Letter to IISc Director

30 June 2023

Prof. Govindan Rangarajan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Dear Prof. Rangarajan,

We are a group of scientists and academics. Our group includes members of IISc, alumni and well-wishers of IISc from other institutions.

We are writing to express our dismay at the actions taken by the IISc administration to stop a discussion on the “Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Prisons and the Criminal Justice System” that was to be led by Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita on 28 June. 

We understand that this event was initially planned as a talk at the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE)  that had been approved by the CCE chair.   On 27 June, the Registrar of IISc abruptly canceled permission for the talk. This led the student-organizers of the event to replace the talk with an informal interaction outside the Sarvam complex. At this point, the administration dispatched members of the security team to disperse this informal gathering. It was only after the intervention of members of the IISc faculty that the security team backtracked. 

Natasha and Devangana are activists who participated in the movement against  the Citizenship Amendment Act. In 2020, they were arrested under the UAPA and accused of being part of a “larger conspiracy” in the Delhi riots case.  However, while releasing them on bail, the Delhi High court noted that “in its anxiety to suppress dissent …  the State has blurred the line between the constitutionally guaranteed ‘right to protest’ and ‘terrorist activity’. If such blurring gains traction, democracy would be in peril.” Their bail was recently upheld by the Supreme Court.

We believe that it is important for members of IISc to hear about Natasha and Devangana’s experience and to reflect on the laws that were used to incarcerate them. Regardless of one’s perspective, such discussions are crucial in a functioning democracy and IISc, as  an academic institution,  is ideally positioned to host them. Conversely, if the institute is unwilling to permit peaceful discussions on constitutional questions, it is hard to see how it can foster a spirit of critical inquiry that is necessary for scientific work. 

The actions of the administration reflect poorly on its commitment to upholding academic freedom and democratic values. They have damaged IISc’s reputation, both within the country and internationally. We hope that you will take urgent corrective measures and ensure that members of IISc remain free to express and discuss a range of ideas, both about science, and about the society that we live in.

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.

	Position	Institution	Position
1	Suvrat Raju	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences	Faculty
2	Alok Laddha	Chennai Mathematical Institute	Faculty
3	Samriddhi Sankar Ray	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences	Faculty
4	Rahul Varman	Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur)	Faculty
5	Vaibhav Vaish	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (Mohali)	Faculty
6	Ravinder Banyal	Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Faculty
7	Vinod John	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
8	Venu Madhav Govindu	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
9	Sanjit Chatterjee	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
10	Sumilan Banerjee	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
11	Shairik Sengupta	IISC	Student
12	Ashik H	ICTS	Student
13	Ashley Tellis	Independent Researcher	Other
14	Avideep Mukherjee	IIT Kanpur	Student
15	Suchetan Das	IISC	Postdoctoral fellow
16	Ananyo Maitra	CNRS and CY Cergy Paris Universite	Faculty
17	Arshed Nabeel	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru	Student
18	Umang Bhat	Indian Institute of Science	Student
19	RWIK DHARMAPAL BANERJEE	UNIVERSITY OF WROCLAW	Student
20	Biswajit Sarkar	BOKU, Vienna	Postdoctoral fellow
21	Pratik Roy	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Postdoctoral fellow
