Statement on censorship of the BBC documentary “India: the Modi Question”

Date: 31 January 2023

We are a group of Indian scientists and academics.

We are dismayed at the censorship of the two-part BBC documentary, “India: the Modi Question”. The Indian government has had the documentary removed from social media under the pretext that it is “undermining the sovereignty and integrity of India”. This justification does not withstand scrutiny and the removal violates our rights, as Indians, to access and discuss important information about our society and government.

University administrations across the country have tried to prevent the screening of the documentary. This violates the principles of academic freedom. Universities should encourage open discussions on social and political questions. Such discussions are crucial for the proper functioning of a democratic society. It is unacceptable for Universities to block the expression of some views, merely because they are critical of the government. We note that the BBC documentary does not raise any fundamentally new points. Already, in 2002, the National Human Rights Commission “reached the definite conclusion that … there was a comprehensive failure of the State to protect the Constitutional rights of the people of Gujarat, starting with the tragedy in Godhra … and continuing with the violence that ensued in the weeks that followed.”¹ Numerous scholars, filmmakers, and human-rights activists have reached similar conclusions over the past twenty years.

In spite of this, those who were instrumental in encouraging and enabling the violence in Gujarat in 2002 have never been held to account. This accountability is crucial, not only to prevent a repeat of such events but also to reverse the communal polarization that threatens to tear the country apart today. Therefore, the questions raised in the BBC documentary are important. Banning the film will only further silence the voice of the victims of this violence.

Needless to say, our criticism of censorship in India should not be interpreted as a blanket endorsement of the BBC or of the British establishment. We are aware that Jack Straw, who appears in the documentary, was the British foreign secretary in Tony Blair’s cabinet. In this role, he was responsible for spreading falsehoods about “Iraqi weapons of mass destruction”, which were dutifully repeated by the BBC and used to justify the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.² So we encourage viewers of the BBC documentary to supplement their information with the voluminous and reliable material produced by Indian scholars and activists, documenting both the horrific events of 2002³ and the appalling situation faced by minorities in the country today.

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1. Page 25 of “Proceedings of the National Human Rights
   Commission on the situation in Gujarat”, 1 March–1 July 2002. Available
   at: https://nhrc.nic.in/sites/default/files/GUJARAT.pdf↩︎
2. Burnham et al., “Mortality after the 2003 invasion of
   Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey”, Available at: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)69491-9/fulltext↩︎
3. See, for example, the report of the “Concerned Citizens
   Tribunal”: https://www.sabrang.com/tribunal/↩︎

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Signatories

The institutional affiliations given below are provided only for
purposes of identification and these signatures do not necessarily
reflect the views of these institutes.

