Kathua rape case: HC rejects parole plea of key conspirator
The HC noted the possibility of a communal clash in J&K if the convict was let out on parole
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In Sanji Ram v. State of Jammu and Kashmir and others (CRWP No. 8945 of 2020), the Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected the benefit of parole to Sanji Ram, who had previously been convicted in the Kathua rape and murder case. The court was hearing the plea of Sanji Ram, who prayed for parole for a period of 8 weeks in order to attend his son’s marriage.
Mr. Sonpreet Singh Brar, appeared as the Advocate for the petitioner. Senior Advocate R.S. Cheema with Arshdeep Singh Cheema and Mr. H.S. Grewal, Additional Advocate General, Punjab appeared for the respondents.
The Bench of Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Avneesh Jhingan opined, “Given the genuine apprehension expressed as regards the possible law and order consequences if the petitioner’s prayer for parole is granted, the Court is not inclined to accept such prayer at this stage.”
The Bench took into account the report of the Senior Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, Jammu dated October 31, 2020 which stated that the relatives of the victim had returned from the higher reaches to village Rasana, where the said marriage is scheduled to take place.
It was further argued that if the petitioner is granted parole to attend the marriage “there is every apprehension of there being community clashes and protests in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir.”
Taking cognisance of the submissions, the court dismissed his petition.
Sanji Ram was the village head and priest of the temple where the crime allegedly took place. According to the charge sheet, on January 10, 2018 the 8-year-old girl was kidnapped and allegedly raped in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua district after having been kept sedated for four days before she died.
On June 10, 2019, the Pathankot special court, had awarded life sentence to Sanji Ram, Parvesh Kumar and Deepak Khajuria for the offence of murder under the Ranbir Penal Code. They have also been separately sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the offence of gang rape under Section 376D of the Code and fined Rupees 1,00,000/- (rupees one lakh only).
The court noted that the main motive behind this tragic incident was the strained relations between the local Hindu community and nomadic Bakarwal Muslims.
The order may be read here:
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Kathua rape case: HC rejects parole plea of key conspirator
The HC noted the possibility of a communal clash in J&K if the convict was let out on parole
Image Courtesy:universalnewstimeline.com
In Sanji Ram v. State of Jammu and Kashmir and others (CRWP No. 8945 of 2020), the Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected the benefit of parole to Sanji Ram, who had previously been convicted in the Kathua rape and murder case. The court was hearing the plea of Sanji Ram, who prayed for parole for a period of 8 weeks in order to attend his son’s marriage.
Mr. Sonpreet Singh Brar, appeared as the Advocate for the petitioner. Senior Advocate R.S. Cheema with Arshdeep Singh Cheema and Mr. H.S. Grewal, Additional Advocate General, Punjab appeared for the respondents.
The Bench of Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Avneesh Jhingan opined, “Given the genuine apprehension expressed as regards the possible law and order consequences if the petitioner’s prayer for parole is granted, the Court is not inclined to accept such prayer at this stage.”
The Bench took into account the report of the Senior Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, Jammu dated October 31, 2020 which stated that the relatives of the victim had returned from the higher reaches to village Rasana, where the said marriage is scheduled to take place.
It was further argued that if the petitioner is granted parole to attend the marriage “there is every apprehension of there being community clashes and protests in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir.”
Taking cognisance of the submissions, the court dismissed his petition.
Sanji Ram was the village head and priest of the temple where the crime allegedly took place. According to the charge sheet, on January 10, 2018 the 8-year-old girl was kidnapped and allegedly raped in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua district after having been kept sedated for four days before she died.
On June 10, 2019, the Pathankot special court, had awarded life sentence to Sanji Ram, Parvesh Kumar and Deepak Khajuria for the offence of murder under the Ranbir Penal Code. They have also been separately sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the offence of gang rape under Section 376D of the Code and fined Rupees 1,00,000/- (rupees one lakh only).
The court noted that the main motive behind this tragic incident was the strained relations between the local Hindu community and nomadic Bakarwal Muslims.
The order may be read here:
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On Monday, the special court in India convicted six people involved in the incident. Of them, three have been given life imprisonment, while three police officers have been sentenced for five years each for destroying the evidence.

June 10 was a great day for those who have been fighting for justice to an eight-year-old victim of rape and murder.
This is especially true for the courageous Human Rights Lawyer, Deepika Singh Rajawat who stepped forward at personal risk to defend the family of Kathua rape victim, a Muslim nomad girl who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and killed by Hindu fundamentalists in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in January 2018.
The horrific crime had attracted international attention.
Those involved in the conspiracy wanted to terrorize and humiliate Muslims in the area by using rape as a weapon.
On Monday, the special court in India convicted six people involved in the incident. Of them, three have been given life imprisonment, while three police officers have been sentenced for five years each for destroying the evidence.
Rajawat faced threats and intimidation in the deeply polarized society of India. After all, the accused enjoyed the patronage of the ruling right-wing Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), which holds power. Thanks to her advocacy, the case was transferred outside Jammu and Kashmir to ensure a fair trial.
While the verdict has certainly brought some relief, but if one looks at the broader picture the nomad girl has actually been let down by the Indian nation.
In the general election that concluded on May 19, the BJP came back to power with a brute majority. This time, the party that openly and shamelessly supported those involved in the gruesome act bagged 300 seats in the house of 543, more than 282 it captured in 2014.
If the Indian electorate was honest, the BJP should have been punished in these elections. Rather the party got rewarded by the Hindu majority. Apparently, the voters obsessed with the BJP’s outright sectarian agenda to transform the country into Hindu theocracy completely ignored the cries of the young girl.
Not only that, but the majority of voters also overlooked the fact that the girl was confined into a temple that was used for such a sacrilegious act. It seems that they weren’t even outraged over BJP folks coming out in support of the accused with the national flag.
The people who raped and murdered her, and those who came out on the streets to support them were merely few, but by re-electing a party that claims to be a custodian of Hindu religion and national interest the entire nation has deceived the soul of the little child.
Whatever may be the explanation, the May election results were in sharp contrast to the mandate of 2014 when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi ascended to power against the backdrop of the infamous Nirbhaya case.
In December 2012, a woman was gang raped and physically assaulted on a public bus in Delhi – the national capital of India. The victim later succumbed to her injuries. The death of Jyoti Singh Pandey - who came to be known as Nirbhaya was followed by angry protests in the capital.
The whole episode became a matter of shame for those in power. People thought that the government lacked will and strength to stop sexual violence on the streets of Delhi.
Among the demonstrators were the supporters of Modi and his party. Those opposed to the then-Congress government did not let the issue die until the next election.
Modi openly appealed to the voters not to forget what happened to Nirbhaya when they went to vote in the upcoming election. He categorically asked them to keep in mind the victim of Delhi rape before voting for the Lotus – the electoral symbol of BJP. Thus, the Delhi rape and murder became one of the many issues when Modi was elected to power in May 2014 with a hope for a strong government.
Come 2019, such drive was missing. Maybe The nomad girl wasn’t even on anyone’s mind.
It is pertinent to mention that the conspirators had also incited communal hatred against Muslim nomads accusing them of killing cows. The nomad girl had clearly become another victim of cow politics which has gripped the general mood of the nation ever since Modi first became the Prime Minister. Since Hindus consider a cow as a sacred animal, the self-styled cow vigilantes have intensified their hateful and violent campaign against Muslims and Christians all over the country. They continue to target these communities on suspicion of consuming beef.
Modi, who never missed an opportunity to rake up the issue of Nirbhaya before his 2014 election remained silent on the sexual assault and murder of the nomad girl and did not find it necessary to reprimand his party men for supporting wrong people.
Even otherwise, Modi was complicit in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom of Gujarat during which many young Muslim girls were raped by Hindu fundamentalists. The massacre followed the burning of a train carrying Hindu pilgrims. More than 50 people had died in the incident that was blamed on Islamic extremists by Modi, who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat back then. He wasn’t punished by the electorate that time either as he got a heavy majority in the assembly election that followed the massacre.
It’s a shame to see that the entire nation was on its feet when a Hindu woman was raped in Delhi and kept the issue alive until Modi got elected to power in 2014, but the same nation looked the other way when the nomad girl was raped and murdered in 2018 and forgot her completely when they re-elected those who defended her killers.
This is despite the fact that many social justice activists continued to remind people of what happened to the nomad girl before the election began.
The election results before the verdict are the result of pure hard work of people like Rajawat and the prosecutors. The incident and its following aftermath have proved that India is a majoritarian democracy where winning elections by scapegoating non- Hindus has become the norm.
Verdict in Kathua rape case gives hope, but India has certainly let her down
On Monday, the special court in India convicted six people involved in the incident. Of them, three have been given life imprisonment, while three police officers have been sentenced for five years each for destroying the evidence.

June 10 was a great day for those who have been fighting for justice to an eight-year-old victim of rape and murder.
This is especially true for the courageous Human Rights Lawyer, Deepika Singh Rajawat who stepped forward at personal risk to defend the family of Kathua rape victim, a Muslim nomad girl who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and killed by Hindu fundamentalists in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in January 2018.
The horrific crime had attracted international attention.
Those involved in the conspiracy wanted to terrorize and humiliate Muslims in the area by using rape as a weapon.
On Monday, the special court in India convicted six people involved in the incident. Of them, three have been given life imprisonment, while three police officers have been sentenced for five years each for destroying the evidence.
Rajawat faced threats and intimidation in the deeply polarized society of India. After all, the accused enjoyed the patronage of the ruling right-wing Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), which holds power. Thanks to her advocacy, the case was transferred outside Jammu and Kashmir to ensure a fair trial.
While the verdict has certainly brought some relief, but if one looks at the broader picture the nomad girl has actually been let down by the Indian nation.
In the general election that concluded on May 19, the BJP came back to power with a brute majority. This time, the party that openly and shamelessly supported those involved in the gruesome act bagged 300 seats in the house of 543, more than 282 it captured in 2014.
If the Indian electorate was honest, the BJP should have been punished in these elections. Rather the party got rewarded by the Hindu majority. Apparently, the voters obsessed with the BJP’s outright sectarian agenda to transform the country into Hindu theocracy completely ignored the cries of the young girl.
Not only that, but the majority of voters also overlooked the fact that the girl was confined into a temple that was used for such a sacrilegious act. It seems that they weren’t even outraged over BJP folks coming out in support of the accused with the national flag.
The people who raped and murdered her, and those who came out on the streets to support them were merely few, but by re-electing a party that claims to be a custodian of Hindu religion and national interest the entire nation has deceived the soul of the little child.
Whatever may be the explanation, the May election results were in sharp contrast to the mandate of 2014 when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi ascended to power against the backdrop of the infamous Nirbhaya case.
In December 2012, a woman was gang raped and physically assaulted on a public bus in Delhi – the national capital of India. The victim later succumbed to her injuries. The death of Jyoti Singh Pandey - who came to be known as Nirbhaya was followed by angry protests in the capital.
The whole episode became a matter of shame for those in power. People thought that the government lacked will and strength to stop sexual violence on the streets of Delhi.
Among the demonstrators were the supporters of Modi and his party. Those opposed to the then-Congress government did not let the issue die until the next election.
Modi openly appealed to the voters not to forget what happened to Nirbhaya when they went to vote in the upcoming election. He categorically asked them to keep in mind the victim of Delhi rape before voting for the Lotus – the electoral symbol of BJP. Thus, the Delhi rape and murder became one of the many issues when Modi was elected to power in May 2014 with a hope for a strong government.
Come 2019, such drive was missing. Maybe The nomad girl wasn’t even on anyone’s mind.
It is pertinent to mention that the conspirators had also incited communal hatred against Muslim nomads accusing them of killing cows. The nomad girl had clearly become another victim of cow politics which has gripped the general mood of the nation ever since Modi first became the Prime Minister. Since Hindus consider a cow as a sacred animal, the self-styled cow vigilantes have intensified their hateful and violent campaign against Muslims and Christians all over the country. They continue to target these communities on suspicion of consuming beef.
