London
      231. Sandhya Devesan, J esus and Mary College, New Delhi
      232. Shilpi Bhattacharya, J indal Global Law School, Sonipat
      233. Prerana Choudhury, Editor, Katha India, ex-student, SAA, J NU
      234. Sapna Reheem Shaila, Department of Law, King’s College London
      235. Rohan Deb Roy, University of Reading
      236. Nandini Dutta, Associate Professor, Economics, Miranda House, University of Delhi
      237. Meena P, Coordinator- Hub for Law and Policy, School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
      238. Asima Sarkar, Medical College, Kolkata
      239. Arnab Chatterjee, Department of Film Studies, J adavpur University
      240. Achyut Sarkar, IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata
      241. Shaon Basu, ex-student, Economics, J adavpur University
      242. Shayantan Roy, ex-student, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
      243. Wendell Marsh, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University, New York
      244. Nilanjana Mukherjee, JNU Alumnus, University of Delhi
      245. Dr Alessandra Mezzadri, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, London
      246. Nandini Bhattacharya, Lecturer in History, University of Dundee, UK 247 Ayushi Madan, SHS, Ambedkar University Delhi
      247. Rikimi Madhukaillya, Associate Professor- Pearl Academy, Delhi
      248. Upal Chakrabarti, Presidency University
      249. Ananya Chakraborty,   ex-student,   Department   of Film   Studies, Jadavpur University
      250. Deblina Dey,   J indal   Global   Law School, P.     J indal Global University, Sonipat & ex-J NU
      251. Fiona Kumari Campbell, University of Dundee, Scotland
      252. Akanksha Bansal, Panlingua, New Delhi
      253. Viren Singh, Theatre Artist & Director, Kurukshetra, Haryana
      254. Sharmistha Ghosh, Asian University of Women, Bangladesh
      255. Sudipa Topdar, Assistant Professor, Illinois State University, USA
      256. Amrita Mondal,     Assistant    Professor,  History,      North     Bengal University, West Bengal
      257. Indrani Chatterjee, Professor, History, University of Texas at Austin
      258. Saurabh Mishra, Lecturer, History, University of Sheffield
      259. Mrinalini Sinha, Professor, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
      260. Alexios Tsigkas, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, The New School for Social Research, USA
      261. Kriti Budhiraja,       Graduate      student,   Sociology,   University       of Minnesota
      262. Vrinda Marwah, Graduate student, Sociology, University of Texas- Austin
      263. Suvir Kaul, A M Rosenthal Professor, University of Pennsylvania
      264. Sourav Ghosh, Graduate Student, History, University of California, Berkeley
      265. Katyayani Dalmia, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, The New School for Social Research, USA (ex-CSSS, J NU)
      266. Ishita Pande, Associate Professor, Queen’s University, Canada
      267. Anjali Datta, University of Cambridge
      268. Debaditya Bhattacharya, Nivedita College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata
      269. Ben Norton, J ournalist, New York
      270. Sucharita Sengupta,    PhD   Student,    Graduate       Institute        of International and Development Studies, Geneva
      271. Peter Hill, J unior Research Fellow, Christ Church, University of Oxford; Hon Secretary, Oxford University and College Union (personal capacity)
      272. Andrew Peak, Youth Officer of Oxford and District Labour Party, National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts NC member (personal capacity)
      273. Narayan Nathani, Master’s Candidate at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (J NU alumnus)
      274. Tyrone Falls, National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, South West NC co-rep (personal capacity)
      275. Indivar J onnalagadda, PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
      276. Ania Professor. University of Pennsylvania
      277. Akhauri Nitish Kumar(Research Scholar), MSPU, Moscow
      278. Rovel Sequeira, Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania
      279. J ayadev Athreya, Associate Professor, University of Washington
      280. Anamarija Horvat, PhD Researcher, Northumbria University, UK
      281. Meghna Nag Chowdhuri, University of Cambridge, UK
      282. Ayesha Sheth, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
      283. Bijoya Roy, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi
      284. Ranabir Samaddar, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata
      285. Oyndrila Sarkar, Heidelberg University, Germany
      286. Tariq Thachil, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
      287. Yengkhom J ilangamba,         Tata    Institute        of   Social    Sciences, Guwahati
      288. Annu J alais, National University of Singapore, Singapore
      289. J ohn Thomas, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, I T Guwahati, Guwahati
      290. Anurag Advani, Graduate Student, SSEAS, University of California, Berkeley
      291. Atreyee Gohain, Department of English, University of North Florida
      292. Aniruddh Sheth, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
      293. Piyali Chakraborty, Self-Employed
      294. Shibani Ganguli, School Teacher, West Bengal
      295. Tanmay J aswal, Self Employed, Gurgaon
      296. Suchismita Chattopadhyay, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (ex-CPS, J NU)
      297. Mandakini Dubey, Department of English, Ashoka University (Haryana)
      298. Ritambhara Mehta, Nazariya: A Queer Feminist Resource Group (M.A. Politics (International Studies, SIS, 2007-09)
      299. Jack Loveridge, The Cooper Union, New York
      300. Hariharan, Ashoka University, Haryana
      301. Debarati Roy, Employed, Bangalore
      302. Ravindran Sriramachandran, Ashoka University, Delhi
      303. Kanika Singh, Ashoka University, Sonepat
      304. Preeti Kumari, Doctoral candidate, I T Delhi, J NU Alumnus
      305. Durba Chattaraj, Ashoka University, Sonepat
      306. Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Retired, Presidency College, Kolkata
      307. Aditi Chaturvedi, Ashoka University, Sonepat
      308. Iman Mitra, Centre for Development Practice and Research, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Patna