1	Suvrat Raju	ICTS
2	Madhusudhan Raman	Delhi University
3	Koel Das	IISER Kolkata
4	Suchitra Mathur	IIT Kanpur
5	Alok Laddha	Chennai Mathematical Institute
6	Supratim Sengupta	IISER Kolkata
7	Shivani Upadhyaya	UC Berkeley
8	Ronak Soni	University of Cambridge
9	Rahul Varman	IIT Kanpur
10	Ankan Paul	IACS
11	Ravinder Banyal	IIA, Bangalore
12	Prateek Raj	IIM Bangalore
13	Ashley Tellis	Independent Researcher
14	Vineetha Venugopal	Independent researcher
15	Rohan Parakh	Harvard University
16	Sunil Choudhary	University of Western Australia
17	Shivam Kumar	University of Notre Dame
18	Surjadipta De Sarkar	IISc
19	R Srinivasan Prof (Retd)	IIM Bangalore
20	Anwesh Bhattacharya	ESPCI Paris
21	Subham Dutta Chowdhury	University of Chicago
22	Jyothis V V	NISER, Bhubaneswar
23	Bittu K R	Ashoka University
24	anupam a. h	ICTS, Bangalore
25	Ajay Skaria	University of Minnesota
26	Ajit Menon	Madras Institute of Development Studies
27	Vinod	Centre for budget and policy studies, Bangalore
28	Pradeep Kumar Seshadri	University of Iowa
29	Bhaskaran Raman	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
30	Shanta Laishram	Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
31	Chandan Singh Dalawat	HRI, Allahabad
32	Arnab Priya Saha	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
33	Srabashi Basu	Great Learning
34	Amar Jesani	Independent Consultant
35	Aanontyo Anindya Kakoli	Vellore Institute of Technology
36	Aniket Sule	Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE-TIFR)
37	Sreangsu Acharyya	None
38	Apoorva Nagar	IIST
39	Sayali Bhatkar	Tata Institute of Fundamental Reasearch
40	Samir Datta	Chennai Mathematical Institute
41	Peggy Mohan	Ashoka University
42	Karim Mosani	Currently visiting Ahmedabad University, joining University of Tuebingen in March
43	Saptarshi	IIT Kanpur
44	Aritra Chatterjee	Indian Institute of Science
45	Kinjal banerjee	BITS-Pilani Goa
46	Debasis Mondal	Centre For Quantum Technologies
47	Aradhita Chattopadhyaya	Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
48	S. Krishnaswamy	Ex Madurai Kamaraj University
49	Suman Kundu	Weizmann Institute of Science
50	Aaroha Malagi	National Centre for Biological Sciences
51	Mrittika B	Working Professional
52	Indraneel Dasgupta	Indian Statistical Institute
53	Umang Bhat	Indian Institute of Science
54	Unmesh Dutta Chowdhury	NISER
55	Naresh Dadhch	IUCAA
56	Sudipta Bandyopadhyay	University of Calcutta
57	Sharachchandra Lele	ATREE, Bengaluru
58	Avirup Shaw	NA
59	Dilip D’Souza	Independent writer/journalist
60	B Ananthanarayan	IISc
61	Arindam Roy	BITS Pilani
62	Rudranil Basu	BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
63	Vivek Kumar Mehta	Tezpur University
64	Tanmay Krishna	IISER-Mohali
65	Deepak D’Souza	Indian Institute of Science
66	Anirban Roy	Cornell University
67	S.P. Rajaguru	IIA, Bangalore and Stanford University
68	Mainak Guha	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
69	Rajat Tandon	University of Hyderabad
70	Prof. S. C. Lakhotia	Banaras Hindu University
71	Aman Chokshi	University of Melbourne
72	Manjunath Krishnapur	Indian Institute of Science
73	Prof. Purushottama Bilimale	Jawahar Lal University ( JNU), New Delhi ( Retired)
74	Koushiki Bhattaharyya	Ahmedabad University
75	Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay	Nv
76	Kalyan Ray	Jadavpur University (Former Professor)
77	Ira Raja	Delhi University
78	Thangamma	Free lance
79	Arati Chokshi	Retd scientist
80	Suchetan Das	IIT Kanpur
81	Ramesh Sreekantan	Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore
82	Bindusar Sahoo	IISER Thiruvananthapuram
83	Shamsul Islam	Former faculty University of Delhi
84	Neelima Sharma	Nishant Natya Manch Delhi
85	khalid	Charles Darwin University
86	Joby Joseph	University of Hyderabad
87	Simran Issar	Mishra Farm
88	Ramachandra Guha	Historian and writer
89	Subhadip Chakraborti	Friedrich Alexander University, Germany
90	Prof. Mohan Rao	Former professor, JNU.