Modi, who never missed an opportunity to rake up the issue of Nirbhaya before his 2014 election remained silent on the sexual assault and murder of the nomad girl and did not find it necessary to reprimand his party men for supporting wrong people.
Even otherwise, Modi was complicit in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom of Gujarat during which many young Muslim girls were raped by Hindu fundamentalists. The massacre followed the burning of a train carrying Hindu pilgrims. More than 50 people had died in the incident that was blamed on Islamic extremists by Modi, who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat back then. He wasn’t punished by the electorate that time either as he got a heavy majority in the assembly election that followed the massacre.
It’s a shame to see that the entire nation was on its feet when a Hindu woman was raped in Delhi and kept the issue alive until Modi got elected to power in 2014, but the same nation looked the other way when the nomad girl was raped and murdered in 2018 and forgot her completely when they re-elected those who defended her killers.
This is despite the fact that many social justice activists continued to remind people of what happened to the nomad girl before the election began.
The election results before the verdict are the result of pure hard work of people like Rajawat and the prosecutors. The incident and its following aftermath have proved that India is a majoritarian democracy where winning elections by scapegoating non- Hindus has become the norm.
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Kathua rape case; Judgement pronounced, Justice done

Three police men - Special Police Officer Surender Verma, Sub Inspector Anand Dutta and Head Constable Tilak Raj - who had allegedly taken Rs 4 lakh as bribe from Sanji Ram for sabotaging the case were sentenced to five years imprisonment for destruction of evidence and fined Rupees 25,000/- (rupees twenty five thousand only)
Security arrangements were heightened around the court in view of announcement of the verdict.
According to the charge sheet, the eight-year-old girl, who was kidnapped on January 10 last year, was allegedly raped in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua district. The child was reportedly raped while heavily sedated to prevent her from screaming or fighting back. Subsequently she was murdered and her body disposed off in the woods, where it was found on January 17.
Some lawyers of the Jammu Bar Association also held a violent strike preventing the police from submitting the charge sheet in the crime. Taking suo moto cognizance of the obstruction by lawyers and the special status enjoyed by accused in the State, the Supreme Court ordered the transfer of trial of the case to Pathankot in the neighboring state of Punjab. Later, the apex court had ordered that the accused in the case should be shifted to Gurdaspur jail in Punjab from Kathua.
Kathua rape case; Judgement pronounced, Justice done

Three police men - Special Police Officer Surender Verma, Sub Inspector Anand Dutta and Head Constable Tilak Raj - who had allegedly taken Rs 4 lakh as bribe from Sanji Ram for sabotaging the case were sentenced to five years imprisonment for destruction of evidence and fined Rupees 25,000/- (rupees twenty five thousand only)
Security arrangements were heightened around the court in view of announcement of the verdict.
According to the charge sheet, the eight-year-old girl, who was kidnapped on January 10 last year, was allegedly raped in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua district. The child was reportedly raped while heavily sedated to prevent her from screaming or fighting back. Subsequently she was murdered and her body disposed off in the woods, where it was found on January 17.
Some lawyers of the Jammu Bar Association also held a violent strike preventing the police from submitting the charge sheet in the crime. Taking suo moto cognizance of the obstruction by lawyers and the special status enjoyed by accused in the State, the Supreme Court ordered the transfer of trial of the case to Pathankot in the neighboring state of Punjab. Later, the apex court had ordered that the accused in the case should be shifted to Gurdaspur jail in Punjab from Kathua.
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One Year Later, Kathua Rape Victim's Family Still Lives in Fear
One year has passed by, but the family of the eight-year-old Kathua rape and murder case victim still lives with the horror of the past, unable to get over the brutal end that their child met.
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Kathua victims legal counsel honoured in Canada
Deepika Singh Rajawat is the legal counsel of Asifa Bano’s family. Asifa was an eight-year-old Muslim nomad girl who was abducted by Hindu extremists in January as part of a conspiracy to create fear in the minds of Muslims and force them to flee Kathua region.

Canada: Deepika Singh Rajawat – who is leading the fight for justice For Asifa’s family was honoured at a community event in Surrey, Canada on Sunday.
Rajawat is the legal counsel of Asifa Bano’s family. She was an eight-year-old Muslim nomad girl who was abducted by Hindu extremists in January as part of a conspiracy to create fear in the minds of Muslims and force them to flee Kathua region. Her body was later found in a forest. The forensic evidence and police investigation established that she was held captive for several days inside a temple, sedated and raped before being murdered.
The arrests of the suspects, including a Special Police Officer, sparked angry protests from those owing allegiance to the ruling Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party. They wanted those arrested to be released. So much so, they hoisted the Indian national flag during the march taken out in support of the alleged perpetrators.

Rajawat has been facing threats on social media for standing up for Asifa – whose brutal rape and murder had caused worldwide outrage. There have been angry protests in Canada too. She also faced hostility from many male lawyers, including those defending the accused.
She was here to attend an annual community fair organized by Tiranjan – a progressive group of women which has been active in the South Asian community for many years. Amy Ghuman Sara who has been instrumental behind Tiranjan is known for raising awareness for gender equality.
Rajawat told this writer that she has been subjected to character assassination and is distraught by an attempt to communalize the issue in the name of Hindu nationalism. She insisted that she is also a proud Hindu, but her brand of Hinduism teaches discipline and compassion, whereas those who are supporting the accused have been using abusive language against her on social media.
“All I am fighting against is the crime committed against a poor girl, not against any community.”
She asserted that she believes in the Indian constitution that is based on the principles of secularism and therefore cannot hold on to her religion when it comes to her duty. She added that nationalism does not demand that people who indulge in such heinous crimes should be supported. “What happened to a Muslim girl today can happen to a Hindu woman tomorrow.”
Rajawat hopes that the justice will prevail even though the prosecution is under a lot of pressure. Thanks to the efforts of the civil society, the trial of this highly sensitive case has been transferred outside Kashmir to ensure neutrality. The trial is in progress in the neighbouring state of Punjab.
Rajawat says that the fight is not over yet as the matter has been completely politicized under a highly polarized environment. She demanded that the Indians abroad must break their silence over ongoing atrocities under a right-wing government in India. “When people remain silent bad things grow.”
Another lawyer, Talib Hussain, from the Gujjar Bakarwal community from which Asifa hailed, has also been battling the issue in the courts. CJP did an exclusive interview with both in April 2018.
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Kathua victims legal counsel honoured in Canada
Deepika Singh Rajawat is the legal counsel of Asifa Bano’s family. Asifa was an eight-year-old Muslim nomad girl who was abducted by Hindu extremists in January as part of a conspiracy to create fear in the minds of Muslims and force them to flee Kathua region.

Canada: Deepika Singh Rajawat – who is leading the fight for justice For Asifa’s family was honoured at a community event in Surrey, Canada on Sunday.
Rajawat is the legal counsel of Asifa Bano’s family. She was an eight-year-old Muslim nomad girl who was abducted by Hindu extremists in January as part of a conspiracy to create fear in the minds of Muslims and force them to flee Kathua region. Her body was later found in a forest. The forensic evidence and police investigation established that she was held captive for several days inside a temple, sedated and raped before being murdered.
The arrests of the suspects, including a Special Police Officer, sparked angry protests from those owing allegiance to the ruling Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party. They wanted those arrested to be released. So much so, they hoisted the Indian national flag during the march taken out in support of the alleged perpetrators.

Rajawat has been facing threats on social media for standing up for Asifa – whose brutal rape and murder had caused worldwide outrage. There have been angry protests in Canada too. She also faced hostility from many male lawyers, including those defending the accused.
She was here to attend an annual community fair organized by Tiranjan – a progressive group of women which has been active in the South Asian community for many years. Amy Ghuman Sara who has been instrumental behind Tiranjan is known for raising awareness for gender equality.
Rajawat told this writer that she has been subjected to character assassination and is distraught by an attempt to communalize the issue in the name of Hindu nationalism. She insisted that she is also a proud Hindu, but her brand of Hinduism teaches discipline and compassion, whereas those who are supporting the accused have been using abusive language against her on social media.
“All I am fighting against is the crime committed against a poor girl, not against any community.”
She asserted that she believes in the Indian constitution that is based on the principles of secularism and therefore cannot hold on to her religion when it comes to her duty. She added that nationalism does not demand that people who indulge in such heinous crimes should be supported. “What happened to a Muslim girl today can happen to a Hindu woman tomorrow.”
Rajawat hopes that the justice will prevail even though the prosecution is under a lot of pressure. Thanks to the efforts of the civil society, the trial of this highly sensitive case has been transferred outside Kashmir to ensure neutrality. The trial is in progress in the neighbouring state of Punjab.
Rajawat says that the fight is not over yet as the matter has been completely politicized under a highly polarized environment. She demanded that the Indians abroad must break their silence over ongoing atrocities under a right-wing government in India. “When people remain silent bad things grow.”
Another lawyer, Talib Hussain, from the Gujjar Bakarwal community from which Asifa hailed, has also been battling the issue in the courts. CJP did an exclusive interview with both in April 2018.
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The Supreme Court has also ordered a day-to-day trial and clarified that this means there shall be no adjournments during the trial. The trial will be held in camera and the statements that have been recorded in Urdu will be translated into either Hindi or English for the Pathankot court. The trial will be held as per the provisions of the Ranbir Penal Code that is applicable to the state of J&K. The case will be presided over by the Pathankot District Judge and the SC will monitor the trial.
A bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was hearing a plea to transfer the case out of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The SC refused to examine a separate plea to hand over investigations in the case to the CBI. While the SC allowed the Jammu and Kashmir government to appoint a public prosecutor, it said that the state government should provide security to the victim’s family, their lawyer and witnesses in the case. This is also significant because Deepika Singh Rajawat, who is the victim’s lawyer, had alleged harassment from the Jammu Bar Association.
Supporters of the accused had earlier held a rally claiming they had been framed. The tricolour was also waved at this rally with much gusto as if to suggest the accused were national heroes who were being falsely implicated in the case. Later members of the Kathua Bar Association had tried to prevent the Crime Branch form filing a charge-sheet before the court in a clear case of obstruction of justice. The 15 page charge-sheet showcases the horrifying brutality of the case as well as how the accused had kidnapped, drugged, raped and murdered the little girl to scare and drive away the local nomadic Muslim Bakarwal community.
SC transfers Kathua Rape and Murder case to Punjab, will monitor trial

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The Supreme Court has also ordered a day-to-day trial and clarified that this means there shall be no adjournments during the trial. The trial will be held in camera and the statements that have been recorded in Urdu will be translated into either Hindi or English for the Pathankot court. The trial will be held as per the provisions of the Ranbir Penal Code that is applicable to the state of J&K. The case will be presided over by the Pathankot District Judge and the SC will monitor the trial.
A bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was hearing a plea to transfer the case out of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The SC refused to examine a separate plea to hand over investigations in the case to the CBI. While the SC allowed the Jammu and Kashmir government to appoint a public prosecutor, it said that the state government should provide security to the victim’s family, their lawyer and witnesses in the case. This is also significant because Deepika Singh Rajawat, who is the victim’s lawyer, had alleged harassment from the Jammu Bar Association.
Supporters of the accused had earlier held a rally claiming they had been framed. The tricolour was also waved at this rally with much gusto as if to suggest the accused were national heroes who were being falsely implicated in the case. Later members of the Kathua Bar Association had tried to prevent the Crime Branch form filing a charge-sheet before the court in a clear case of obstruction of justice. The 15 page charge-sheet showcases the horrifying brutality of the case as well as how the accused had kidnapped, drugged, raped and murdered the little girl to scare and drive away the local nomadic Muslim Bakarwal community.
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'Fact finding' report by 'intellectuals' questions role of Kashmiri Crime Branch investigators in Kathua case
In yet another attempt to discredit the investigation by the Crime Branch into the Kathua rape case, a ‘fact finding report’ by a group calling itself Group of Intellectuals and Academicians (GIA), claims that there are discrepancies in the charge-sheet and that the Crime Branch “botched-up” the investigations. However, a close inspection of these alleged discrepancies suggests that these are nothing more than an aggregation of fake news stories and various conspiracy theories being floated by right wing sympathisers and trolls. What’s worse, is that the report suggests that the Crime Branch may not have done a good job because of the presence of Kashmiris in the team!