      309. Monisha dhingra, Ashoka University, Haryana
      310. Indrajit Hazra, Journalist, The Economic Times, New Delhi
      311. Sayantani Adhikary, Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, Falta
      312. Tulsi Srinivasan, Ashoka University, Sonepat
      313. Sounak Kar, ex student, Dept of direction and screenplay writing, SRFTI, Kolkata
      314. Shruti Jain, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Patna
      315. Arundhati Dasgupta, Pearl Academy, New Delhi
      316. Anamika Priyadarshini, TISS Patna Centre, Patna
      317. Teja Varma Pusapati, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida
      318. Sowjanya, TISS, Hyderabad
      319. Vinod Koshti, ex-SLL&CS, J NU
      320. Subhasri Chatterjee, City, University of London
      321. Arijit Ghosh, Kolkata
      322. Manish Shrivastava, (ex-CSSP/ SSS), J t Seceretary, IPTA National Committee
      323. Anirban Bandyopadhyay, EMMRC, Xavier’s College, Kolkata
      324. Ishani Dasgupta, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
      325. Swati Mitchelle Dsouza, Associate   Fellow, The    Energy and Resources Institute
      326. Meenakshi, PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
      327. Ramya Devi, (ex CSSS/ SSS), Educational Consultant, Tamil Nadu
      328. Payoshini Pandey, Undergraduate student, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune
      329. Ranbir Nerwal, Business, New
      330. Kalpana Mishra, Freelance J ournalist, New Delhi
      331. Suvritta Khatri,      Associate    Professor,   Deshbandhu   College, University of Delhi
      332. Shri Prakash, Faculty, Department of Mass Communication, Xavier’s College, Ranchi
      333. Radha Kumar, Self employed,
      334. Samina Mishra, Film Maker and Writer, New Delhi
      335. Iona Sinha, New Delhi
      336. Samira J ain, Film Maker, New Delhi
      337. Aarti, ex-SSS, J NU
      338. Anil Singh, Secretary General, South Asian Network for Social and Agricultural Development (SANSAD), New Delhi
      339. Soe Tjen Marching, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS- University of London
      340. Ranjita Dawn, Assistant Professor, Loreto College, Kolkata
      341. Subir Sinha, Development Studies SOAS, University of London
      342. Rashmi Varma, Department of English, University of Warwick
      343. Dr Vanja Hamzić, SOAS University of London
      344. Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania
      345. Eleanor Higgs, SOAS University of London, UK
      346. Navtej Purewal, SOAS University of London, UK
      347. Jens Lerche, SOAS University of London, UK
      348. Manali Desai, University of Cambridge, UK
      349. Sharmishthha Gupta, All India Radio, New Delhi
      350. Raghavendra Lal Das, (Retd.) Banker, Ex-CHS/ SSS, (1976-1982), J NU
      351. Sitaram Singh, Theatre Activist, Ex-J NU Student (1976-1980)
      352. Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Senior Journalist and Writer, New Delhi
      353. Sherna Dastur, Graphic Designer, Delhi
      354. Nithya Natarajan, Royal Holloway, University of London
      355. Mayur Suresh, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
      356. Oindrila Bank officer. Hooghly
      357. Swargajyoti Gohain, Ashoka University
      358. Vagish K J ha, IL&FS   Education, NOIDA
      359. Poornima Paidipaty, Philomathia Research Fellow in History, Cambridge University, UK
      360. J ohn Faulkner, SOAS, University of London
      361. Barbara Har iss-White, Oxford University
      362. Anwesha Roy, King’s College London
      363. Arun Kumar, Linnaeus University, Sweden
      364. Meera Visvanathan, Shiv Nadar University, Dadri
      365. Aayati Sengupta, the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
      366. Ammel Sharon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
      367. Alfredo Saad Filho, SOAS University of London
      368. Arnab Ghosh,
      369. Leandro Vergara-Camus, SOAS University of London
      370. Chaman Lal, Retired Professor, CIL/ SLL&CS, J NU, New Delhi
      371. Anushka Halder, J adavpur University & University of Oxford
      372. Sahil Sasidharan, University of Sheffield
      373. Adrija Dey, SOAS University of London
      374. Afsar J afri, New Delhi
      375. Haimanti Roy, (University of Dayton)
      376. Sunanda Bhat, Filmmaker, Bangalore
      377. J ayeeta Sharma, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
      378. Daniel Bender, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
      379. Molly Varghese, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
      380. Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Gender Studies, SOAS University of London
      381. Kanika Sharma, Lecturer, SOAS University of London
      382. Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Norwegian Network for Asian Studies
      383. Chandra Shekhar Tibrewal, Social Activist, Somerville, MA, USA
      384. Feyzi Ismail, SOAS University of London
      385. Guruprasad, Employed in Private Sector, Chennai (Ex -CPS/ SSS, J NU)
      386. Ann Ninan, J ournalist, Delhi
      387. Divya Dwivedi, I T Delhi
      388. Vidya Nidhi, Associate professor, Government College, Sunni, Shimla
      389. Sudip Kumar Saha, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong
      390. J acob Weile, South Denmark University in Kolding
      391. Nilanjana Sinha, Burdwan University
      392. Dr Annapoorna Sharma, Consultant Paediatrician Oxford UK
      393. Ravi Normandale, BA History (SOAS,London)
      394. Shalini Shekhar, Publishing professional, New Delhi
      395. Dipak Roy, UNICEF (Retd.), (Student of J NU from 1976 to 1978 in Zakir Hussein Centre for Educational Studies)
      396. Ayesha Fatima, English honours, Sri Venkateswara College
   41. 397. Anoushka Sinha, English Honours, Sri Venkateswara College
       398. Bharat Narayanan, English Honours, Sri Venkateswara College
       399. Akash Kumar, English Honours, Sri Venkateswara College
       400. Ranjana Dave, Gati Dance Forum (ex-student, School of Arts and Aesthetics, J NU), New Delhi
       401. Gyanesh Kudaisya,    Faculty,   South   Asian    Studies,    National University of Singapore
       402. Arvind Elangovan, History, Wright State University
       403. Arunava Sinha, Ashoka University, Sonipat
       404. Matthew J . Nelson, Politics, SOAS, University of London