91	Writabrata Bhattacharya	Chennai Mathematical Institute
92	Narayanan Srinivasan	IIT Kanpur
93	Omkar Shetye	ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore
94	Kartik Sreedhar	Washington State University
95	Sandeep Krishna	National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
96	Dibyajyoti Chakravarti	TCG CREST
97	Navdeep Mathur	IIM Ahmedabad
98	Muhammed Yaseen Harris	IIIT Hyderabad
99	Shiv Sethi	Raman Research Institute
100	Arpan	Institute of Physics Bhubhaneswar
101	chhotebhai	Convenor, Indian Catholic Forum
102	Vivek	Independent
103	Protyush Nandi	University of Calcutta
104	Kevin Jose	University of Southampton
105	Manali Chakrabarti	Independent Researcher
106	Sayid Mondal	Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
107	Rana Barua	I.S.I., Kolkata
108	Gadadhar Misra	Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore
109	Debashis Ghoshal	JNU New Delhi
110	Bhavtosh Bansal	IISER Kolkata
111	Abhishek Chowdhuri	IIT Gandhinagar
112	Nutan Limaye	IIT Bombay, IT University of Copenhagen
113	Sowmya Dechamma CC	University of Hyderabad
114	Pavan Dharanipragada	IMSc
115	N D Hari Dass	Retired from IMSc, Chennai
116	Sagari R Ramdas	Food Sovereignty Alliance , India
117	Rohit Ramakrishnan	Indian Institute of Science
118	Achin Chakraborty	Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
119	Venu Madhav Govindu	Indian Institute of Science
120	Dayani Chakravarthy	National centre for biological sciences
121	Meenakshi D’Cruz	Freelance Copy-editor
122	Sanchari Pal	IIT Kanpur
123	Tabish Qureshi	Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia
124	Soumyadeep Chaudhuri	ULB, Belgium
125	Neha Sangwan	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
126	Parthasarathi Majumdar	IACS, Kolkata
127	Sujit Narayanan	Simon Fraser University
128	Juny K Wilfred	IIHS
129	Partha Pratim Roy	Center for Physics Education Research, Kolkata
130	Vimalraj A.	Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE, TIFR)
131	SANJAY A PAI	Bangalore
132	Devdatt Dubhashi	Chalmers University
133	Sugra Chunawala	Retired… Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
134	Debades Bandyopadhyay	AU, Kolkata
135	DEBJANI SENGUPTA	IP College for Women, delhi university
136	Suratno Basu	SRM University, AP
137	Kuntal Ghosh	Indian Statistical institute
138	Arul Lakshminarayan	IIT Madras
139	N. Vittal	University of London
140	Bihan Banerjee	TIFR Mumbai
141	Arijit Chakrabarty	Indian Statistical Institute
142	Inzemamul Haque	IIT Kanpur
143	R. Geeta	Retired Professor, University of Delhi
144	Laxman Ganapati	Retired
145	M. V. Ramana	University of British Columbia
146	Soumitro Banerjee	IISER Kolkata
147	Maumita Bandyopadhyay	University of Calcutta
148	Navin Kashyap	Indian Institute of Science
149	MAIDUL ISLAM	Political Scientist, Kolkata
150	Ishan Santra	Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
151	Rituparna Mandal	S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
152	Pranav Pandit	ICTS-TIFR
153	Charu Soni	Independent writer / journalist
154	Pranjal Trivedi	University of Hamburg
155	Mamta Gautam	Indian Institute of technology ,kanpur
156	Sunil Mukhi	IISER Pune
157	Deepak Malghan	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
158	G Rajasekaran	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
159	Agnivo Sarkar	Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar
160	Saurabh Thakur	HBCSE, TIFR
161	Vaibhav Vaish	IISER Mohali
162	Sunil	JMI
163	Sankalp Tiwari	Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
164	Shiva Shankar	IIT Bombay, visiting professor.
165	Siddharth Ramachandran	Boston University
166	indu prakash singh	CityMakers Mission International
167	Manjari	Wildlife Institute of India
168	K. J. Joy	Independent Researcher
169	Dr Javed Malick	Academic (Retired, Delhi University)
170	Praful Kumar	University of Rostock
171	Urvashi Nakul	IIT Madras
172	Debangshu Mukherjee	IIT Kanpur