Meet the 'Intellectuals'The GIA comprises Meera Khadakkar (Retired District Judge, Nagpur), Monika Arora (Supreme Court Advocate), Sarjana Sharma (Journalist), Sonali Chitalkar (Professor) and Monica Aggarwal (Social activist). The group that submitted its report to Union Minister Jitendra Singh and demanded that the case be handed over to the CBI. The GIA claims they met more than 25 people including the victim's family, the accused family members, the influential people from the Bakarwal community and others.
Argument-1: Presence of Kashmiris in Crime Branch Team
"Three investigating teams rapidly changed one after another within a span of 10 days from January 12 to January 23. The crime branch team consists of two ethnic Kashmiris apart from the SSP Crime Branch Jammu who is also Kashmiri. In a sensitive case like this one and interstate like Jammu and Kashmir, this matters," notes the report. This clearly shows their communal bias given how while Jammu is Hindu majority region, Kashmir is predominantly Muslim.The allusion to the incompetence and/or collusion of Muslim investigators in purposely tanking the case should ring enough alarm bells across civil society groups. This is also disturbing given how the charge-sheet clearly mentions that the little girl was raped and murdered because the accused wanted to scare and drive away the nomadic Muslim Bakarwal tribe from the region. The insidious communal colour becomes deeper when the report alleges that harassment by the Crime Branch is forcing Hindus to leave the Kathua region. With the scars of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus of the 90s still deep, such communally inflammatory allegations can cause further destabilisation in one of the most conflict ridden regions in the world.
Argument-2: Post Mortem does not mention Rape
The brutality of the crime had shaken people across the country forcing many to take to the streets. But the GIA report says that the post-mortem does not categorically state that the child was raped. "The charge sheet mentions gangrape by at least three persons over many days. This is not corroborated by the injuries described in the postmortem report. No such injuries are reported on the victim in the Kathua incident which according to the chargesheet is a gangrape. Postmortem report only mentions abrasions but no injuries," states the report. This is especially ridiculous given how the J&K Police had issued a press release shooting down fake news and categorically stating that the girl had indeed been raped.
This reeks of the popular conspiracy theory that involves two post-mortems! The theory claimed that the little girl was never raped as the first post-mortem report does not mention it. The conspiracy theory further alleges that rape was added in the second post mortem report to sensationalise the case.
Argument-3: Rape not possible at the Dev Sthan
Meanwhile, Arora maintains that rape would be impossible in a prayer hall that had multiple doors and windows and the keys of which were in possession of four village elders. "There is neither any basement nor any floor. There is only a 20x35 feet room where there is no furniture except a three feet table. There are three windows and three doors. The windows have only grills and they are not covered. You can see from outside what is going on inside. There are four keys to the Dev Sthan which are with four elders of the village. People come and go there frequently," she said.
But this has also been debunked by The Quint in a piece that takes down multiple conspiracy theories. It says, “The Quint has visited the temple/prayer hall where the police states the girl was held captive and can certify that it is not a crowded temple. The temple is located in the middle of nowhere, with no houses adjacent to it for kilometres.” The Quint adds, “It is situated on a hilltop and is isolated from the Rasanna village which lies about a kilometre away from the hall. The walk, which leads to the village, is a lonely one. It opens up to a number of houses including the home of Sanji Ram. It is on this same path that the body of the victim was found on 17 January. The chargesheet states that that the Devisthan was exclusively manned by the main accused, Sanji Ram, to exclude any other person in the area.”
Last-ditch effort to derail Justice?
Is this yet another move to derail justice after the spectacularly juvenile attempt by lawyers to prevent the police from filing a chargesheet? Or is this a last ditch attempt by right wing sympathisers to protect the accused whose goose has virtually been cooked? Either way, these repeated endeavours to spread ridiculous and often outright incorrect information, are part of the wider conspiracy to sow the weeds of doubt in a case that has been brilliantly investigated by a team of skilled investigators... and a case that will be fought with equal elan and grace by a dedicated lawyer in the court.
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'Fact finding' report by 'intellectuals' questions role of Kashmiri Crime Branch investigators in Kathua case
In yet another attempt to discredit the investigation by the Crime Branch into the Kathua rape case, a ‘fact finding report’ by a group calling itself Group of Intellectuals and Academicians (GIA), claims that there are discrepancies in the charge-sheet and that the Crime Branch “botched-up” the investigations. However, a close inspection of these alleged discrepancies suggests that these are nothing more than an aggregation of fake news stories and various conspiracy theories being floated by right wing sympathisers and trolls. What’s worse, is that the report suggests that the Crime Branch may not have done a good job because of the presence of Kashmiris in the team!
Meet the 'Intellectuals'The GIA comprises Meera Khadakkar (Retired District Judge, Nagpur), Monika Arora (Supreme Court Advocate), Sarjana Sharma (Journalist), Sonali Chitalkar (Professor) and Monica Aggarwal (Social activist). The group that submitted its report to Union Minister Jitendra Singh and demanded that the case be handed over to the CBI. The GIA claims they met more than 25 people including the victim's family, the accused family members, the influential people from the Bakarwal community and others.
Argument-1: Presence of Kashmiris in Crime Branch Team
"Three investigating teams rapidly changed one after another within a span of 10 days from January 12 to January 23. The crime branch team consists of two ethnic Kashmiris apart from the SSP Crime Branch Jammu who is also Kashmiri. In a sensitive case like this one and interstate like Jammu and Kashmir, this matters," notes the report. This clearly shows their communal bias given how while Jammu is Hindu majority region, Kashmir is predominantly Muslim.The allusion to the incompetence and/or collusion of Muslim investigators in purposely tanking the case should ring enough alarm bells across civil society groups. This is also disturbing given how the charge-sheet clearly mentions that the little girl was raped and murdered because the accused wanted to scare and drive away the nomadic Muslim Bakarwal tribe from the region. The insidious communal colour becomes deeper when the report alleges that harassment by the Crime Branch is forcing Hindus to leave the Kathua region. With the scars of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus of the 90s still deep, such communally inflammatory allegations can cause further destabilisation in one of the most conflict ridden regions in the world.
Argument-2: Post Mortem does not mention Rape
The brutality of the crime had shaken people across the country forcing many to take to the streets. But the GIA report says that the post-mortem does not categorically state that the child was raped. "The charge sheet mentions gangrape by at least three persons over many days. This is not corroborated by the injuries described in the postmortem report. No such injuries are reported on the victim in the Kathua incident which according to the chargesheet is a gangrape. Postmortem report only mentions abrasions but no injuries," states the report. This is especially ridiculous given how the J&K Police had issued a press release shooting down fake news and categorically stating that the girl had indeed been raped.
This reeks of the popular conspiracy theory that involves two post-mortems! The theory claimed that the little girl was never raped as the first post-mortem report does not mention it. The conspiracy theory further alleges that rape was added in the second post mortem report to sensationalise the case.
Argument-3: Rape not possible at the Dev Sthan
Meanwhile, Arora maintains that rape would be impossible in a prayer hall that had multiple doors and windows and the keys of which were in possession of four village elders. "There is neither any basement nor any floor. There is only a 20x35 feet room where there is no furniture except a three feet table. There are three windows and three doors. The windows have only grills and they are not covered. You can see from outside what is going on inside. There are four keys to the Dev Sthan which are with four elders of the village. People come and go there frequently," she said.
But this has also been debunked by The Quint in a piece that takes down multiple conspiracy theories. It says, “The Quint has visited the temple/prayer hall where the police states the girl was held captive and can certify that it is not a crowded temple. The temple is located in the middle of nowhere, with no houses adjacent to it for kilometres.” The Quint adds, “It is situated on a hilltop and is isolated from the Rasanna village which lies about a kilometre away from the hall. The walk, which leads to the village, is a lonely one. It opens up to a number of houses including the home of Sanji Ram. It is on this same path that the body of the victim was found on 17 January. The chargesheet states that that the Devisthan was exclusively manned by the main accused, Sanji Ram, to exclude any other person in the area.”
Last-ditch effort to derail Justice?
Is this yet another move to derail justice after the spectacularly juvenile attempt by lawyers to prevent the police from filing a chargesheet? Or is this a last ditch attempt by right wing sympathisers to protect the accused whose goose has virtually been cooked? Either way, these repeated endeavours to spread ridiculous and often outright incorrect information, are part of the wider conspiracy to sow the weeds of doubt in a case that has been brilliantly investigated by a team of skilled investigators... and a case that will be fought with equal elan and grace by a dedicated lawyer in the court.
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Kathua Case: Fearful Bakarwals Oppose CBI Enquiry
Newsclick caught up with the community as it moved up the mountains with its animals in an annual summer ritual.
But below this idyllic peace is a simmering sense of fear and disquiet in the family, as in the whole Bakarwal community. The rape and murder of eight-year-old Bakarwal girl in Rasana village of Kathua district in January and the subsequent tumult has left the community scarred and terrified. The filing of chargesheet which revealed the horrendous torture that the tiny girl was put through, her abduction, repeated rape and ultimate murder, and the chilling conspiracy behind it shook the country. But for the Bakarwals, it was much more than that.
Khatana speaks both Gojri (a local dialect) and Kashmiri, but is comfortable with the latter. He has been worrying about the future of his community after the gruesome incident.
"We have never felt this vulnerable. As the news of rape spread, we couldn't sleep for many nights. We are more careful and vigilant now," said Khatana, adding that those who raped the little girl had no religion or caste.
According to Khatana, the incident has created fear among the Gujjar and Bakarwals who believe this was all a part of a conspiracy to evict them from the area.
Khatana is flanked by his brother Gulam Ahmed, who is impatient to say something himself.
"We believe this to be the part of conspiracy, as the plan to evict was already in place and it was revealed after Lal Singh became the Forest Minister. Singh has been brutal towards us. He has fenced the areas we live in and has explicitly asked us to leave the Jammu area. Eviction drives have substantially increased after he became the minister," said Gulam Ahmed.
Recently, BJP leader Lal Singh reportedly issued directions to District Forest Officers asking for the removal of encroachments from the forest land. He was also accused of threatening the tribal community by reminding them of the 1947 massacre.
"We clearly remember when Lal Singh asked us to remember 1947 and leave the area. Why are they bringing 1947 over and over again? Isn't it because in 1947 majority of Muslim population was killed and disloged from the state? Is the rape of the child another reminder of this?" Ahmed added.
CBI enquiry to suppress the case
After the submission of charge sheet by Crime Branch the local residents in Kathua and Jammu launched protests and demanded a CBI enquiry. The local outrage was supported by BJP leaders and the Bar Association of Jammu. Their demand was unanimous - they wanted a CBI enquiry, nothing less. Locals from the Hindu community of Rasana supported by assorted right-wing fringe groups have been protesting for the transfer of case to CBI.
The Bakarwals see these protests and the CBI enquiry demand in a different way.
"CBI enquiry is a conspiracy to suppress the case. It is an organized move. Have you noticed that none of the cases that CBI handled in Jammu and Kashmir have been successful? They were closed down citing no evidence. This is what they want to happen. They want to suppress this case," says Khatana.
As he talks, a curious little girl comes in to the room. Looking at her face, the wrinkles on Khatana’s forehead deepen.
"We knew they don't like us. But we never thought them to stoop this low," he says, pulling the girl into his lap and hugging her. The memory of what happened in Kathua to the girl who was murdered haunts his eyes.
Go to Kashmir
According to Gulam Ahmed, people from their community have been previously threatened to leave the Jammu area. They are often asked to go Kashmir and not come back. Gulam recalls an incident when their shanty was put on fire by the other community.