22	Sourav Roychowdhury	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS)	Postdoctoral fellow
23	Parameswaran Ajith	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences	Faculty
24	Rahul Siddharthan	The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Faculty
25	Sayid Mondal	CYCU, Taiwan	Postdoctoral fellow
26	Pranav Minasandra	Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany	Student
27	Manoj Puravankara	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	Faculty
28	Prateek Sharma	IISc	Faculty
29	Amber Habib	Shiv Nadar IoE	Faculty
30	Mamta	Indian Institute of Technology kanpur	Student
31	Parthapratim Mahapatra	Chennai Mathematical Institute	Student
32	Surjadipta De Sarkar	Indian Institute of Science	Student
33	Vinod Vyasulu	Retired	Faculty
34	Anindya Sinha	National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore	Faculty
35	Dibyajyoti Chakravarti	TCG CREST, Kolkata	Postdoctoral fellow
36	Bodhayan Roy	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Faculty
37	Nissim Kanekar	National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune	Faculty
38	Chandan Dalawat	HRI (retd)	Faculty
39	Edwin Lobo	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Student
40	Swastik C	Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Student
41	Sandeep Kumar Kataria	SJTU	Postdoctoral fellow
42	Riddhi Shah	JNU	Faculty
43	Rana Barua	Indian Statistical Institute	Other
44	Partha Pratim Roy	Center for Physics Education Research Kolkata	Faculty
45	Arpan Kundu	IMSC, Chennai	Student
46	Sayali Bhatkar	TIFR	Postdoctoral fellow
47	Aritra Chatterjee	Indian Institute of Science	Student
48	Writabrata Bhattacharya	IIM CALCUTTA	Student
49	Varun Sahni	IUCAA	Other
50	Aradhita Chattopadhyaya	Dublin institute for advanced studies	Postdoctoral fellow
51	Sudipta Bandyopadhyay	University of Calcutta	Faculty
52	Saptarshi Paul	IIT Kanpur	Student
53	Agnivo Sarkar	HRI Allahabad	Postdoctoral fellow
54	Inzemamul Haque	IIT Kanpur	Postdoctoral fellow
55	Pratik Jadhav	IISc	Student
56	Om Damani	IIT Bombay	Faculty
57	Himanshu Badhani	IMSc Chennai	Student
58	Sumathi Rao	International Centre For Theoretical Sciences	Faculty
59	Sumantra Sarkar	IISc	Faculty
60	B Ananthanarayan	Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
61	Arup Kumar Sen	Serampore College	Other
62	Saptarshi Mandal	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Faculty
63	Raghavendra Nyshadham	Harish-Chandra Research Institute	Faculty
64	BOBBY EZHUTHACHAN	RKMVERI	Faculty
65	Tanmoy Bera	IISc	Student
66	K. J. Joy	Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)	Other
67	Alokmay Datta	University of Calcutta	Other
68	Dr.Suhas Kolhekar	National Alliance of People’s Movements(NAPM)	Other
69	R Srinivasan Prof (Retd)	IIM Bangalore	Faculty
70	Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay	IISER Mohali (opinion is personal)	Faculty
71	Kalyan Kundu	Retd.professor Institute of Physics BBS 751005	Other
72	Adhip Agarwala	IIT Kanpur	Faculty
73	Vivek Kumar Mehta	Tezpur University	Faculty
74	Saumav Kapoor	ICTS	Student
75	Ishan Agarwal	TWF, Mumbai	Other
76	Omkar Shetye	ICTS	Student
77	Saikat Ghosh	IIT-K	Faculty
78	Ranjan Laha	IISc	Faculty
79	Sarbajaya Kundu	University of Florida	Postdoctoral fellow
80	Jaydeep Kumar Basak	National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan	Postdoctoral fellow
81	Suranjan Sinha	Independent researcher, former Delhi University academic.	Other
82	Swagato K. Ray	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Faculty
83	Utsav	ISI, Kolkata	Faculty
84	Kishor Govinda	SJRI	Other
85	Diptarup Nandi	National Institute of Biomedical Genomics	Postdoctoral fellow
86	Koushik Dutta	IISER, Kolkata	Faculty
87	Aditya Kumar Sharma	ICTS	Student
88	H Singh	IIIT	Faculty
89	Subroto Mukerjee	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru	Faculty
90	Abhishek Dhar	ICTS-TIFR	Faculty
91	Sriram ganeshan	Ccny	Faculty
92	Sharad Lele	ATREE	Faculty
93	Rohini Balakrishnan	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
94	Ranjini Bandyopadhyay	Raman Research Institute	Faculty
95	Kapil	IISc	Student
96	Rumi	University of Calcutta	Student