173	Procheta Mallik	Innovation and Science Promotion Foundation
174	Amiya Bagchi	Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
175	Pratik Majumdar	SINP, Kolkata
176	Dianthe Basak	Université Paris Cité
177	Arul Shankar	University of Toronto
178	Rajat Hazra	Leiden University
179	Shilpaa Anand	BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus
180	Sabarna	IIT Kharagpur
181	Ravi Kiran Jain	PUCL
182	Naveen Gaur	University of Delhi
183	Ahmed Shabin KK	BITS-Pilani Hyderabad campus
184	Sandeshika	Unaffiliated
185	Jyotsna Jha	CBPS
186	Sushrut Jadhav	University College London, UK
187	Jinia Ghosh	IIT Gandhinagar
188	Adity Sharma	BITS-Pilani
189	Supratik Chakraborty	IIT Bombay
190	Vinay Sankar	Independent scholar
191	K V Subrahmanyam	Chennai Mathematical Institute
192	Souradeep Sengupta	Ashoka University
193	Venkatesh Athreya	Professor of Economics (Retired from Bharathidasan University)
194	Harita R.	Stockholm University, Sweden
195	Sushmita Venugopalan	Institute of Mathematical Sciences
196	Sruthy Murali	Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
197	Soumangsu Chakraborty	IPhT, CEA, Paris-Saclay
198	Suhani Gupta	Center for Theoretical Physics, Poland
199	Rahul Pandey	Visiting faculty, IIM Lucknow and IIM Udaipur
200	Indira C	Public Health Researcher, Delhi
201	Hanna Ameena M A	University of Calicut
202	Vaishali Bhaumik	NCBS
203	Harish Karnick	IIT Kanpur
204	Nirupam Roy	Indian Institute of Science
205	Sayantan GHosal	University of Glasgow
206	Sankalp Choudhuri	ESO Garching
207	Monideepa Maity	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
208	Nidhi Rathi	Aarhus University, Denmark
209	Subhadip Bouri	IISc
210	Enakshi Bhattacharya	IIT Madras
211	Jean Dreze	Ranchi University
212	Ankit Toshniwal	Tata Institute of Social sciences Batch of 2016-2018
213	Suresh Govindarajan	IIT Madras
214	Manu Akavoor	IoP, Bhubaneswar
215	Ashwin Viswanathan	Nature Conservation Foundation
216	S Subramanian	Independent Scholar
217	Aurnab Ghose	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune
218	Saumia Pandiat	Independent Researcher
219	Mudasir Yatoo	Imperial College London
220	Adwait Gaikwad	Tel Aviv University
221	Arpan Kundu	IMSc, Chennai
222	Gaganjot	IIT Kanpur
223	Somakraj Banerjee	Jadavpur University
224	Proteep Mallik	Azim Premji University
225	Thapasya Vijayan	University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
226	Anirban Kundu	University of Calcutta
227	Ayan Banerjee	IISER Kolkata
228	Mohd Ibrahim	Max Planck Institute
229	Manoer Hossain	NISER, Jatni, Bhubaneswar INDIA
230	Urmila	Jagriti Bal Vikas Samiti
231	Tabasum Rahnuma	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
232	Pratik Rath	University Santa barbara
233	Anirban Mukherjee	S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
234	Tanmay Bhore	University of Leeds
235	Aditi Dudeja	Rutgers University
236	Chitra R	Azim Premji University
237	S Raghunandana	Kannada poet, playwright, stage-director
238	Padma	Women Indian Association
239	Khushboo Dixit	CAPP, University of Johannesburg
240	Sk Sazim	SAS, Bratislava
241	Ashik H	ICTS Bengaluru
242	Sulochana	Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
243	Bhargavi S.Rao	Environment Support Group
244	Debaditya Bhattacharya	Kazi Nazrul University
245	Md Mahafujur Rahaman	CNCI
246	Manas Geeta Arun	The University of Edinburgh
247	M Sreedhara Murthy	Retired professor of psychology I
248	ABHIJIT CHAKRABORTY	The University of Burdwan
249	Prahar Mitra	University of Cambridge
250	Subhashis Banerjee	Ashoka University and IIT Delhi
251	J. Sreenivasa Murthy	Rtd Samskrt Teacher, MES College, Bengaluru
252	Shivarama Padikkal	University of Hyderabad (RTD)
253	Prabhakara k s	Govt service
254	Guruprasad Kar	Indian Statistical Institute
255	Saikat Ghosh	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
256	Kesari Haravoo	Independent Filmmaker
257	Mahuya Datta	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