"We are not seen as Gujjar or Bakarwals. We are seen as Muslims. Whenever there is a stone pelting incident in Kashmir, we are threatened by the locals of Jammu. They once even put fire to our hut and we had to take a refuge in a Sikh's house for a month," Gulam said, adding that, the Hindu-Muslim divide has deepened and now they fear for their lives.
As evening descends on the mountains, the sound of Chenab grows deeper. Khatana counts the number of family members inside the house and closes the door for the night.
Courtesy: Newsclick.in
Kathua Case: Fearful Bakarwals Oppose CBI Enquiry
Newsclick caught up with the community as it moved up the mountains with its animals in an annual summer ritual.
But below this idyllic peace is a simmering sense of fear and disquiet in the family, as in the whole Bakarwal community. The rape and murder of eight-year-old Bakarwal girl in Rasana village of Kathua district in January and the subsequent tumult has left the community scarred and terrified. The filing of chargesheet which revealed the horrendous torture that the tiny girl was put through, her abduction, repeated rape and ultimate murder, and the chilling conspiracy behind it shook the country. But for the Bakarwals, it was much more than that.
Khatana speaks both Gojri (a local dialect) and Kashmiri, but is comfortable with the latter. He has been worrying about the future of his community after the gruesome incident.
"We have never felt this vulnerable. As the news of rape spread, we couldn't sleep for many nights. We are more careful and vigilant now," said Khatana, adding that those who raped the little girl had no religion or caste.
According to Khatana, the incident has created fear among the Gujjar and Bakarwals who believe this was all a part of a conspiracy to evict them from the area.
Khatana is flanked by his brother Gulam Ahmed, who is impatient to say something himself.
"We believe this to be the part of conspiracy, as the plan to evict was already in place and it was revealed after Lal Singh became the Forest Minister. Singh has been brutal towards us. He has fenced the areas we live in and has explicitly asked us to leave the Jammu area. Eviction drives have substantially increased after he became the minister," said Gulam Ahmed.
Recently, BJP leader Lal Singh reportedly issued directions to District Forest Officers asking for the removal of encroachments from the forest land. He was also accused of threatening the tribal community by reminding them of the 1947 massacre.
"We clearly remember when Lal Singh asked us to remember 1947 and leave the area. Why are they bringing 1947 over and over again? Isn't it because in 1947 majority of Muslim population was killed and disloged from the state? Is the rape of the child another reminder of this?" Ahmed added.
CBI enquiry to suppress the case
After the submission of charge sheet by Crime Branch the local residents in Kathua and Jammu launched protests and demanded a CBI enquiry. The local outrage was supported by BJP leaders and the Bar Association of Jammu. Their demand was unanimous - they wanted a CBI enquiry, nothing less. Locals from the Hindu community of Rasana supported by assorted right-wing fringe groups have been protesting for the transfer of case to CBI.
The Bakarwals see these protests and the CBI enquiry demand in a different way.
"CBI enquiry is a conspiracy to suppress the case. It is an organized move. Have you noticed that none of the cases that CBI handled in Jammu and Kashmir have been successful? They were closed down citing no evidence. This is what they want to happen. They want to suppress this case," says Khatana.
As he talks, a curious little girl comes in to the room. Looking at her face, the wrinkles on Khatana’s forehead deepen.
"We knew they don't like us. But we never thought them to stoop this low," he says, pulling the girl into his lap and hugging her. The memory of what happened in Kathua to the girl who was murdered haunts his eyes.
Go to Kashmir
According to Gulam Ahmed, people from their community have been previously threatened to leave the Jammu area. They are often asked to go Kashmir and not come back. Gulam recalls an incident when their shanty was put on fire by the other community.
"We are not seen as Gujjar or Bakarwals. We are seen as Muslims. Whenever there is a stone pelting incident in Kashmir, we are threatened by the locals of Jammu. They once even put fire to our hut and we had to take a refuge in a Sikh's house for a month," Gulam said, adding that, the Hindu-Muslim divide has deepened and now they fear for their lives.
As evening descends on the mountains, the sound of Chenab grows deeper. Khatana counts the number of family members inside the house and closes the door for the night.
Courtesy: Newsclick.in
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Over 600 academics, scholars from India and abroad express "deep anger and anguish" over Kathua, Unnao in an open letter to PM
The Prime Minister of India,
Prime Minister’s Office, South Block,
Raisina Hill, New Delhi 110 001.
21 April 2018
Mr Prime Minister,
We are academics and independent scholars from India and abroad, writing to express solidarity with, and to endorse the sentiments expressed by, forty-nine retired civil servants in their open letter to you of April 16th 2018 (https://sabrangindia.in/article/honble-pm-modi-we-write-express-our-shame-anguish-and-rage).

Along with these civil servants and countless other citizens of India and the world at large, we wish to express our deep anger and anguish over the events in Kathua and Unnao and the aftermath of these events; over the efforts, in both cases, of those administering the relevant States to protect the alleged perpetrators of these monstrous crimes; over the subsequent profoundly distasteful efforts of rationalisation, deflection and diversion that have been so much in evidence in the reactions of your party’s spokespersons in the media; and finally over your own prolonged (and by now familiar) silence that was broken only recently with wholly inadequate, platitudinous, and non-specific assurances of justice for the victims.
Kathua and Unnao are not isolated incidents. They are part of a pattern of repeated targeted attacks on minority religious communities, Dalits, tribals and women, in which rape and lynching have been employed as instruments of violence by gau rakshaks and others, in a sequence of events spread across Dadri in Uttar Pradesh (2015), Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir (2015), Bijapur and Sukma in Chhattisgarh (2015-16), Harda in Madhya Pradesh (2016), Latehar in Jharkand (2016), Una in Gujarat (2016), Rohtak in Haryana (2017), Delhi (2017), Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh (2017), and now Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh (2018).
Many of these events have occurred in States with BJP Governments, and all of them after the BJP assumed power at the Centre. This is not to associate violence exclusively with your party and with State governments presided over by your party. But there is an undeniable association with the ruling dispensation.
There is little evidence, in government action, of an appreciation of the importance of providing assistance to vulnerable sections of the society – whether through promotional measures aimed at enabling tribals and nomads to have access to forest and common property rights, or through preventive measures aimed at discouraging blatant breaches of the rule of law. Even the Allahabad High Court on April 12th 2018 observed: “If this is the conduct of the police in the state, whom will a victim approach to register a complaint? If this is the stand you are repeatedly taking then we will be forced to observe in our order that law and order has collapsed in the state”.
We send you this letter because it is our duty to do so; so that we are not guilty of silence; and so that callousness and cowardice might finally draw the line at the broken body of a little girl and the rape of a young woman.
Signed:
List of signatories
- N Abhilaasha, Centre for Urban Equity, Ahmedabad
- Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Arnab Acharya, Independent researcher, Washington D.C.
- Anindita Adhikari , Brown University, USA
- Tanvir Aeijaz, Ramjas College, Delhi
- Farzana Afridi, Delhi
- Aftab Ahmad, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, San Diego State University, CA, USA
- Aniket Alam, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
- Seema Alavi, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Meena Alexander, Hunter College/Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
- Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster, UK
- Anandhi, Chennai.
- Krishna Ananth, SRM University – AP Amaravati
- Mary Anderson: Harvard University and Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA
- Aneesh, K.A., Jawaharlal Nehru Institute, New Delhi
- Gil Anidjar, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Anitha Kumary L, Trivandrum
- Sundari Anitha, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
- Annamalai, University of Chicago, USA
- Shaik Dawood Ansari, Open Campus Madang, University of Papua New Guinea
- Arjun Appadurai, New York University, New York, USA
- Anjali Arondekar, UCLA, USA
- Balveer Arora, Emeritus Professor and Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism
- P K Yasser Arafath, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Shoba Arun, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
- Arunima, JNU, New Delhi
- Nina Asher, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
- Kiran Asher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
- Prashanth Asuri, Santa Clara University, USA
- Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington, USA
- Venkatesh Athreya, Social Activist and Retired Academic, Chennai
- Madhav Badami, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Amiya Kumar Bagchi, (Emeritus), Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata
- Barnita Bagchi, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Neha Bagle, IIM Ahmedabad
- Vidura Jang Bahadur, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Amit R. Baishya, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
- Mira Bakhru, Retd faculty, IIM Bangalore, Bnagalore.
- Aparna Balachandran, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Radhika Balakrishnan, Rutgers University, U.S.A
- Sai Balakrishnan, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
- Sujata Balasubramanian, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
- Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Retd Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
- Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Arindam Banerjee, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Chinmoy Banerjee, Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
- Sukanya Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
- Sumanta Banerjee, Independent Researcher, Hyderabad
- Parama Barai, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
- Syamal Kumar Basak (Retd), Presidency College/University, Kolkata
- Rakesh Basant, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Alaka Basu, Cornell University, U.S.A
- Amrita Basu, Amherst College, Mass, USA
- Deepankar Basu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
- Kunal Basu, University of Oxford, UK
- Lopamudra Basu, University of Wisconsin-Stout
- Kanika Batra, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
- Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
- Rana P. Behal, University of Delhi, India.
- Jyothsna Belliappa, Bangalore
- Yael Berda, Hebrew University and Harvard University, USA
- Amit Bhaduri, (Emeritus), JNU, New Delhi.
- Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, University of Mississippi
- Manu Bhagavan, Hunter College and the Graduate Center-CUNY, New York, USA
- Alok Bhalla, Former Professor of English, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
- Sheila Bhalla, (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Visiting: Institute of Human Development, New Delhi
- Brenna Bhandar, SOAS, University of London, London UK
- Gauri Bharat, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
- Ira Bhaskar, JNU, New Delhi
- Saurabh Bhattacharjee, The WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
- Baidik Bhattacharya, University of Delhi. Delhi
- Neeladri Bhattacharya, Retd from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Sucheta Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Devaki Bhaya, Stanford, CA, USA
- Bhangya Bhukya, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, U.S.A.
- A K Biswas, Former Vice-Chancellor, B R Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar
- Bënil Biswas, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Moinak Biswas, Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Cavery Bopaiah, Bangalore
- Mita Bose, retired, Indraprastha College, Delhi University and currently Adjunct faculty at ICFAI Business School, Gurugram, Haryana
- Tirthankar Bose, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Saronik Bosu, New York University, New York, USA
- Guillaume Boucher, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- Milind Brahme, Chennai, India
- Vacha Brat, IIM, Ahmedabad
- Carmen Bugan, writer and independent scholar, Long Island, USA
- Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
- Maya Chadda, William Paterson University, NJ, USA
- Kunal Chakrabarti, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Achin Chakraborty, Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata
- Chandrima Chakraborty, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Lekha Chakraborty, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
- Madhurima Chakraborty, Columbia College Chicago
- Pinaki Chakraborty, New Delhi
- Rudrashish Chakraborty, Kirori Mal College, Delhi
- Shouvik Chakraborty, PERI, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
- Ranabir Chakravarti, JNU, New Delhi
- Paula Chakravartty, New York University, New York, USA
- Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia, USA
- Barnali Chanda, Techno India University, Kolkata
- Sudhir Chandra, Historian
- Vinita Chandra, Ramjas College, Delhi
- P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Tarun Chandrayadula, IIT Madras, Chennai
- Charusheela, University of Washington Bothell, USA
- Sayaka Chatani, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Amita Chatterjee, Retired Professor of Philosophy, Jadavpur University
- Ananya Chatterjea, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- Indrani Chatterjee, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Bangalore
- Suchetana Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Ruchi Chaturvedi, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Amit Chaudhuri, Writer, Calcutta
- Aparna Chaudhuri, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- Rosinka Chaudhuri, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
- Sudip Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
- Sukanta Chaudhuri, (Emeritus), Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Supriya Chaudhuri, (Emeritia). Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Wendy Chavkin MD, MPH, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Ying Chen, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
- Anuradha Mitra Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Dolores Chew, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Anita Chikkatur, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
- Camille Cole, Yale University, U.S.A
- Andrew Cornford, Geneva Finance Observatory, Switzerland
- Amrita Chhachhi, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
- Jagdeep Chhokar, Professor (Retired), Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad
- Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA
- Deborah Choate, MD, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, USA
- Noam Chomsky, ( Emeritus) Massachussetts Institute of Technology, and University of Arizona, U.S.A
- Deepta Chopra, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Elora Halim Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
- Indira Chowdhury Bengaluru, India
- Indranil Chowdhury, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Nusrat S Chowdhury, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA
- Sayandeb Chowdhury, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Francis Cody, University of Toronto, Canada
- Karen Coelho, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
- Camille Cole, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Jonathan R. Cole, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Andrew Cornford, Geneva Finance Observatory, Switzerland
- Romar Correa, (Retd from) University of Mumbai, Mumbai
- Vedita Cowaloosur, Charles Telfair Institute, Mauritius
- Vasudha Dalmia, (Emerita), University of California, Berkeley
- Katyayani Dalmia, The New School for Social Research, New York, USA
- Sumangala Damodaran, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Vinita Damodaran, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Bijay K Danta, Tezpur, Assam
- Jane D’Arista, U/Mass, Amherst, USA
- Debapratim Das, Guwahati
- Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati
- Mausumi Das, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
- Raju J. Das, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Samantak Das, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Shinjini Das, University of Oxford, UK
- Amlan Dasgupta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Anirban Dasgupta, South Asian University, New Delhi
- Indraneel Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
- Sunanda Dasgupta, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
- Sejuti Das Gupta, Michigan State University, USA
- Tanya Das Gupta, Toronto, Canada
- Minati Dash, ICSSR, New Delhi.