41. 41. 405. Vijayakrishnan, Bangalore (J NU SIS Alumnus)
        406. Bhavani Raman, Department of History, University of Toronto
        407. Nandita Sehgal, Former IAS, (Ex student, SIS, J NU), Dubai
        408. Samira Sheikh, Department of History, Vanderbilt University (ex- student, CHS, J NU)
        409. Kavita Ratna, Bangalore
        410. Pamela Ghosh, Optometrist, Kolkata
        411. J ostein J akobsen, University of Oslo
        412. Rama Mantena, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
        413. Poonam Kapoor, Vasudeva Textile Designer and Proprietor of Black Tulip Design Studio for Home Furnishings and Fabrics and Sarees
        414. Meera Samson, Director, CORD, New Delhi
        415. Dilip Sarma, Centre for Humanistic Development, Guwahati
        416. Winifred Poster, Washington University, Louis
        417. Shreya Dutta, Pondicher y University
        418. Anjali Dutta, Kolkata
        419. J ayasree Mukherjee , Pondicher y University
        420. Deep Mukherjee, Alakriti, Hyderabad
        421. Anurag Dasgupta, Kolkata
        422. Namita Dey, Kolkata
        423. Vineetha Pondichery University

41. 41. 435. Aritrika Lahiri, The Neotia University
        436. Pranab Roy, Kolkata
        437. Faizi Hashmi, Delhi
        438. Rui Oliveira, PhD Researcher, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
        439. Nalini Taneja, Associate Professor, School of Open Learning, Delhi University (retd.)
        440. Debashree Mukherjee, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
        441. Seetha Kumar, London
        442. Sabarna Roy, Kolkata
        443. Debjani Nandy, Kolkata
        444. Sudur Roy, I EST, Shibpur, Kolkata
        445. Professor Emma Crewe, SOAS, University of London