97	Nilanjan Bondyopadhaya	Visva-Bharati University	Faculty
98	Aniket Sule	HBCSE-TIFR	Faculty
99	Navin Kashyap	IISc	Faculty
100	Swagato Chatterjee	Queen Mary University of London	Faculty
101	Malabika Majumdar	Retd from DU	Faculty
102	Yadavindu Ajit	IGIDR, Mumbai	Student
103	Anupama Potluri	University of Hyderabad	Faculty
104	Imrankhan	IISER Pune	Student
105	SABANA SHABNAM	Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata	Postdoctoral fellow
106	DURGA PRASAD DUVVURI	Professional self employed	Other
107	Vinayak Raj	IIT Kanpur	Student
108	Abu Anand	University of Toronto	Student
109	Brinda Adige	Ananya Mahila Okkutta	Other
110	Vineeta Bal	IISER, Pune	Faculty
111	Abhijit Majumder	IIT Bombay	Faculty
112	N D Hari Dass	IMSc Chennai	Other
113	Dvij Mankad	Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel	Student
114	Madhusudhan Raman	Delhi University	Faculty
115	Rohan D’Souza	Kyoto University	Faculty
116	Arnab Rai Choudhuri	IISc	Faculty
117	Sunil Mukhi	CERN, Geneva	Other
118	Debjani Sengupta	IP College, DU	Faculty
119	Mudasir Yatoo	Imperial College London	Postdoctoral fellow
120	Sreedevi R	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Postdoctoral fellow
121	Subir Sarkar	University of Oxford	Faculty
122	Virendra Singh	IIT Bombay	Faculty
123	Jyotirmoy	BGI, Bayreuth	Postdoctoral fellow
124	Aurnab Ghose	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune	Faculty
125	Debrup Chakraborty	Indian Statistical Institute	Faculty
126	Biswajit Nag	TIFR, Mumbai	Student
127	Kuldeep Kumar Pal	National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar	Student
128	SUBIMAN KUNDU	Retired Professor from IIT Delhi	Other
129	Dwiji Guru	The Millet Foundation; Alumnus of Univ. of B’luru, Mysuru, Minnesota	Other
130	Nirupam Roy	IISc	Faculty
131	K Subramaniam	HBCSE, TIFR	Faculty
132	Debashis Ghoshal	JNU New Delhi	Faculty
133	Manu Akavoor	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Postdoctoral fellow
134	Sanjib Sabhapandit	Raman Research Institute	Faculty
135	Kinjal Banerjee	BITS Goa	Faculty
136	Kala G Pradeep	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali	Other
137	Deepak Malghan	IIM Bangalore	Faculty
138	Bittu K R	Ashoka University	Faculty
139	Shashank	NISER Bhubaneswar	Postdoctoral fellow
140	Subhojoy Gupta	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
141	Bala Iyer	ICTS-TIFR	Other
142	Subhro Bhattacharjee	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences	Faculty
143	Manjunath Krishnapur	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
144	Shashank Saumya	NISER	Student
145	Satyaki	IISER K	Faculty
146	Ankan Paul	IACS	Faculty
147	Narayanan Srinivasan	IIT Kanpur	Faculty
148	S Akshay	IIT Bombay	Faculty
149	Koel Das	IISER K	Faculty
150	Pratik Majumdar	SINP	Faculty
151	Prakriti PalChoudhury	University of Oxford	Postdoctoral fellow
152	Navdeep Mathur	INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT Ahmedabad	Faculty
153	Nilotpal	IIT BOMBAY	Other
154	Siddhartha Ghosh	IIT Bombay	Faculty
155	Sthitadhi Roy	ICTS-TIFR	Faculty
156	Pradeep Kumar Seshadri	University of Iowa	Postdoctoral fellow
157	Priyadarshi Paul	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences	Student
158	Tanmoy Das	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
159	Gautam Menon	Ashoka University	Faculty
160	Dr. Amar Jesani	Independent Researcher and Teacher	Other
161	Ravi Chellam	Metastring Foundation	Other
162	Umesh Srinivasan	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
163	Soumyadeep Mondal	IISc Bangalore	Student
164	Gaiti Hasan	NCBS, TIFR	Other
165	Anindya Das	Indian Institute of Sceince	Faculty
166	Anubha	IIM BANGALORE	Faculty
167	Avijeet Kulshrestha	IISc Bangalore	Student
168	Anwesha Saha	Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences	Student
169	Animesh Nanda	NA (Industry)	Other
170	Rajat Tandon	University of Hyderabad (retd)	Other
171	Sabyasachi Chatterjee	Retired, Indian Institute of Astrphysics	Other
172	Subham Dutta Chowdhury	University of Chicago	Postdoctoral fellow
173	Chandan Dasgupta	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
174	Sandeep Pandey	Socialist Party (India)	Other