- Manipadma Datta, TERI School of Advanced Studies( Deemed University), New Delhi
- Ruth Davis, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Subah Dayal, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
- Rohit De, Yale University, New Haven, USA
- Ananya Debnath, Jodhpur, Rajastahn
- Sowmya Dechamma C C, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
- Narayana Delampady, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
- Minoo Derayeh, Toronto, Canada
- Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
- Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Jigna Desai, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
- Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- Miki and Madhavi Desai, Ahmedabad
- Renu Desai, Ahmedabad
- Anirudh Deshpande, Department of History, Delhi University
- Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
- Satish Deshpande, Delhi University, Delhi
- Sudhanva Deshpande, LeftWord Books, New Delhi
- Peter Ronald deSouza, CSDS, Delhi
- Sanchia deSouza, University of Toronto, Canada
- Devika, J. Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
- Ritu Dewan, Centre for Development Research and Action; Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai
- Bikramjit Dey, The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
- Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton, U. K
- Biswajit Dhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Anubha Dhasmana, Bangalore
- Roopa Dhawan, Ramjas College, Delhi University
- Jean Dreze, (Visiting): Ranchi University
- Rohan D’Souza, Kyoto University, Japan
- Prasenjit Duara, Duke University, Durham, USA
- Navroz K. Dubash, New Delhi
- Vebhuti Duggal, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Durga Bhavani, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Madhumita Dutta, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Nandini Dutta, Miranda House, Delhi
- Souraj Dutta, St Andrews University, UK
- Nata Duvvury, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Carolyn Elliott, Professor Emerita, University of Vermont
- Meher Engineer, All India Forum on the Right to Education, New Delhi
- Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Pradeep Esteves, Context India, Bangalore
- Richard Falk, (Emeritus): Princeton University, U.S.A
- Alfredo Saad Filho, Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London
- Michelle Fine, CUNY, New York, USA
- Nancy Folbre, PERI, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
- Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, State University of New York Oswego, USA
- Colm Fox, Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences, Singapore
- Smitha Francis, New Delhi
- Karen Gabriel, St Stephen’s College, Delhi
- Rahul K Gairola, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
- Toral Gajarawala, New York University, New York, USA
- Rajmohan Gandhi, Gurgaon
- Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Gangadhar, All India Forum for Right to Education
- Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
- Geetanjali Shree, Writer
- Maitreesh Ghatak, London Shool of Economics, U.K
- Saran Ghatak, Professor, Keene State College, USA
- Asher Ghertner, Rutgers University, USA
- Professor Aisha K. Gill, University of Roehampton, UK.
- Sayantan Ghosal, University of Glasgow, UK
- Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University, U.S.A
- Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Partha Ghosh, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
- Suman Ghosh, Florida Atlantic University , USA
- Geetha Gokul, St. Thomas’ College, Trichur, Kerala
- Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge, UK
- Radha Gopalan, Independent Researcher and Educationist, Goa
- Gayatri Gopinath, New York University, New York, USA
- Manu Goswami, New York University, New York, USA
- Gregory Goulding, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
- Paul Greenough, University of Iowa, USA
- Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta, Kolkata
- Akhil Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles
- Bishnupriya Gupta, Warwick University, UK
- Ruchira Gupta, New York University and University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A
- Sayan Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai.
- Smita Gupta, independent economist, New Delhi
- Vikas Gupta, Department of History, Delhi University, Delhi
- Vishal Gupta, Ahmedabad
- Dean Gupta-Casale, Kean University, NJ, USA
- Nira Gupta-Casale, Kean University, NJ, USA
- Jaideep Gupte, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK
- Shubhra Gururani, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Abha Dev Habib, Miranda House, Delhi
- John Harriss, Simon Fraser University and Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Goettingen, Germany
- Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi, Delhi.
- Zoya Hasan, (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Rim Hassen, Warwick University, UK
- Neeraj Hatekar, University of Mumbai, Mumbai
- John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Indira Hirway, Center For Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad
- Nalini Iyer, Seattle University, USA
- Priyadarshini Iyer, IIM – Ahmedabad
- Srikanth Krishnan Iyer, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Vijay Iyer, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- Krati Jain, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
- Sanjay Jain, University of Oxford, UK
- Sarandha Jain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Sheena Jain, formerly Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
- Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College, Deublin, Ireland
- Sadia Jamil, Islamabad, Pakistan
- Russell Janis, J.D., University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
- Niraja Gopal Jayal, JNU, New Delhi
- Jayaraj, retired economist, Chennai
- Rajshri Jayaraman, ESMT Berlin, Germany
- Katherine Jellison, Ohio University, USA
- Praveen Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Gita Johar, Columbia University, New York, USA
- May Joseph, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
- Yogi Joseph, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Chitra Joshi, Delhi University, New Delhi
- Rutul Joshi, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
- Amalendu Jyotishi, Amrita School of Business, Bangalore
- Tanishka Kachru, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
- K K Kailash, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- A. Kalam, C. K. Prahalad Centre for Emerging India, Loyola campus, Chennai
- Vidya Kalaramadam, Willliam Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
- Sangeeta Kamat, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Uma S Kambhampati, University of Reading, Reading, UK
- Milind Kandlikar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada,
- Kalpana Kannabiran, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad.
- Ankur Kapoor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Geeta Kapur, independent art critic, New Delhi
- Manju Kapur, writer and ex faculty Miranda House College, Delhi University, Delhi
- Ajit Karnik, Mumbai/Dubai
- Massoud Karshanas, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K
- Malavika Kasturi, University of Toronto, Canada
- Nilofer Kaul, Delhi
- Nitasha Kaul, University of Westminster, UK
- Rajender Kaur, William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA
- Mukul Kesavan, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
- Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Rana Khan, Toronto, Canada
- Stuti Khanna, IIT Delhi, Delhi
- Sushil Khanna, (Retd.), Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
- Reetika Khera, IIT, Delhi
- Ateya Khorakiwala, Princeton University, NJ, USA
- Ayesha Kidwai, , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Viktoriya Kim, Osaka University, Japan
- Praveena Kodoth, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum
- Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University, MD, USA
- Ashok, Kotwal, (Emeritus): The University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C, Canada
- Ashutosh V. Kotwal, Duke University, Durham, USA
- Astrid von Kotze, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
- Jane Krishnadas, School of Law, Keele., UK
- Preeti Krishnan, Bengaluru
- Radhika Krishnan, IIT Hyderabad
- Aishwary Kumar, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, USA
- Arun Kumar, Institute of Social Sciences, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
- Avinash Kumar, Jawaharla Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Deepak Kumar, JNU, New Delhi
- Nita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, USA
- Udaya Kumar, Centre for English Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
- Rachel Kurien, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Somjita Laha, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka University, Delhi
- Vinay Lal, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Rachel Lee, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
- Roselyn Lemus, Mexico City, USA
- Mark Liechty, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Cynthia A. Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University, PA, USA
- David Lelyveld, New York, USA
- Karen Leonard, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA
- Jinee Lokaneeta, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA
- Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- David Ludden, New York University, New York, USA
- Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor, New York University, USA.
- Anuja Madan, Kansas State University, Kansas, USA.
- Punnappurath Madhavan, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
- Aruna Magier, New York University, New York, USA
- Darshini Mahadevia, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
- Swadesh M Mahajan, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Ram Mahalingam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Durairaj Maheswaran, NYU, New York, USA
- Pushkar Maitra, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia
- Bipasha Maity, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana
- Rochona Majumdar, The University of Chicago, USA
- Anshu Malhotra, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Meenakshi Malhotra, Hansraj college, Delhi
- Ashok Malla, McGill University, Canada
- Mukul Mangalik, Ramjas College, University of Delhi
- Anandi Mani, University of Oxford, UK
- Preetha Mani, Rutgers University, USA
- Nissim Mannathukkaren, Dalhousie University Canada.
- Anuradha Marwah, Zakir Hussain College, New Delhi
- Raveena Mascarenhas, Mangaluru
- Manu V. Mathai, Bengaluru
- John Mathew, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
- Shency Mathew, Gulati Institute of Finance & Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram
- Navdeep Mathur, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Deepak Maun, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
- Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK
- Rushi Mehta, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Uday S. Mehta, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
- Gayatri Menon, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru
- Kalyani Devaki Menon, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
- Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited, New Delhi
- Kalyani Menon-Sen, Independent Researcher, New Delhi.
- Tushar Meshram, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
- Zain R. Mian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- John Miller, Wheaton College, Massachussetts, U.S.A
- Raza Mir, William Paterson University, NJ, USA
- Payoshni Mitra, Independent researcher and activist, London, UK
- Siddhartha Mitra, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Sona Mitra, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi
- Gautam Mody, New Trade Union Initiative
- Nasreen A. Mohamed, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University, NY, USA
- Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
- Himansu S. Mohapatra, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
- Bidisha Mondal, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
- Radhika Mongia, York University, Canada
- Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, Boston MA, USA
- Sripad Motiram, University of Massachussetts, Boston, U.S.A
- Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick, UK
- Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Ankhi Mukherjee, University of Oxford, UK
- Arun P. Mukherjee, Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto, Canada.
- Ashesh Mukherjee, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Debraj Mukherjee, Ramjas College, Delhi
- Sajni Mukherji, Retd. Professor, English dept., Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Sanjukta Mukherjee, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
- Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University, UK
- Harbans Mukhia, Former Professor of History and Rector, JNU, New Delhi
- Akshaya Mukul, Delhi
- Angelie Multani, Academic, New Delhi.
- Kanta Murali, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Maroona Murmu, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Hema A Murthy, Dept. of CS&E IIT Madras
- Ishwar Murthy, IIMB, Bangalore
- M V N Murthy, Professor Emeritus, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
- Rajluxmi Vaish Murthy, IIMB, Bangalore
- Milind Murugkar , researcher, Nashik , India
- Barnali Nag, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
- Nagaraj, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
- Harini Nagendra , Bangalore
- Ratna Naidu, Professor (retd.) University of Hyderabad and former Vice Chancellor,
- Sirisha Naidu, Wright State University, Ohio
- Janaki Nair, JNU, New Delhi
- Constantine Nakassis, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Ashis Nandy, CSDS, Delhi
- Gaura Narayan, Purchase College State University of New York, USA
- Sudha Narayanan, Economist, Mumbai
- Balmurli Natrajan, Willliam Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
- Nandan Nawn, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi
- Nalini Nayak, Associate Professor (Retired), PGDAV (M) College, Delhi University
- Nandini Nayak, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
- Anuradha Dingwaney Needha, Oberlin College, OH, USA
- Neeraja D, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
- Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University (New Jersey), USA
- Madhurima Nundy, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
- Noreen O’Connor, King’s College, Pennsylvania
- Rupal Oza, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA
- Shivarama Padikkal, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Debabrata Pal, New Delhi
- Parthapratim Pal, IIM Calcutta, Kolkata
- Amrita Pande, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Bratati Pande, Retired, Delhi University, Delhi
- Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Rajyashree Pandey, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
- Kavita Panjabi, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Ameet Parameswaran, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Rajendra Parihar Ramjas College, Delhi
- Parthasarathy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
- Sujata Patel, National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla
- Krishna Patel, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
- Shekhar Pathak, Historian and Editor, Pithorgarh, Uttarakhand
- Vikram Pathania, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Prabhat Patnaik, (Emeritus): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Ramesh Patnaik, Andhra Pradesh Save Education Committee,
- Utsa Patnaik (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Sonali Perera, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Rosalind Petchesky, (Emerita):, Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY
- Geralyn Pinto, Mangalore
- Justin Podur, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Robert Pollin, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A.
- Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Anupama Potluri, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Gopalji Pradhan, School of Letters, Ambedkar, University Delhi
- R.Prakash. ARTIC, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh.
- Lokesh Malti Prakash, Activist & Writer, Office Secretary, All India Forum for Right to Education
- Anup Pramanik, Indian Institute of Management, Indore
- Madhu Prasad. New Delhi
- Vijay Prashad, LeftWord Books.
- Navtej Purewal, SOAS University of London
- Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, Boston, USA
- Bandana Purkayastha, Grafton, MA, USA
- Meena Radhakrishna, former faculty, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
- Raghavendra, N. Faculty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
- Harriet Raghunathan, Jesus and Mary College (retired), New Delhi
- Rohit Rahi, London School of Economics, UK
- Shirin M. Rai, Warwick University, UK
- Rajeswari Sarla Raina, Scientist, New Delhi
- Anisa Rahim, Jersey City, NJ
- Arvind Rajagopal, New York University, New York, USA
- Mrinalini Rajagopalan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Advaita Rajendra, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Prabina Rajib, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
- Surampudi Bapi Raju, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
- Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington, Seattle
- Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto, Canada
- Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Vasanthi Raman, Independent social scientist, New Delhi
- Bharat Ramaswami, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
- Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University, Durham USA
- Kavitha Ranganathan, IIM-Ahmedabad
- Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, American University, Washington, DC
- Surabhi Ranganathan, University of Cambridge, UK
- Ajay Rao, University of Toronto, Canada
- Anupama Rao, Barnard College, New York, USA
- Govinda Rao, (Emeritus): National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Bangalore
- Mohan Rao, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
- Mohan Rao, JNU, New Delhi
- Nitya Rao, University of east Anglia, Norwich, UK
- Sumathi Rao, Harish-chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
- Rashmi Kumari, IIM Ahmedabad
- Manav Ratti, Salisbury University, MD, USA
- Chitra Ravi, visiting faculty at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India.
- Anushnath Ravichandran, Coimbatore
- Vikas Rawal, Jawaharlal Nehru Uiversity, New Delhi
- Debraj Ray, New York University, New York, USA
- Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Ranjan Ray, Economist, Melbourne, Australia
- Aparna Rayaprol, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Chandan Reddy, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
- Gayatri Reddy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Rammanohar Reddy, (Visiting): Goa University, Hyderabad
- Rohit Revi, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
- Shaunna Rodrigues, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Dunu Roy, Director, Hazards Centre, New Delhi
- Mallarika Sinha Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Modhumita Roy, Tufts University, USA
- Parama Roy, University of California, Davis
- Satyaki Roy, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi
- Srila Roy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Srirupa Roy, University of Göttingen, Germany
- Anamitra Roychowdhury, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Marlene Rutzendorfer, Harvard University Visiting Scholar, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Sachin N, Dyal Singh college, New Delhi
- Niladri Saha, Basirhat College, West Bengal
- Poulomi Saha, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, University of Delhi., Delhi
- Arupjyoti Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
- Rajgopal Saikumar, New York University, New York, USA
- Kalyani Samantray, Visiting Professor, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
- Padmanabh Samarendra, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
- Preeti Sampat, Ambedkar University Delhi.
- Samson, Nizamabad district, Telengana
- Sudipto Sanyal, Techno India University, Kolkata
- Aditya Sarkar, University of Warwick, UK
- Sumit Sarkar, (Retired): Delhi University, New Delhi
- Tanika Sarkar, (Retired): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Akshya Saxena, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Susan Seizer, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, USA
- Abhijit Sen, Retd from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Hari Sen, Ramjas College, Delhi
- Nivedita Sen, Hansraj College, Delhi
- Rukmini Sen, Ambedkar University, New Delhi
- Sambuddha Sen, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi
- Sanghita Sen, St Andrews University, UK
- Abhijit Sengupta, University of Essex, UK
- Debjani Sengupta, IP College, Delhi University, Delhi
- Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi, Delhi
- Puneet Seth, Beachwood, Ohio
- Sanjay Seth, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- Svati P. Shah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
- Rachna Shanbog, Dublin, UK
- Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College, USA
- Arul Shankar, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Shiva Shankar, Scientist, Chennai.
- Alpana Sharma, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
- Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto, Canada
- Shailja Sharma, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
- Shilpa Sharma, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Abhishek Shaw, Economic & Political Weekly, Mumbai
- Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Sherin B.S, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
- Parinitha Shetty, Mangaluru, Karnataka
- Tim Shiell, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
- Snehal Shingavi, Associate Professor, English, University of Texas, Austin
- Anooradha Iyer Siddiqui, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
- Amritjit Singh, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
- Harjinder Singh, IIIT- Hyderabad.
- Natasha Singh, Oakland, CA
- Pritam Singh, Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford
- Radhika Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Supriya Singh, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
- Upinder Singh, University of Delhi, New Delhi
- Vidhu Singh, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Dipa Sinha, Ambedkar University Delhi
- Rita Sinha, Janki Devi Memorial College, Delhi
- Shana Sippy, Centre College, KY, and Carleton College, MN, USA
- Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- Sobha Rani, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Srilata, K., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
- Jeena T Srinivasan, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad
- Krithika Srinivasan, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Ravindran Sriramachandran, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana
- Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
- Priyanka Srivastava, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
- Hamsa Stainton, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Domna C. Stanton, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
- Abigail J. Stewart, University of Michigan
- Catherine Stimpson, New York University, New York, USA
- Sivagami Subbaraman, Washington D.C., USA
- Binaya Subedi, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- K Venkata Subrahmanyam, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai.
- Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
- Lakshmi Subramanian, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes, France
- Narendra Subramanian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Subramanian, Independent Scholar and former ICSSR National Fellow, Chennai.
- Mita Sujan, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
- Nandini Sundar, Delhi University, New Delhi
- Vivan Sundaram, artist, New Delhi
- S. Sunder, retired professor, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
- Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, New York University, U.S.A.
- Shamina Talyarkhan, New York, USA
- Ashwini Tambe, University of Maryland, MD, USA
- Tanima, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Akshaya Tankha, University of Toronto, Canada
- Anand Teltumbde, GIM, Goa
- Tariq Thachil, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Manish Thakur , IIM Calcutta, Kolkata
- Binitha Thampi.. IIT Madras, Chennai
- Susie Tharu, Hyderabad
- Dania Thomas – University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Thomas Joseph Thoomkuzhy, Gulati Institute of Finance & Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram
- Miriam Ticktin, The New School for Social Research, NYC, USA
- Ahmet Tonak, (Visiting): University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.
- Nasir Tyabji, formerly with Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
- Sahana Udupa, Professor of Media Anthropology, University of Munich (LMU), Germany
- Lalit Vachani, CeMIS, University of Göttingen
- Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
- Vamsi Vakulabharanam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
- Achin Vanaik, Retd from Delhi University, New Delhi
- Sarah Van Arsdale, NYU and Antioch University/LA
- Hendrik Van Den Berg, (Emeritus): University of Nebraska, U.S.A
- Poornima Varma, IIM, Ahmedabad.
- Rahul Varma, playwright and artistic director of Teesri Duniya Theatre
- Rashmi Varma, Warwick University, UK
- Rohit Varman, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
- Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
- Sylvia Jane Vatuk, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Malathi Velamuri, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
- Shikha Verma, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- K. Vijayan, Hindu College, Delhi
- Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge, UK
- Sujata Visaria, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
- Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Kamala Visweswaran, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
- Shweta Wagh, KRVIA Mumbai
- Gareth Wall , University of Birmingham, UK
- Jini Watson, New York University, New York, USA
- Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College, USA
- Thomas Weisskopf, (Emeritus): University of Michigan, U.S.A
- Jeannette Wicks-Lim, PERI, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , USA
- David Winter, (Emeritus): University of Michigan, USA
- Pramod Yadava, Retd Professor, JNU, New Delhi
- Louise Yelin, Professor Emerita, Purchase College, Purchase NY, USA
- Nobuharu Yokokawa, Musashi University, Japan
- Shundana Yusaf, University of Utah, USA
Over 600 academics, scholars from India and abroad express "deep anger and anguish" over Kathua, Unnao in an open letter to PM
The Prime Minister of India,
Prime Minister’s Office, South Block,
Raisina Hill, New Delhi 110 001.
21 April 2018
Mr Prime Minister,
We are academics and independent scholars from India and abroad, writing to express solidarity with, and to endorse the sentiments expressed by, forty-nine retired civil servants in their open letter to you of April 16th 2018 (https://sabrangindia.in/article/honble-pm-modi-we-write-express-our-shame-anguish-and-rage).

Along with these civil servants and countless other citizens of India and the world at large, we wish to express our deep anger and anguish over the events in Kathua and Unnao and the aftermath of these events; over the efforts, in both cases, of those administering the relevant States to protect the alleged perpetrators of these monstrous crimes; over the subsequent profoundly distasteful efforts of rationalisation, deflection and diversion that have been so much in evidence in the reactions of your party’s spokespersons in the media; and finally over your own prolonged (and by now familiar) silence that was broken only recently with wholly inadequate, platitudinous, and non-specific assurances of justice for the victims.
Kathua and Unnao are not isolated incidents. They are part of a pattern of repeated targeted attacks on minority religious communities, Dalits, tribals and women, in which rape and lynching have been employed as instruments of violence by gau rakshaks and others, in a sequence of events spread across Dadri in Uttar Pradesh (2015), Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir (2015), Bijapur and Sukma in Chhattisgarh (2015-16), Harda in Madhya Pradesh (2016), Latehar in Jharkand (2016), Una in Gujarat (2016), Rohtak in Haryana (2017), Delhi (2017), Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh (2017), and now Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh (2018).
Many of these events have occurred in States with BJP Governments, and all of them after the BJP assumed power at the Centre. This is not to associate violence exclusively with your party and with State governments presided over by your party. But there is an undeniable association with the ruling dispensation.
There is little evidence, in government action, of an appreciation of the importance of providing assistance to vulnerable sections of the society – whether through promotional measures aimed at enabling tribals and nomads to have access to forest and common property rights, or through preventive measures aimed at discouraging blatant breaches of the rule of law. Even the Allahabad High Court on April 12th 2018 observed: “If this is the conduct of the police in the state, whom will a victim approach to register a complaint? If this is the stand you are repeatedly taking then we will be forced to observe in our order that law and order has collapsed in the state”.
We send you this letter because it is our duty to do so; so that we are not guilty of silence; and so that callousness and cowardice might finally draw the line at the broken body of a little girl and the rape of a young woman.
Signed:
List of signatories
- N Abhilaasha, Centre for Urban Equity, Ahmedabad
- Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Arnab Acharya, Independent researcher, Washington D.C.
- Anindita Adhikari , Brown University, USA
- Tanvir Aeijaz, Ramjas College, Delhi
- Farzana Afridi, Delhi
- Aftab Ahmad, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, San Diego State University, CA, USA
- Aniket Alam, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
- Seema Alavi, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Meena Alexander, Hunter College/Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
- Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster, UK
- Anandhi, Chennai.