41. 41. 475. Ruchi Chaturvedi, University of Cape Town
        476. Asanda Benya, University of Cape Town
        477. Mrityunjay Prabhakar, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
        478. Ujjayan Bhattacharya, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur
        479. Ishan Agarwal, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
        480. Sangeeta Ghosh, Economic & Political Weekly, Mumbai
        481. Inmaculada Sanchez-Garcia, Northumbria University, UK
        482. Ilina Sen, Feminist Scholar, (Retd) Professor, TISS, Mumbai
        483. Ravi J oshi, Former Diplomat, Ex-Student of SIS, J NU

41. 41. 484. Meena J oshi, Educator
        485. Sharmadip Basu, Azim Premji University, Bangalore (Ex-CESP, Ex- CAWES)
        486. Varuni Bhatia, Azim Premji University, Bangalore (Ex-CHS)
        487. Maya Saran, Ashoka University, Haryana
        488. Sonal Dhama, Designer
        489. Rohit Kumar, Educator
        490. Apoorv Avram, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
        491. Harshita Yalamarty, York University, Canada (ex-CPS, J NU)
        492. Teresa Barat, concerned citizen, New Delhi
        493. J onas Hamberg, University of Waterloo, Canada
        494. Rahul Roy, film maker, Gurgaon, Haryana
        495. Supriya Roy, Govt Officer, Kolkata
        496. Madhureeta Anand, Film maker, New Delhi
        497. Natasha Badhwar, Writer and Film maker, New Delhi
        498. Sonya Surabhi Gupta, J amia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
        499. Aashti Kazmi,   Student, Srishti Institute of  Art    and Design, Bangalore
        500. Vivek Sagar Ghosh, Student, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
        501. Simin Patel, Director, Bombaywalla Historical Works
        502. Arunabha Banerjee, Executive Director - Alliance Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd.

41. 41. 503. Prerna Gupta, Gargi College - DU (alumnus), London School of Economics and Political Science (alumnus)
        504. Christian Luczanits, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
        505. Vijaya Rajni, Associate professor, D.U.
        506. J anaki Abraham, Associate professor, U.
        507. Sajal Head-Railways. Ahmedabad
        508. Reena Mohan, New Delhi
        509. Sujata Mukherjee, teacher, Kolkata
        510. Siddhartha Datta, post doctoral fellow, NCBS
        511. Aparna Balachandran, Department of History, University of Delhi
        512. Pragati Mohapatra, Department of History, Indraprastha College for Women, U.
        513. Manju Kapur writer and ex teacher Miranda House College Delhi University
        514. Richa J ha, writer and publisher, Noida
        515. Garima Bhat, CEO of Creatnet Services Limited, New Delhi
        516. Ponni Arasu, MA, History (2005), PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Alumnus, J NU
        517. Shahana Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Delhi University
        518. Rashmi Doraiswamy, J NU Alumnus, Delhi
        519. Madan Gopal Singh, J NU Alumnus, NCR
        520. Deborah Sutton, Lancaster University, J NU Alumnus