175	Srikanth Sastry	JNCASR	Faculty
176	Deepak	IIT Kanpur	Faculty
177	Supratim Sengupta	IISER Kolkata	Faculty
178	Reeteka Sud	NIMHANS, Bangalore	Other
179	Ramachandra Guha	Former Faculty, Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
180	Niveditha	NA	Other
181	Ira Raja	University of Delhi	Faculty
182	Prof. S. C. Lakhotia	Banaras Hindu University	Faculty
183	Bhavtosh Bansal	IISER Kolkata	Faculty
184	Dr.Mohan Rao	Former professor at JNU, New Delhi	Faculty
185	sreangsu acharyya	Microsoft	Other
186	Sudeb Ranjan Datta	Astronomical Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences	Postdoctoral fellow
187	Prabhu Nott	IISc	Faculty
188	Anand Zachariah	Christian Medical College Vellore	Faculty
189	Mohini Mullick	IITKanpur Fellow and retired Professor	Faculty
190	Godwin Martin	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences	Student
191	Kartik Sreedhar	Washington State University	Student
192	R Ramanujam	Azim Premji University	Other
193	Aniket Basu	Vidyasagar College, Kolkata	Faculty
194	Basit Yousuf	University of Ottawa	Postdoctoral fellow
195	Probal Dasgupta	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Other
196	Jay Desai	University of Southern California	Faculty
197	Amit Singh	iIT Bombay	Faculty
198	Indranil	OP Jindal Global University	Faculty
199	S. Raghunandana	I am a Kannada poet, playwright and stage director	Other
200	Krishna Telikicherla Kumar	Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore	Other
201	Parameswaran Sankaran	Chennai Mathematical Institute	Faculty
202	Nishant Gupta	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Student
203	chitra	azim premji university	Other
204	Ravi Mazumdar	University of Waterloo	Faculty
205	Ankur Srivastav	SNBNCBS, Kolkata	Student
206	Seema Kulkarni	SOPPECOM	Other
207	Naveen Surendran	IIST, Trivandrum	Faculty
208	sharmila	IIT Bombay	Faculty
209	Anirban Kar	University of Delhi	Faculty
210	Prashant Kocherlakota	Harvard University	Postdoctoral fellow
211	Naresh Dadhich	IUCAA	Faculty
212	Rajluxmi V Murthy	IIM Bangalore	Faculty
213	Svati Shah	University of Massachusetts	Faculty
214	Cynthia Stephen	Nil	Other
215	Proteep Mallik	Azim Premji University	Faculty
216	Ashoke Sen	ICTS	Faculty
217	Diptiman Sen	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Faculty
218	Ashish B George	Broad institute of MIT and Harvard	Other
219	Siddharth Ramachandran	Boston University	Faculty
220	Vijaya V	S J V Foundation	Other
221	Rama Govindarajan	ICTS	Faculty
222	M G Devasahayam	IAS (Retd)	Other
223	S. M. Srivastava	Formerly of ISI and IACS	Other
224	Sukanta Bhattacharya	University of Calcutta	Faculty
225	T.A. Abinandanan	Indian Institute of Science	Faculty
226	Nilay Kundu	IIT Kanpur	Faculty
227	Rahul Nigam	BITS Hyderabad	Faculty
228	Harish C Karnick	IIT Kanpur	Other
229	Chukka Srinivas	IISc Alumni	Other
230	Anwesh Bhattacharya	ESPCI Paris	Student
231	Parananda Majumdar	Ashoka University	Student
232	Ayesha Kidwai	JNU	Faculty
233	Balpreet Kaur	NCRA-TIFR	Student
234	Jaikumar Radhakrishnan	TIFR	Faculty
235	Amit Baishya	University of Oklahoma	Faculty
236	Abritty Kisku	Indian Institute of Science	Student
237	Rohit Varman	University of Birmingham	Faculty
238	Subhadip Bouri	IISc Bangalore	Student
239	Subhashis Banerjee	An alumnus	Faculty
240	Arindam Roy	BITS Pilani	Faculty
241	Ahamadullah Khan	IISER Kolkata	Student
242	Kunjal Parnami	IISER Pune	Student
243	Dilip Menon	University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg	Faculty
244	G Sivaramakrishnan	Vidya ashram Sarnath varanasi	Other
245	Rishabh Thakkar	IISc	Other
246	Ayan Banerjee	IISER Kolkata	Faculty
247	Guruprasad Kar	Indian Statistical Institute	Faculty
248	Keerti Pandey	IISc	Student
249	Deepak Kapur	the University of New Mexico	Faculty
250	M. R. Nandan	Retired teacher	Other
251	Debasis Sengupta	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Faculty
252	Abhishek De	University of Birmingham	Postdoctoral fellow
253	Priyanka	SNBNCBS Kolkata	Other
254	Daniel Thadikonda	Indian Institute of Science	Other
255	Subhasis Bandyopadhyay	IIEST, Shibpur	Faculty
256	Rajita Menon	Boston University	Other