- Krishna Ananth, SRM University – AP Amaravati
- Mary Anderson: Harvard University and Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA
- Aneesh, K.A., Jawaharlal Nehru Institute, New Delhi
- Gil Anidjar, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Anitha Kumary L, Trivandrum
- Sundari Anitha, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
- Annamalai, University of Chicago, USA
- Shaik Dawood Ansari, Open Campus Madang, University of Papua New Guinea
- Arjun Appadurai, New York University, New York, USA
- Anjali Arondekar, UCLA, USA
- Balveer Arora, Emeritus Professor and Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism
- P K Yasser Arafath, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Shoba Arun, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
- Arunima, JNU, New Delhi
- Nina Asher, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
- Kiran Asher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
- Prashanth Asuri, Santa Clara University, USA
- Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington, USA
- Venkatesh Athreya, Social Activist and Retired Academic, Chennai
- Madhav Badami, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Amiya Kumar Bagchi, (Emeritus), Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata
- Barnita Bagchi, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Neha Bagle, IIM Ahmedabad
- Vidura Jang Bahadur, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Amit R. Baishya, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
- Mira Bakhru, Retd faculty, IIM Bangalore, Bnagalore.
- Aparna Balachandran, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Radhika Balakrishnan, Rutgers University, U.S.A
- Sai Balakrishnan, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
- Sujata Balasubramanian, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
- Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Retd Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
- Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Arindam Banerjee, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Chinmoy Banerjee, Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
- Sukanya Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
- Sumanta Banerjee, Independent Researcher, Hyderabad
- Parama Barai, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
- Syamal Kumar Basak (Retd), Presidency College/University, Kolkata
- Rakesh Basant, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Alaka Basu, Cornell University, U.S.A
- Amrita Basu, Amherst College, Mass, USA
- Deepankar Basu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
- Kunal Basu, University of Oxford, UK
- Lopamudra Basu, University of Wisconsin-Stout
- Kanika Batra, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
- Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
- Rana P. Behal, University of Delhi, India.
- Jyothsna Belliappa, Bangalore
- Yael Berda, Hebrew University and Harvard University, USA
- Amit Bhaduri, (Emeritus), JNU, New Delhi.
- Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, University of Mississippi
- Manu Bhagavan, Hunter College and the Graduate Center-CUNY, New York, USA
- Alok Bhalla, Former Professor of English, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
- Sheila Bhalla, (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Visiting: Institute of Human Development, New Delhi
- Brenna Bhandar, SOAS, University of London, London UK
- Gauri Bharat, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
- Ira Bhaskar, JNU, New Delhi
- Saurabh Bhattacharjee, The WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
- Baidik Bhattacharya, University of Delhi. Delhi
- Neeladri Bhattacharya, Retd from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Sucheta Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Devaki Bhaya, Stanford, CA, USA
- Bhangya Bhukya, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, U.S.A.
- A K Biswas, Former Vice-Chancellor, B R Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar
- Bënil Biswas, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Moinak Biswas, Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Cavery Bopaiah, Bangalore
- Mita Bose, retired, Indraprastha College, Delhi University and currently Adjunct faculty at ICFAI Business School, Gurugram, Haryana
- Tirthankar Bose, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Saronik Bosu, New York University, New York, USA
- Guillaume Boucher, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- Milind Brahme, Chennai, India
- Vacha Brat, IIM, Ahmedabad
- Carmen Bugan, writer and independent scholar, Long Island, USA
- Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
- Maya Chadda, William Paterson University, NJ, USA
- Kunal Chakrabarti, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Achin Chakraborty, Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata
- Chandrima Chakraborty, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Lekha Chakraborty, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
- Madhurima Chakraborty, Columbia College Chicago
- Pinaki Chakraborty, New Delhi
- Rudrashish Chakraborty, Kirori Mal College, Delhi
- Shouvik Chakraborty, PERI, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
- Ranabir Chakravarti, JNU, New Delhi
- Paula Chakravartty, New York University, New York, USA
- Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia, USA
- Barnali Chanda, Techno India University, Kolkata
- Sudhir Chandra, Historian
- Vinita Chandra, Ramjas College, Delhi
- P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Tarun Chandrayadula, IIT Madras, Chennai
- Charusheela, University of Washington Bothell, USA
- Sayaka Chatani, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Amita Chatterjee, Retired Professor of Philosophy, Jadavpur University
- Ananya Chatterjea, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- Indrani Chatterjee, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Bangalore
- Suchetana Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Ruchi Chaturvedi, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Amit Chaudhuri, Writer, Calcutta
- Aparna Chaudhuri, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- Rosinka Chaudhuri, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
- Sudip Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
- Sukanta Chaudhuri, (Emeritus), Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Supriya Chaudhuri, (Emeritia). Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Wendy Chavkin MD, MPH, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Ying Chen, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
- Anuradha Mitra Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Dolores Chew, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Anita Chikkatur, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
- Camille Cole, Yale University, U.S.A
- Andrew Cornford, Geneva Finance Observatory, Switzerland
- Amrita Chhachhi, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
- Jagdeep Chhokar, Professor (Retired), Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad
- Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA
- Deborah Choate, MD, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, USA
- Noam Chomsky, ( Emeritus) Massachussetts Institute of Technology, and University of Arizona, U.S.A
- Deepta Chopra, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Elora Halim Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
- Indira Chowdhury Bengaluru, India
- Indranil Chowdhury, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Nusrat S Chowdhury, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA
- Sayandeb Chowdhury, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Francis Cody, University of Toronto, Canada
- Karen Coelho, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
- Camille Cole, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Jonathan R. Cole, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Andrew Cornford, Geneva Finance Observatory, Switzerland
- Romar Correa, (Retd from) University of Mumbai, Mumbai
- Vedita Cowaloosur, Charles Telfair Institute, Mauritius
- Vasudha Dalmia, (Emerita), University of California, Berkeley
- Katyayani Dalmia, The New School for Social Research, New York, USA
- Sumangala Damodaran, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Vinita Damodaran, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Bijay K Danta, Tezpur, Assam
- Jane D’Arista, U/Mass, Amherst, USA
- Debapratim Das, Guwahati
- Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati
- Mausumi Das, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
- Raju J. Das, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Samantak Das, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Shinjini Das, University of Oxford, UK
- Amlan Dasgupta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Anirban Dasgupta, South Asian University, New Delhi
- Indraneel Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
- Sunanda Dasgupta, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
- Sejuti Das Gupta, Michigan State University, USA
- Tanya Das Gupta, Toronto, Canada
- Minati Dash, ICSSR, New Delhi.
- Manipadma Datta, TERI School of Advanced Studies( Deemed University), New Delhi
- Ruth Davis, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Subah Dayal, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
- Rohit De, Yale University, New Haven, USA
- Ananya Debnath, Jodhpur, Rajastahn
- Sowmya Dechamma C C, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
- Narayana Delampady, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
- Minoo Derayeh, Toronto, Canada
- Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
- Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Jigna Desai, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
- Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- Miki and Madhavi Desai, Ahmedabad
- Renu Desai, Ahmedabad
- Anirudh Deshpande, Department of History, Delhi University
- Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
- Satish Deshpande, Delhi University, Delhi
- Sudhanva Deshpande, LeftWord Books, New Delhi
- Peter Ronald deSouza, CSDS, Delhi
- Sanchia deSouza, University of Toronto, Canada
- Devika, J. Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
- Ritu Dewan, Centre for Development Research and Action; Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai
- Bikramjit Dey, The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
- Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton, U. K
- Biswajit Dhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Anubha Dhasmana, Bangalore
- Roopa Dhawan, Ramjas College, Delhi University
- Jean Dreze, (Visiting): Ranchi University
- Rohan D’Souza, Kyoto University, Japan
- Prasenjit Duara, Duke University, Durham, USA
- Navroz K. Dubash, New Delhi
- Vebhuti Duggal, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Durga Bhavani, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Madhumita Dutta, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Nandini Dutta, Miranda House, Delhi
- Souraj Dutta, St Andrews University, UK
- Nata Duvvury, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Carolyn Elliott, Professor Emerita, University of Vermont
- Meher Engineer, All India Forum on the Right to Education, New Delhi
- Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Pradeep Esteves, Context India, Bangalore
- Richard Falk, (Emeritus): Princeton University, U.S.A
- Alfredo Saad Filho, Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London
- Michelle Fine, CUNY, New York, USA
- Nancy Folbre, PERI, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
- Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, State University of New York Oswego, USA
- Colm Fox, Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences, Singapore
- Smitha Francis, New Delhi
- Karen Gabriel, St Stephen’s College, Delhi
- Rahul K Gairola, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
- Toral Gajarawala, New York University, New York, USA
- Rajmohan Gandhi, Gurgaon
- Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Gangadhar, All India Forum for Right to Education
- Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
- Geetanjali Shree, Writer
- Maitreesh Ghatak, London Shool of Economics, U.K
- Saran Ghatak, Professor, Keene State College, USA
- Asher Ghertner, Rutgers University, USA
- Professor Aisha K. Gill, University of Roehampton, UK.
- Sayantan Ghosal, University of Glasgow, UK
- Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University, U.S.A
- Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Partha Ghosh, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
- Suman Ghosh, Florida Atlantic University , USA
- Geetha Gokul, St. Thomas’ College, Trichur, Kerala
- Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge, UK
- Radha Gopalan, Independent Researcher and Educationist, Goa
- Gayatri Gopinath, New York University, New York, USA
- Manu Goswami, New York University, New York, USA
- Gregory Goulding, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
- Paul Greenough, University of Iowa, USA
- Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta, Kolkata
- Akhil Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles
- Bishnupriya Gupta, Warwick University, UK
- Ruchira Gupta, New York University and University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A
- Sayan Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai.
- Smita Gupta, independent economist, New Delhi
- Vikas Gupta, Department of History, Delhi University, Delhi
- Vishal Gupta, Ahmedabad
- Dean Gupta-Casale, Kean University, NJ, USA
- Nira Gupta-Casale, Kean University, NJ, USA
- Jaideep Gupte, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK
- Shubhra Gururani, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Abha Dev Habib, Miranda House, Delhi
- John Harriss, Simon Fraser University and Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Goettingen, Germany
- Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi, Delhi.
- Zoya Hasan, (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Rim Hassen, Warwick University, UK
- Neeraj Hatekar, University of Mumbai, Mumbai
- John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Indira Hirway, Center For Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad
- Nalini Iyer, Seattle University, USA
- Priyadarshini Iyer, IIM – Ahmedabad
- Srikanth Krishnan Iyer, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Vijay Iyer, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- Krati Jain, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
- Sanjay Jain, University of Oxford, UK
- Sarandha Jain, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Sheena Jain, formerly Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
- Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College, Deublin, Ireland
- Sadia Jamil, Islamabad, Pakistan
- Russell Janis, J.D., University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
- Niraja Gopal Jayal, JNU, New Delhi
- Jayaraj, retired economist, Chennai
- Rajshri Jayaraman, ESMT Berlin, Germany
- Katherine Jellison, Ohio University, USA
- Praveen Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Gita Johar, Columbia University, New York, USA
- May Joseph, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
- Yogi Joseph, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Chitra Joshi, Delhi University, New Delhi
- Rutul Joshi, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
- Amalendu Jyotishi, Amrita School of Business, Bangalore
- Tanishka Kachru, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
- K K Kailash, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- A. Kalam, C. K. Prahalad Centre for Emerging India, Loyola campus, Chennai
- Vidya Kalaramadam, Willliam Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
- Sangeeta Kamat, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Uma S Kambhampati, University of Reading, Reading, UK
- Milind Kandlikar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada,
- Kalpana Kannabiran, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad.