258	G Sivaramakrishnan	Grama Seva Sangha
259	Himanshu M	Karnataka Medical Research Foundation
260	Nagaragere Ramesh	Retired
261	Anwesha Maharana	KU Leuven, Belgium
262	Aradhana Sharma	Wesleyan University
263	Sumit Kumar	Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
264	Nalini Nayak	Retired from Delhi University
265	Avik Ghosh	IACS
266	Prem Kumar Vijayan	Hindu College, Delhi University
267	Deepankar Basu	UMass Amherst
268	Raghavan Rangarajan	Ahmedabad
269	Arun	విరసం
270	Rohit Varman	University of Birmingham
271	Pratik Ashok Jadhav	Indian Institute of Science.
272	Vineeta Bal	IISER, Pune
273	Atreyi Dasgupta	Baylor College of Medicine
274	Titas Dutta	Birati Samuho Performers Collective
275	Atreyi Dasgupta	Baylor College of Medicine
276	​​Subhayan Sahu	Perimeter Institute
277	K Ramesh Kumar	GITAM University, Vizag
278	Shubha Tewari	University of Massachusetts
279	Roopa Dhawan	Retired from Delhi University
280	Gargi Banerjee	Birati Samuho Performers Collective
281	Samar Bagchi	Retired from NCSM, GOI
282	Arun	GT&TC
283	Shailendra Chaubey	University of Glasgow
284	Sanjit Chatterjee	IISc
285	Jay Desai	University of Southern California
286	Poulami Chakraborty	Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
287	Dvij Mankad	Weizmann Institute of Science
288	P A Azeez	Independent Researcher
289	D C V Mallik	Indian lnstitute of Astrophysics
290	Kamal Lodaya	Institute of Mathematical Sciences ( Retired)
291	Ahamadullah Khan	IISER KOLKATA
292	Suryans	Raman Research Institute
293	Md Sabir Ali	IISER Kolkata
294	Rahul Nigam	BITS Hyderabad
295	Rakesh Ankit	Loughborough University
296	Samantha Agarwal	Johns Hopkins University
297	Sandeep Kumar Kataria	SJTU
298	Shiva Chidambaram	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
299	Aniket Basu	Vidyasagar College
300	Sumegha Premchandar	Michigan State University
301	Abdul Rahaman Shaikh	Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia
302	Arun Kumar Dutta	Elevation Cultural Forum
303	Kunal Pandey	Centre For Theoretical Physics, JMI
304	Arun	VIRASAM
305	Manik Banik	SNBNCBS
306	Urmila	JAGRITI BAL VIKAS SAMITI
307	Akshit Goyal	Massachusettts Institute of Technology
308	Rachana Bhave	University of Virginia
309	SUBIMAN KUNDU	Former Professor, IIT Delhi, India
310	Shouvik Mukherjee	University of Maryland, College Park
311	Sathya Prakash Varanashi	Sathya Consultants
312	Karen Gabriel	St Stephen’s College
313	Kishore Gopalakrishnan	IUCAA
314	Durgesh	Johns Hopkins University
315	Krishna Hanumanthu	Chennai Mathematical Institute
316	Lionel Fernandes	Retired ( University of Mumbai)
317	Sanjay Kumar Misra	R.B.S. College, Agra
318	Ghanshyam Shah	Former Professor, JNU, New Delhi
319	V S sreedhara	Bangalore City university, Bangalore
320	Kunal Chattopadhyay	Jadavpur University
321	K. G. Arun	CMI
322	Anustup Basu	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
323	Sunita Viswanath	Hindus for Human Rights
324	Ramya Vijaya	Stockton University
325	Manjunatha L Badiger	Theater artist
326	Cedric Prakash	Justice snd Peace Activist
327	Sukanta Bhattacharya	University of Calcutta
328	Chalapathy R	Classical kannada study centre
329	Dr.G.Vijay	University of Hyderabad
330	Pramod Ranjan	Assam University
331	Sourav Roy	Syracuse University
332	Ananth Shankar	UW Madison
333	Aaditeshwar Seth	IIT Delhi
334	Achin Vanaik	Retd. Professor, University of Delhi
335	Malini Ranganathan	American University, Washington, DC
336	Dipankar	Treelabs foundation
337	Dr. Cameron Ahmad	IIT, Delhi
338	Vijay P	South Asian Dalit Adivasi Network, Canada(SADAN)
339	Shrikrishna G. Dani	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Retired)
340	Arnab Rai Choudhuri	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
341	Anish Bhattacharya	Indian Institute of Science
342	Subho	Somuho Collective
343	Riddhi Shah	JNU New Delhi
344	Arya Thampi	Cambridge University Press and Assessment