257	Ravi Duggal	Independent Researcher	Other
258	Menhadi Hasan	IISc Bangalore	Other
259	Sanchari Pal	IIT Kanpur	Student
260	Amit Bhaduri	JNU, New Delhi.	Faculty
261	Irfan	University of Illinois Chicago	Postdoctoral fellow
262	S Subramanian	Economist and Independent Researcher	Other
263	Elchuri Muralidhara Rao	S.V. College (DU)	Faculty
264	Rupam	ISI, Kolkata	Postdoctoral fellow
265	Supriya Chaudhuri	Jadavpur University	Faculty
266	MAIDUL ISLAM	CSSSC	Faculty
267	Ashok Dohare	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Other
268	Saumen Datta	TIFR	Faculty
269	Subhaditya Bhattacharya	IIT GUWAHATI	Faculty
270	Jean Dreze	Ranchi University	Other
271	Suchitra	IIT Kanpur	Faculty
272	Arnab Priya Saha	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal	Postdoctoral fellow
273	Debaditya Bhattacharya	Kazi Nazrul University	Faculty
274	Soumitro Banerjee	IISER Kolkata	Faculty
275	Snehalata Sahu	University of Warwick, UK	Postdoctoral fellow
276	Jayvardhan Pandit	BioPharmaWorks LLC	Other
277	Ishan Mata	Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi Center)	Postdoctoral fellow
278	Vivek	Independent	Other
279	Soumyadeep Chaudhuri	Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium	Postdoctoral fellow
280	Sumegha Premchandar	Michigan State University	Student
281	Sibasish Ghosh	The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Faculty
282	Shubha Patvardhan	IIM-Bangalore	Faculty
283	Vimalraj A	HBCSE, TIFR	Student
284	Nalini Nayak	PGDAV (M) College, Delhi University	Other
285	Soumen Ghosh	ISI Kolkata	Student
286	Abha Sur	MIT	Faculty
287	Debades Bandyopadhyay	Aliah University, Kolkata	Other
288	Shivani Upadhyaya	University of California, Berkeley	Postdoctoral fellow
289	Reetika Khera	IIT Delhi	Faculty
290	Anirban Roy	Cornell University	Postdoctoral fellow
291	Sumeet Agarwal	IIT Delhi	Faculty
292	S.P. Rajaguru	Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Faculty
293	Santanu Das	Imperial College London	Postdoctoral fellow
294	Ashok	IIT Kanpur	Student
295	Shreekumar S.	Sangatya, Udupi	Other
296	S. Krishnaswamy	Retired Ex Madurai Kamaraj University	Other
297	Prajit K Basu	Unaffiliated	Other
298	Aratrika	Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Student
299	Tanmay	IISER M	Student
300	N Gautham	University of Madras	Other
301	Jayadev Athreya	University of Washington	Faculty
302	Indraneel Dasgupta	Indian Statistical Institute	Faculty
303	Somnath Basu	IISER Kolkata	Faculty
304	Surya Teja Gavva	Rutgers University	Student
305	Amitabha Lahiri	SNBose	Faculty
306	Shouvik Ganguly	Samsung Research America	Other
307	Vibhor Singh	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore	Faculty
308	Bhaskaran Raman	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	Faculty
309	Shyamalendu Majumdar	Retried	Other
310	Pronobesh Maity	ICTS-TIFR	Student
311	Ramchandra Phawade	IIT Dharwad	Faculty
312	Sankalp Tiwari	IIT Hyderabad	Postdoctoral fellow
313	Jyotishman Bhowmick	Indian Statistical Institute	Faculty
314	Anita Banerjee	IISER Tirupati	Student
315	Ronak M Soni	University of Cambridge	Postdoctoral fellow
316	Anup Sahay	Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad	Other
317	Balaji Narasimhan	Independent	Other
318	Abhigyan hazarika	Indian Institute of Science	Student
319	Atish Dabholkar	International Centre for Theoretical Physics	Faculty
320	Ananth Shankar	Northwestern University	Faculty
321	Surojit Dalui	Indian Statistical Institution Kolkata	Postdoctoral fellow
322	Sayantan Ghosal	University of Glasgow	Faculty
323	Apoorva Nagar	Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology	Faculty
324	Maumita Bandyopadhyay	University of Calcutta	Faculty
325	rohan poojary	TU Wien	Postdoctoral fellow
326	Sabarna Palit	IIT Kharagpur	Student
327	Suman Kundu	Weizmann Institute of Science	Postdoctoral fellow
328	Rajan Kurai Krishnan	Ambedkar University Delhi	Faculty
329	Saumya Chakrabarti	Visva-Bharati Santiniketan	Faculty
330	Ramya Vijaya	Stockton University, New Jersey, USA	Faculty
331	Pratik Rath	UC Santa Barbara	Postdoctoral fellow
332	Karen Gabriel	St Stephen’s College	Faculty