- Ankur Kapoor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Geeta Kapur, independent art critic, New Delhi
- Manju Kapur, writer and ex faculty Miranda House College, Delhi University, Delhi
- Ajit Karnik, Mumbai/Dubai
- Massoud Karshanas, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K
- Malavika Kasturi, University of Toronto, Canada
- Nilofer Kaul, Delhi
- Nitasha Kaul, University of Westminster, UK
- Rajender Kaur, William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA
- Mukul Kesavan, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
- Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Rana Khan, Toronto, Canada
- Stuti Khanna, IIT Delhi, Delhi
- Sushil Khanna, (Retd.), Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
- Reetika Khera, IIT, Delhi
- Ateya Khorakiwala, Princeton University, NJ, USA
- Ayesha Kidwai, , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Viktoriya Kim, Osaka University, Japan
- Praveena Kodoth, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum
- Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University, MD, USA
- Ashok, Kotwal, (Emeritus): The University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C, Canada
- Ashutosh V. Kotwal, Duke University, Durham, USA
- Astrid von Kotze, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
- Jane Krishnadas, School of Law, Keele., UK
- Preeti Krishnan, Bengaluru
- Radhika Krishnan, IIT Hyderabad
- Aishwary Kumar, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, USA
- Arun Kumar, Institute of Social Sciences, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
- Avinash Kumar, Jawaharla Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Deepak Kumar, JNU, New Delhi
- Nita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, USA
- Udaya Kumar, Centre for English Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
- Rachel Kurien, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Somjita Laha, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka University, Delhi
- Vinay Lal, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Rachel Lee, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
- Roselyn Lemus, Mexico City, USA
- Mark Liechty, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Cynthia A. Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University, PA, USA
- David Lelyveld, New York, USA
- Karen Leonard, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA
- Jinee Lokaneeta, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA
- Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- David Ludden, New York University, New York, USA
- Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor, New York University, USA.
- Anuja Madan, Kansas State University, Kansas, USA.
- Punnappurath Madhavan, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
- Aruna Magier, New York University, New York, USA
- Darshini Mahadevia, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
- Swadesh M Mahajan, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Ram Mahalingam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Durairaj Maheswaran, NYU, New York, USA
- Pushkar Maitra, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia
- Bipasha Maity, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana
- Rochona Majumdar, The University of Chicago, USA
- Anshu Malhotra, University of Delhi, Delhi
- Meenakshi Malhotra, Hansraj college, Delhi
- Ashok Malla, McGill University, Canada
- Mukul Mangalik, Ramjas College, University of Delhi
- Anandi Mani, University of Oxford, UK
- Preetha Mani, Rutgers University, USA
- Nissim Mannathukkaren, Dalhousie University Canada.
- Anuradha Marwah, Zakir Hussain College, New Delhi
- Raveena Mascarenhas, Mangaluru
- Manu V. Mathai, Bengaluru
- John Mathew, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
- Shency Mathew, Gulati Institute of Finance & Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram
- Navdeep Mathur, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Deepak Maun, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
- Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK
- Rushi Mehta, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Uday S. Mehta, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
- Gayatri Menon, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru
- Kalyani Devaki Menon, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
- Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited, New Delhi
- Kalyani Menon-Sen, Independent Researcher, New Delhi.
- Tushar Meshram, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
- Zain R. Mian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- John Miller, Wheaton College, Massachussetts, U.S.A
- Raza Mir, William Paterson University, NJ, USA
- Payoshni Mitra, Independent researcher and activist, London, UK
- Siddhartha Mitra, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Sona Mitra, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi
- Gautam Mody, New Trade Union Initiative
- Nasreen A. Mohamed, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University, NY, USA
- Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
- Himansu S. Mohapatra, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
- Bidisha Mondal, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
- Radhika Mongia, York University, Canada
- Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, Boston MA, USA
- Sripad Motiram, University of Massachussetts, Boston, U.S.A
- Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick, UK
- Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Ankhi Mukherjee, University of Oxford, UK
- Arun P. Mukherjee, Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto, Canada.
- Ashesh Mukherjee, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Debraj Mukherjee, Ramjas College, Delhi
- Sajni Mukherji, Retd. Professor, English dept., Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Sanjukta Mukherjee, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
- Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University, UK
- Harbans Mukhia, Former Professor of History and Rector, JNU, New Delhi
- Akshaya Mukul, Delhi
- Angelie Multani, Academic, New Delhi.
- Kanta Murali, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Maroona Murmu, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Hema A Murthy, Dept. of CS&E IIT Madras
- Ishwar Murthy, IIMB, Bangalore
- M V N Murthy, Professor Emeritus, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
- Rajluxmi Vaish Murthy, IIMB, Bangalore
- Milind Murugkar , researcher, Nashik , India
- Barnali Nag, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
- Nagaraj, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
- Harini Nagendra , Bangalore
- Ratna Naidu, Professor (retd.) University of Hyderabad and former Vice Chancellor,
- Sirisha Naidu, Wright State University, Ohio
- Janaki Nair, JNU, New Delhi
- Constantine Nakassis, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Ashis Nandy, CSDS, Delhi
- Gaura Narayan, Purchase College State University of New York, USA
- Sudha Narayanan, Economist, Mumbai
- Balmurli Natrajan, Willliam Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
- Nandan Nawn, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi
- Nalini Nayak, Associate Professor (Retired), PGDAV (M) College, Delhi University
- Nandini Nayak, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
- Anuradha Dingwaney Needha, Oberlin College, OH, USA
- Neeraja D, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
- Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University (New Jersey), USA
- Madhurima Nundy, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
- Noreen O’Connor, King’s College, Pennsylvania
- Rupal Oza, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA
- Shivarama Padikkal, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Debabrata Pal, New Delhi
- Parthapratim Pal, IIM Calcutta, Kolkata
- Amrita Pande, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Bratati Pande, Retired, Delhi University, Delhi
- Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Rajyashree Pandey, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
- Kavita Panjabi, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Ameet Parameswaran, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Rajendra Parihar Ramjas College, Delhi
- Parthasarathy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
- Sujata Patel, National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla
- Krishna Patel, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
- Shekhar Pathak, Historian and Editor, Pithorgarh, Uttarakhand
- Vikram Pathania, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Prabhat Patnaik, (Emeritus): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Ramesh Patnaik, Andhra Pradesh Save Education Committee,
- Utsa Patnaik (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Sonali Perera, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Rosalind Petchesky, (Emerita):, Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY
- Geralyn Pinto, Mangalore
- Justin Podur, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Robert Pollin, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A.
- Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Anupama Potluri, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Gopalji Pradhan, School of Letters, Ambedkar, University Delhi
- R.Prakash. ARTIC, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh.
- Lokesh Malti Prakash, Activist & Writer, Office Secretary, All India Forum for Right to Education
- Anup Pramanik, Indian Institute of Management, Indore
- Madhu Prasad. New Delhi
- Vijay Prashad, LeftWord Books.
- Navtej Purewal, SOAS University of London
- Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, Boston, USA
- Bandana Purkayastha, Grafton, MA, USA
- Meena Radhakrishna, former faculty, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
- Raghavendra, N. Faculty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
- Harriet Raghunathan, Jesus and Mary College (retired), New Delhi
- Rohit Rahi, London School of Economics, UK
- Shirin M. Rai, Warwick University, UK
- Rajeswari Sarla Raina, Scientist, New Delhi
- Anisa Rahim, Jersey City, NJ
- Arvind Rajagopal, New York University, New York, USA
- Mrinalini Rajagopalan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Advaita Rajendra, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Prabina Rajib, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
- Surampudi Bapi Raju, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
- Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington, Seattle
- Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto, Canada
- Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
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There Is No Flag Large Enough To Cover The Shame Of Killing Innocent People

Some self-styled Indian patriots settled in UK have launched a petition seeking action against those who tore the Indian national flag recently.
Ever since Modi got elected as Prime Minister in 2014, attacks on religious minorities have grown. The BJP supporters frequently target Muslims and Christians, as well as so-called untouchables. Members of the Sikh minority fear assimilation, since the BJP considers Sikhs as part of the Hindu fold a claim that is vehemently denied by the Sikh leaders). Despite this, the BJP and Hindu Right organizations have been directly or indirectly involved in attacks on Sikhs in the past and during recent times.
The Indian government also reacted sharply to the “act of sacrilege,” and the UK has apologized for the incident.
It is understandable that people can be sensitive about national flags, but considering some recent developments in India, one can argue that this reaction is completely hypocritical.
In fact, the Indian state and its apologists outside the country have no moral right to grumble over what happened in London.
Do we need to remind them that the biggest disgrace to the flag was committed by supporters of the BJP when they rallied in support of those accused of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Kathua? belonged to a nomadic community. Some Hindu fanatics conspired to rape and kill her to not only humiliate her community, but to force them to migrate. Clearly, sexual violence was used as a political weapon on an innocent child.
Those who rallied in support of the perpetrators were seen waving the Indian national flag. We need to ask those shedding tears for a torn flag, wasn’t this shameful? Where were these patriots when the national flag was used in defence of the rapists and murderers?
This wasn’t the first time that BJP supporters used the national flag in defence of those involved in heinous crime. Earlier, the dead body of a Hindu extremist who was convicted for the murder of a Muslim and had died due to illness was draped in the national flag. Why was such outrage missing when the coffin of a Hindu bigot was covered with the national flag?
A nation is not defined by a land mass, its boundaries or its national icons, such as flags or emblems. It is represented by its people. These patriots should rather be upset over what the current government and its supporters are doing to the citizens, by denying them equal rights, raping them and killing them with impunity, in complete contradiction to what the Indian constitution stands for. The fashionable patriots who are carried away by a symbolic gesture of protesters in London should rather ask themselves whether or not the Indian constitution is based on the principles of religious freedom and equality? If that is true, then their anger must be directed at Modi and his cohorts, instead of those who only wanted to draw international attention to the ongoing violence against minorities in India.
Gurpreet Singh is a Canada- based journalist who publishes Radical Desi- a monthly magazine that covers alternative politics.
There Is No Flag Large Enough To Cover The Shame Of Killing Innocent People

Some self-styled Indian patriots settled in UK have launched a petition seeking action against those who tore the Indian national flag recently.
Ever since Modi got elected as Prime Minister in 2014, attacks on religious minorities have grown. The BJP supporters frequently target Muslims and Christians, as well as so-called untouchables. Members of the Sikh minority fear assimilation, since the BJP considers Sikhs as part of the Hindu fold a claim that is vehemently denied by the Sikh leaders). Despite this, the BJP and Hindu Right organizations have been directly or indirectly involved in attacks on Sikhs in the past and during recent times.
The Indian government also reacted sharply to the “act of sacrilege,” and the UK has apologized for the incident.
It is understandable that people can be sensitive about national flags, but considering some recent developments in India, one can argue that this reaction is completely hypocritical.
In fact, the Indian state and its apologists outside the country have no moral right to grumble over what happened in London.
Do we need to remind them that the biggest disgrace to the flag was committed by supporters of the BJP when they rallied in support of those accused of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Kathua? belonged to a nomadic community. Some Hindu fanatics conspired to rape and kill her to not only humiliate her community, but to force them to migrate. Clearly, sexual violence was used as a political weapon on an innocent child.
Those who rallied in support of the perpetrators were seen waving the Indian national flag. We need to ask those shedding tears for a torn flag, wasn’t this shameful? Where were these patriots when the national flag was used in defence of the rapists and murderers?
This wasn’t the first time that BJP supporters used the national flag in defence of those involved in heinous crime. Earlier, the dead body of a Hindu extremist who was convicted for the murder of a Muslim and had died due to illness was draped in the national flag. Why was such outrage missing when the coffin of a Hindu bigot was covered with the national flag?
A nation is not defined by a land mass, its boundaries or its national icons, such as flags or emblems. It is represented by its people. These patriots should rather be upset over what the current government and its supporters are doing to the citizens, by denying them equal rights, raping them and killing them with impunity, in complete contradiction to what the Indian constitution stands for. The fashionable patriots who are carried away by a symbolic gesture of protesters in London should rather ask themselves whether or not the Indian constitution is based on the principles of religious freedom and equality? If that is true, then their anger must be directed at Modi and his cohorts, instead of those who only wanted to draw international attention to the ongoing violence against minorities in India.
Gurpreet Singh is a Canada- based journalist who publishes Radical Desi- a monthly magazine that covers alternative politics.