345	Aparna Sundar	Independent Scholar
346	Srinath Jagannathan	Indian Institute of Management Indore
347	Swagata Sarkar	CEBS, Mumbai
348	Tazeen	Justice For All
349	Ashish George	The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
350	Somnath Basu	IISER Kolkata
351	Minoo Gundevia	CERAS
352	Nilay Kundu	IIT Kanpur
353	Saubhik Bandyopadhyay	Durgapur Government College
354	Lotika Singha	Independent Writer
355	Narayanaswamy	Poet and writer
356	Debraj Chakrabarti	Central Michigan University
357	Rama Krishna	Ambedkar International Center
358	Rupam Karmakar	ISI Kolkata
359	Sajee Gopal	Fresh Perspectives
360	Nishant Gupta	IMSc
361	Mira Johri	Université de Montréal
362	Abhinav Deshpande	Caltech/IBM
363	Rupal	CUNY
364	Ishan Mata	Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi Center)
365	Prashant Kocherlakota	BHI, Harvard University
366	biswajit sarkar	BOKU, Vienna
367	Nissim Kanekar	National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
368	Rahul Varma	Playwright
369	Bhaskar Mitra	Microsoft Research
370	Surya Teja Gavva	Rutgers University
371	Palash Baran Pal	University of Calcutta
372	Debasis Sengupta	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
373	Mahesh Agarwal	University of Michigan
374	priyanka	University of Cambridge
375	Nilanjan Bondyopadhaya	Visva Bharati Univeristy
376	Koushik Dutta	IISER Kolkata
377	Ganesh	FSHM
378	Shivprasad Patil	IISER Pune
379	S. Akshay	IIT Bombay
380	Harsha Tirumala	Rutgers University
381	Baisakhi Banerjee	Self Employed
382	Subhadipa Das	Harimohan Ghose College,Kolkata
383	Raghavendra Nyshadham	Harish-Chandra Research Institute
384	Pallavi Bhat	ICTS
385	Timir Basu	Frontier
386	Ashok	IIT KANPUR
387	Ramani Atkuri	Independent Public Health Consultant
388	Ritabrata Bhattacharya	Utah State University
389	Aravind	Independent Researcher
390	Arpita Mitra	POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
391	Jayarshi Bhattacharya	S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
392	Aaditya Ramdas	Carnegie Mellon University
393	Sibasish Ghosh	The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
394	Uzma Shaikh	HBCSE (TIFR), Mumbai
395	M. R. Nandan	Retired
396	Irfan Qayoom	IIT Kanpur
397	Rajendran Narayanan	Azim Premji University
398	Jyotishman Bhowmick	Indian Statistical Institute
399	Arnav Gupta	Cornell University
400	Mritiunjoy Mohanty	IIM Calcutta
401	Supriya Chaudhuri	Jadavpur University
402	Avideep Mukherjee	IIT Kanpur
403	Ramesh Varma	Sree Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala
404	Sugata Ray	IACS
405	Rohan D’Souza	Kyoto University (Japan)
406	Abritty Kisku	Indian institute of Science
407	Aratrika	IIA
408	Tarun K. Chandrayadula	IIT Madras
409	Ritumbra Manuvie	University of Groningen
410	Marwa Abdul Razak	IISER Tirupati
411	Partha Pratim Ray	Jadavpur University
412	Rajni Palriwala	former Professor of Sociology at the University of Delhi
413	Jayashree Ramadas	Independent consultant
414	Asif Abdullah	Presidency University
415	Ananya Mukherjee	Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
416	T Toll	IIT Delhi
417	Abha Dev Habib	Miranda House, University of Delhi
418	Siddhartha Ghosh	IIT Bombay
419	Judhajeet Basu	Indian Institute of Astrophysics
420	Satyam Varma	Independent journalist, Secretary Rahul Foundation
421	Amit Bhaduri	Jawaharlal Nehru University and Pavia University, Italy(retd)
422	Anantharaman S V	Ashoka University
423	Ritabrata Ghosh	IISER Kolkata
424	Gaiti Hasan	NCBS, TIFR
425	Sohini Dutta	Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur
426	Romar Correa	formerly University of Mumbai
427	Rishabh Thakkar	Indian institute of science
428	Sunil Aggarwal	University of Washington
429	Aneesh Correa	Activist
430	Pratap Antony	None
431	INDU AGNIHOTRI	independent researcher
432	Geetam Tiwari	IIT delhi
433	Subhasis Bandyopadhyay	IIEST, Shibpur
434	Dilip Menon	University of Witwatersrand
435	Gopal. S	IGCAR