333	M. V. Ramana	University of British Columbia, Vancouver	Faculty
334	Peggy Mohan	Ashoka University, Delhi	Faculty
335	Dhiman Chatterjee	IITM	Faculty
336	Subhayan Sahu	Perimeter Institute	Postdoctoral fellow
337	Sridevi Venkatesan	University of Toronto	Postdoctoral fellow
338	K. G. Arun	CMI	Faculty
339	Mainak Guha	Indian Institute of Science	Student
340	Nirmalya Kajuri	IIT Mandi	Faculty
341	Dr Shakeel	Indian Doctors for Peace and Development	Other
342	Snehal Shingavi	UT Austin	Faculty
343	Richard Fernandes	Azim Premji University	Faculty
344	Prem Kumar Vijayan	Hindu College, Delhi University	Faculty
345	Shubhayu Chatterjee	Carnegie Mellon University	Faculty
346	Akshit Goyal	MIT	Postdoctoral fellow
347	Abhishek Naskar	IIT Bombay	Postdoctoral fellow
348	Animesh Mukherjee	IISc Alumni	Other
349	Bharat Tandon	University of Waterloo	Postdoctoral fellow
350	Supratik Chakraborty	IIT Bombay	Faculty
351	Dattaraj Dhuri	New York University Abu Dhabi	Postdoctoral fellow
352	Gadadhar Misra	Indian Statistical Institute	Other
353	Sounak Biswas	Universität Würzburg	Postdoctoral fellow
354	Vaishali Bhaumik	NA	Other
355	Parthajit Biswas	RKMVERI	Postdoctoral fellow
356	Geetha Venkataraman	Ambedkar University Delhi	Faculty
357	Khalid	CDU	Faculty
358	Debraj Chakrabarti	Central Michigan University	Faculty
359	Supranta S. Boruah	The University of Arizona	Postdoctoral fellow
360	Sumit Kumar	Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover	Postdoctoral fellow
361	Nandini Sundar	University of Delhi	Faculty
362	A.P.Balachandran	Syracuse University	Faculty
363	Shamsul Islam	Former faculty University of Delhi	Other
364	Gautam Gangopadhyay	University of Calcutta	Faculty
365	Ishwar Murthy	IIM Bangalore	Other
366	Lalita	IIT Delhi	Other
367	Sushmita Venugopalan	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Faculty
368	Anirban Das	Seoul National University	Postdoctoral fellow
369	Palash Baran Pal	University of Calcutta	Other
370	Jnaneshwar Baslingker	IISc	Student
371	Ashutosh Jangle	IISc	Student
372	Aryan Hingwe	IISc Bangalore	Student
373	Joby Joseph	University of Hyderabad	Faculty
374	Austin Varughese	IISc	Other
375	Somaditya Santra	IISc	Student
376	Gatikrushna Mishra	IISER Thiruvananthapuram	Student
377	Anirban Kundu	University of Calcutta	Faculty
378	Mallar Ray	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Faculty
379	Vivek	IISc	Student
380	Kedhar R	Indian Institute of Science	Student
381	SANJAY A PAI	MANIPAL HOSPITAL-YESHWANTHPUR, BANGALORE	Faculty
382	Ponniah Rajamanickam	All India People Science Network	Other
383	Saptarishi Chaudhuri	Raman Research Institute	Faculty
384	Procheta Mallik	Innovation and Science Promotion Foundation	Faculty
385	Sandeep Krishna	NCBS-TIFR Bangalore	Faculty
386	Kamal Lodaya	IMSc	Other
387	Aneesh P B	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Postdoctoral fellow
388	Jay Yadav	IISc	Student
389	Shishir Jha	IIT BOMBAY	Faculty
390	Faizan Bhat	IISc	Student
391	Anu Chittawar	IISc	Student
392	ANANYA MUKHERJEE	Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics	Postdoctoral fellow
393	T R Govindarajan	IMSc, KREA University	Other
394	Kasturi Saha	IISc	Student
395	Sudin Bhattacharya	Michigan State University	Faculty
396	Divya Cherian	Princeton University	Faculty
397	Tathagata Ghosh	IUCAA	Student
398	Arunkumar A S	French Institute of Pondicherry	Postdoctoral fellow
399	Abilash Kumar M	IISER Pune	Other
400	Anwesha Guha	IISc/UCSB	Student
401	Rafael Sorkin	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	Faculty
402	Venkatesh Athreya	Retired Professor	Other
403	SAHIDUL MONDAL	IACS KOLKATA	Postdoctoral fellow
404	Jyotsna Jha	Centre for Budget and Policy Studies	Faculty
405	Satyajit Mayor	National Centre for Biological Science	Faculty
406	Pramod Joag	Department of Physics SPPU	Other
407	Gayathri M	IISER Berhampur	Student
408	Ali Imam Khan	Science For Society, Jharkhand	Other
409	Prasad Basu	Cotton University, Guwahati	Faculty
410	N. Vittal	University of London	Faculty
411	Malini Ranganathan	American University	Faculty
412	Shrey Prakash	IISc	Student
413	Shiladitya Sengupta	IIT Roorkee	Faculty
414	Mary Ann Chacko	Ahmedabad University	Faculty
415	Parth Deshpande	Indian Institute of Science	Student
416	Amogh Rakesh	IISER Pune	Student
417	Shiv Sethi	Raman Research Institute	Faculty
418	ramesh	IIT Bombay	Faculty
419	Javed Malick	Delhi University	Faculty
420	Daksh Sultania	IISc	Student
421	Abhay Jindal	IISc	Student
422	Surya N Sahoo	NISER	Other
423	Ankush Moger	Indian Institute of Science	Student
424	Sudeepan Datta	Indian Institute of Science	Student
425	Mundur V N Murthy	IMSc (Retired)	Other
426	Shashank V. A.	IISc	Student
427	Sumati Surya	Raman Research Institute	Faculty
428	Upamanyu Yaddanapudi	Indian Institute of Science	Student
429	Indira C	Public Health Researcher, Delhi	Other
430	Abigail Silversmith Irfan	Independent researcher	Other
431	Indrajit Mitra	University of Calcutta	Faculty
432	Tulsi Srinivasan	Azim Premji University	Faculty
433	Marwa Abdul Razak	IISER Tirupati	Student
434	Dania Thomas	University of Glasgow	Faculty
435	Nivedita Menon	JNU Delhi	Faculty
436	Arvind Ayyer	IISc	Faculty
437	Vishnu Prasath T	Indian Institute of Science	Student
438	Subhankar Chakraborty	(Formerly) Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc	Other
439	Satabdi Mandal	IISc, Bangalore	Student
440	Mahima S	IISc	Student
441	Rohan D’Souza	Kyoto University (Japan)	Faculty
442	Adhavan S V	IISc	Student
443	Mahalakshmi Ramakrishnan	JNU	Faculty
444	Chella Rajan	IIT Madras	Faculty
445	M V Ajay Kumar Nair	Indian Institute of Science	Student
446	Arutra Biswas	Institute de Fisica d’Altes Energies Barcelona	Postdoctoral fellow
447	Sanjay Kumar Misra	R.B.S. College, Agra	Faculty
448	Sohaan Kumar Pattanayak	IISc	Student
449	Chandana Chakrabarti	Formerly with Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology	Other
450	Rahul Roy	Indian Statistical Institute	Faculty
451	Md A Akbarsha	Bharathidasan Univ	Other
452	Krishnendu	Iacs	Faculty
453	Ravi Sundaram	CSDS	Faculty
454	Ajit Menon	Madras Institute of Development Studies	Faculty
455	Rohit Tyagi	IIT Kanpur	Student
456	Ghanshyam Shah	Former professor JNU	Faculty
457	Sarthak Rahate	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	Student
458	SP Arun	IISc	Faculty
459	Naveen Gaur	Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi)	Faculty
460	Rina Ramdev	Delhi University	Faculty
461	Dunu Roy	Hazards Centre	Other
462	Sneha Sharma	Delhi University	Faculty
463	Arunabha Adhikari	West Bengal State University	Faculty
464	Jharna Pathak	GIDR	Faculty
465	P A Azeez	Freelance Researcher	Other
466	Indira Hirway	Centre for development alternatives	Faculty
467	Tarakdas Basu	University of Kalyani	Faculty
468	Souvik Roy	IISER Kolkata	Student
469	Priyatosh Dutta	Anandamohan college	Faculty
470	Dipendra Prasad	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	Faculty
471	Adit Vishnu	Indian Institute of Science	Student
472	Surasri Chaudhuri	Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur. Kolkata	Faculty
473	Aashima Dogra	Freelance Journalist and Author	Other
474	Dipankar Chakrabarti	IIT Kanpur	Faculty
475	Agniva	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Student
476	Silanjan Bhattacharyya	West Bengal State University	Faculty
477	Nikhil	IISc	Student
478	Biplab Bhattacharjee	Jadavpur University	Faculty
479	Amitabh Joshi	JNCASR, Bengaluru	Faculty
480	Raghavan Srinivasan	Freelance journalist	Other
481	Hariprasad KM	Universitat Rostock	Other
482	Sruti Bala	University of Amsterdam	Faculty
483	Anirban Sain	IIT Bombay	Faculty
484	Deepa	Mysore	Other
485	Suresh Devasahayam	IIT-Jammu	Faculty
486	Sagari Ramdas	Food Sovereignty Alliance	Other
487	Purendra Prasad	University of Hyderabad	Faculty
488	Naina Dayal	St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi	Faculty
489	Pranav Pandit	ICTS	Faculty
490	Amitabha Nandi	IIT Bombay	Faculty
491	Rajendran Narayanan	Azim Premji University	Faculty
492	Sipra Mukherjee	West Bengal State University	Faculty
493	Abhijit Roy	Jadavpur University	Faculty
494	Suratno Basu	TCG Crest	Faculty
495	Subhradip Ghosh	IIT Guwahati	Faculty
496	Shobha Naresh	University of Hyderabad	Faculty
497	Jyotsna Kapur	Southern Illinois university	Faculty
498	Jayarshi Bhattacharya	S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences	Student
499	Sudeshna Banerjee	Editorial Consultant	Other
500	Sutanuka Ghosh	Jadavpur University	Faculty
501	shabnam hashmi	ANHAD	Other
502	Rajashri Dasgupta	Independent researcher, journalist	Other
503	Uddeepta Deka	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences	Student
504	Themeem T	St Stephen’s College, Delhi	Faculty
505	Prof (retd) Sushil Khanna	Indian Institute of Management Calcutta	Faculty
506	Sayan Chakrabarti	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	Faculty
507	Parthasarathi Majumdar	IACS Kolkata	Faculty
508	Amita Shah	GIDR	Faculty
509	Shantanu Nandi	Osaka University	Postdoctoral fellow
510	Mayank Kohli	NCBS, TIFR	Postdoctoral fellow
511	Bindhulakshmi	TISS Mumbai	Faculty
512	Rusia Mallick	Aliah University	Other
513	Himanshu Srivastava	Eklavya Foundation	Other
514	Arup Lal Chakraborty	IIT Gandhinagar	Faculty
515	Suman G Das	University of Cologne, Germany	Postdoctoral fellow
516	Kishore G	IUCAA	Student
517	Aporajito	IACS (Indian Association of Cultivation of Science)	Student
518	Basudeb Mondal	ICTS	Student
519	Samata Biswas	The Sanskrit College and University	Faculty
520	Rabin Chakraborty	Retired from the University of Calcutta	Other
521	Souvik Mandal	Harvard University	Postdoctoral fellow
522	Tamoghna Ray	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences	Student
523	Jigyasa Watwani	ICTS	Student
524	Mandira Das	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	Student
525	Rajesh Karmakar	IIT Guwahati	Student
526	MANOAHR Swaminathan	Indian Institute of Science	Former Faculty and Alumnus
527	Pallab Kumar Hembram	IISc, Bangalore	Student
528	Swarup Sarkar	IIT Guwahati	Student
529	Vikas Dubey	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	Student
530	Dev Gangjee	University of Oxford	Faculty
531	Pavan Dharanipragada	IMSc	Student
532	Ashwin Viswanathan	Nature Conservation Foundation	Faculty
533	Sunando Kumar Patra	Bangabasi Evening College	Faculty
534	Sarbani Palit	Indian Statistical Institute	Faculty
535	Debabrata Deb	Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET), Patiala, India	Faculty
536	Tejaswini P.	ICAR-IIHR	Faculty
537	Soma Marik	RKSM Vivekananda Vidyabhavan	Faculty
538	Kunal Chattopadhyay	Jadavpur University	Faculty
539	Dhiraj Kumar Hazra	The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India	Faculty
540	Tanveen	IISc	Student
541	Pramod Yadava	Former Professor and Dean, School of Life Sciences, JNU	Faculty
542	S Sengupta	Iit B	Other
543	Mohamed Rameez	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	Faculty
544	Sitabhra Sinha	IMSc	Faculty
545	Simona Sawhney	IIT Delhi	Faculty
546	Ishika Palit	National Tsing Hua University	Postdoctoral fellow
547	SRIPARNA BANDOPADHYAY	IIT GUWAHATI	Faculty
548	Arul Lakshminarayan	IIT Madras	Faculty
549	Juny	IIHS	Other
550	M. Padmanath	The Institute of Mathematical Sciences	Faculty
551	Vikram Vyas	Independent Scientist	Other
552	Rudranil Basu	BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus	Faculty
553	Sourish Maniyar	IISc	Student
554	Tridib Sadhu	TIFR	Faculty
555	P Sunthar	IIT Bombay	Faculty
556	Barsha	IISc	Student
557	Mrinal Kanti Das	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Faculty
558	Abhijnan Kar	IISER Berhampur	Student
559	Madhu K	UC College Aluva	Faculty
560	Susmita Chakravorty	Bangalore	Other
561	Pritha Banerjee	University of Calcutta	Faculty
562	A J C Bose	SRCC, DU	Faculty
563	Rabindranath Majumdar	Calcutta University	Other
564	Amit Basak	IISERK	Student
565	Prajval Shastri	astrophysicist, Bengaluru	Other
566	Asmita Aasaavari	Department of sociology, University of Connecticut, USA	Student
567	Sowmya Dechamma CC	UoH	Faculty
568	Abhijit	NISER	Student
569	Anjula	IISc	Faculty
570	Parthanil Roy	Indian Statistical Institute	Faculty
571	Vidyanand Nanjundiah	Centre for Human Genetics	Faculty
572	Daniel Harlow	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Faculty
573	Sahil Lalsodagar	IISER Berhampur	Student
574	Sushant	Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Student
575	Surbhi Kesar	SOAS University of London	Faculty