41. 41. 521. Dr Gun Nidhi Dalmia , Industrialist and Writer
        522. Satyaki Karmakar, University of Calcutta
        523. Debak Das, Department of Government, Cornell University
        524. Prabhat Garg, Entrepreneur, New Delhi
        525. Mayukh IGNOU, Bharathiyar University
        526. Syamantakshobhan   Basu, Department of   English, J adavpur University
        527. Panchali Kar, Actor, Writer, Alumnus, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Technology
        528. Sreejata Roy (former student of University of Calcutta)
        529. Reshmi Mukherjee,   Institute   Of Education (P.G) For Women, Chandernagore (Hooghly)
        530. Satyasikha Chakraborty, Rutgers University, New J ersey
        531. Priyanka Basu, The British Library London
        532. Navtej K. Purewal, Deputy Director, South Asia Institute, Reader in Political Sociology and Development Studies, SOAS University of London.
        533. Priyanka Basu, The British Library, London
        534. Shari Daya, University of Cape Town, South Africa
        535. Apurba Goswami, Delhi University
        536. Kelsey Utne, Cornell University, New York
        537. APA Kabeer, Ex CSSS/ SSS/ J NU
        538. Devasis Kundu, Kolkata

41. 41. 539. Elisa Van Waeyenberge, SOAS University of London, UK
        540. Saumyashree Ghosh, Princeton University, New J ersey
        541. Pradyumna J airam, King’s College, London (Ex CHS/ SIS)
        542. Swarnajyoti Basu, ex-student, Indian Institute of Aeronautical Science, Kolkata
        543. Pratichi, Department of History, University of California, Irvine (ex- CHS/ SSS)
        544. Anandi Rao, University of California, Irvine
        545. Alwin Franke, Columbia University, New York
        546. Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine
        547. Eyal Amiran, University of California, Irvine
        548. Pragya Trivedi, University of California, Irvine
        549. Nandita Badami, University of California, Irvine
        550. Dr Rochana Bajpai SOAS University of London
        551. Dr Prashant Kidambi, University of Leicester
        552. Anannya Mukherjee, University of California, Irvine
        553. Saba Sharma, University of Cambridge, UK
        554. Vatsal Naresh, Yale University, USA
        555. Tejas Parasher, University of Chicago
        556. K Krishna Reddy, Freelance   History Teacher at Hyderabad,   ex- J NU Student, CHS/ SSS, 1980-82
        557. Mithu Sen, Artist, New Delhi
        558. Ashok Beera, Travel writer and Photographer, Madrid, Spain

41. 41. 559. Shambwaditya Ghosh , Research Scholar , Ambedkar University, Delhi
        560. Meghna Nandy, Student, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
        561. Sharmila Doyle, concerned citizen, New Delhi
        562. Selvyn J ussy, Associate Professor, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
        563. K L Sharma, Associate Professor (retd.), of Economics, University of Rajasthan, J aipur.
        564. R Suryanarayana Reddy, Professor, Osmania University, J NU Alumnus, Hyderabad
        565. Nalini Dhariwal, Director, Youreka, Delhi
        566. Vasudha Pande, New Delhi
        567. Sadhna Saxena, , Deptt. Of Education, University of Delhi, Delhi
        568. Gyan Prakash, Professor, Princeton University, USA
        569. Veronica Sousa, Graduate Student, Princeton University, USA
        570. Sophia Abbas, Graduate Student, Yale University, Connecticut
        571. J agat Sohail, Graduate Student, Princeton University, USA
        572. Nabaneet Bora, Visual Designer, New Delhi
        573. Mathew Titus, Financial Consultant
        574. Rituparna Sengupta, Graduate Student, I T Delhi
        575. Anjali Monteiro, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
        576. Jyotirmay Das, Graduate Student, I T Delhi

41. 41. 577. Sandip Datta, Graduate Student, I T Delhi
        578. Rupali Bansode, Graduate Student, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
        579. J igisha Bhattacharya, MPhil, CSSSC Kolkata, former CES-J NU
        580. Pritika Nehra, Alumna I T, Delhi
        581. P. J ayasankar, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
        582. Pranav K Chaudhary (CHS / J NU1979-82), Freelance journalist and researcher Former Assistant Editor TOI Patna edition
        583. Arpita Sengupta, Barasat Government College, West Bengal
        584. Sumita Sharma,   Assistant    Professor,  Shyam   Lal   College, University of Delhi
        585. Upama Sen, Architect, Kolkata
        586. Gilbert Achcar, Professor, SOAS, University of London
        587. Himanshu Sagar, Pearl Academy
        588. Lise Bjerke, University of Oslo
        589. Sritama Chatterjee, J adavpur University, Kolkata
        590. Ankit Prasad, J adavpur University, Kolkata
        591. P.   Geevan, Director, Centre for Environment and Social Concerns, Ahmedabad, Alumnus, J NU
        592. Debarati Sarkar, ex-student, Department of Comparative Literature, J adavpur University, Kolkata
        593. Rahul Rao, SOAS University of London
        594. Sumallya Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi

41. 41. 595. SVD Chandrasekhar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
        596. Huzaifa Pandit, Research Scholar(English), University of Kashmir
        597. Sandip Debnath, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, I T Delhi
        598. Rajiv, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, I T Delhi
        599. Esther Moraes, New Delhi
        600. Shamindra Nath Roy, New Delhi
        601. Mithun Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad. (Ex. CSMCH/ SSS/ J NU)
        602. Rani Rohini Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad. (Ex. CSMCH/ SSS/ J NU)
        603. Shireen Department of History, Calcutta University (Retired)
        604. Geeta Kapur, independent critic and author, New Delhi
        605. Ritanjan Das, University of Portsmouth, UK
        606. Manjira , Researcher, CLI, Alumni, I T Kharagpur
        607. Bimla Chand, J NU alumnus, Australia
        608. Kumar, Prof of Management (Retd.), Guruvayurappan Institute of Management, Coimbatore
        609. Rabindra Hazari, Lawyer and J NU alumnus, Mumbai
        610. Meera Velayudhan, Policy Analyst( RULSG), CDS, Trivandrum
        611. Gita Dang, J NU alumnus, New Delhi
        612. Nitin George - Creative Director, ITSA, New Delhi

41. 41. 613. Anindya Sengupta, Risk Analytics professional, alumnus of ISI Delhi, Toronto
        614. Anirban Dutta, Film-maker,
        615. Serina Mukhopadhyay, Teacher, Kolkata
        616. Sneha Lamba, Program, Bloomberg School of Public Health, J ohns Hopkins University
        617. Sumit Sarkar, (Retd.) Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi
        618. Tanika Sarkar, (Retd.) Professor, CHS/ SSS, J NU
        619. SA Khan , Chief Regional Manager, GSFC, Vadodara
        620. Samata Biswas, Department of English, Bethune College, Kolkata
        621. Sudeshna Deb, ex-student, MSc Physics, Calcutta University
        622. Soumitra Deb, ex-student, R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata
        623. Sarah Naqvi, Student, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
        624. Hasnain Naqvi, lecturer, Xavier's College, Mumbai
        625. Indira Chandrasekhar, Publisher, Tulika Books, New Delhi, India
        626. Snigdha Sircar, (Retd.) Teacher, Loreto, Elliot Road and Heritage School, Kolkata
        627. Prasun Sircar,    (Retd.)    Medical     Representative,     Abbot Pharmaceuticals, Kolkata
        628. Deepak Saran, former student, SIS, J NU, (Retd.) IAS, HP Cadre
        629. Vivan Sundaram, Artist
        630. Gulammohammed Sheikh, Artist
        631. Nilima Sheikh, Artist
        632. Anuradha Kapur, Theatre director, former head of National School of Drama
        633. Matan Cohen, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University, New York
        634. Manas Dutta, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal
        635. Tarangini Sriraman, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
        636. Manjeet Ramgotra, SOAS University of London, UK
        637. Debjani Banerjee, Adjunct faculty, English department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus, Lucy Stone Hall
        638. Rebeca Robertson, Senior Analyst Programmer, SOAS, University of London
        639. Shirin Rai, Professor of Politics & International Studies, The University of Warwick
        640. Eleanor Newbigin, Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern India, SOAS, University of London
        641. Shivani Kapoor, P. Jindal Global University, Haryana.

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