436	Anita Banerjee	IISER Tirupati
437	Dileep Jatkar	HRI, Allahabad
438	Vikram Vyas	Independent Scientist
439	Dhiman Chatterjee	IITM
440	Kaustav Banerjee	Ambedkar University Delhi
441	Adwait Madkaikar	Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati campus
442	Althaf	IIT Madras
443	Sandhya Srinivasan	Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
444	Indrajit Roy	University of York
445	Vasantha Bannadi	Retired Professor
446	Sanjay Kumar	St Stephen’s College, Delhi University
447	Basabendu Barman	University of Warsaw
448	Manoj Puravankara	TIFR, Mumbai
449	Sanjay Saha	JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
450	Maanvi	University of Amsterdam
451	ROMIT BOSE	Individual
452	Fazlay Ahmed	OSGU Hisar
453	Srila Roy	University of the Witwatersrand
454	JANAKI NAIR	Retd JNU
455	Anoosha Gopinath	Independent
456	Cyril	Treelabs Foundation
457	Sanna Gull	National Tsing Hua University
458	Dr Shakeel	IDPD
459	Vamsi Preetam M	IIT Kanpur
460	Snehalata Sahu	University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
461	Kartikeya kumar	University of Edinburgh
462	Prasad Basu	Cotton University
463	Yashasva Jain	Symbiosis institute of design
464	Samrat Sen	KU Leuven
465	Shobha Naresh	University of Hyderabad
466	Nandini Sundar	Delhi University
467	Arnab Sengupta	Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research Kolkata
468	Indrajit Mitra	University of Calcutta
469	Sudipta Modak	IIT Kanpur
470	Sudeshna Banerjee	Jadavpur University
471	Mallar Ray	Tecnologico de Monterrey
472	Dania	University of Glasgow
473	Fahad Ahmad	Toronto Metropolitan University
474	Alpa Shah	London School of Economics
475	K Nagaraj	Asian College of Journalism
476	Subhaditya Bhattacharya	IIT Guwahati
477	Vathsala Narasimhan	University of Hyderabad (Retired)
478	Amit R. Baishya	University of Oklahoma
479	Shyam Narayan Singh Yadav	NTHU, Taiwan
480	Shibasish Chowdhury	Birla Institute of Technology and Science
481	Aritra Bandyopadhyay	Heidelberg University
482	Balaji Narasimhan	Independent
483	Debamalya Dutta	National Institute of Science Education and Research
484	Ashok Prasad	Colorado State University
485	Sujay Ashok	Institute of Mathematical Sciences
486	Nikita Sud	Oxford University
487	Rajita Menon	Boston University
488	Jyotsna Dani	University of Mumbai (Retired)
489	Soumen Ghosh	ISI Kolkata
490	Priyanka Kumari	Kent State University, Ohio
491	Srilata Gangulee	University of Pennsylvania
492	Sudin Bhattacharya	Michigan State University
493	Avinash Pandey	University of Mumbai
494	Abha SUR	MIT
495	Abhishek De	University of Birmingham
496	Binoy	ETH Zurich
497	Shobha Madan	IIT Kanpur Retired
498	Aritra Konar	IISER Kolkata
499	Pradeepkumar Yadav	Thakur College of Engineering and Technology
500	Tiasa	IIT Kanpur
501	Chukka Srinivas	San Jose
502	Avijeet	Indian Institute of Science
503	Deepak Choudhary	Tell Aviv
504	Samuel Asir Raj	Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli
505	varun narayanan	Technion, Israel
506	Devi	IIM Calcutta
507	Ananda Lal	Retired, Jadavpur University
508	Souvik Banerjee	University of Würzburg
509	Anindya “Rana” Sinha	National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
510	Prathiba Batley	University of Louisville
511	Sunil Reddy Kunduru	Indian Institute of Management Amritsar
512	Surbhi Shrivastava	Emory University
513	Madhusudhan Naik	University of Zurich
514	Sourav Das	James Cook University
515	Samata Biswas	The Sanskrit College and University
516	Sudipta Sarkar	IIT Gandhinagar
517	Prerana Biswas	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
518	Ziyad Thekkayil	IISER Pune
519	Sudesh Ghoderao	Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations (FIRA) and Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmulan Samiti (MANS)
520	Sushant Kumar	Indian Institute of Astrophysics
521	Kaushik Bhattacharya	IIT Kanpur
522	Rajendra Phegade	Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti