New Delhi: With no resolution in sight for the ongoing crisis at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the situation is becoming more and more grave by the day. The constant attacks on the centre of higher education as the crisis continues to manifest have created a toxic environment where everything has come to a standstill.Concerned over the developments, a group of students, teachers, activists, artists, filmmakers and concerned individuals have written a statement in solidarity which urges JNU vice chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar and the JNU administration “to revisit the history of democratisation of universities and the role that the universities played in the struggle against hegemonic forces”.Read the full statement below:§We the undersigned strongly condemn the undemocratic and utterly high-handed attitude exhibited by the current administration and the vice chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), over the last few weeks. As our friends and colleagues from the university brave police brutality and march to make their demands heard, taking forward the ongoing resistance against the attack on the university and higher education in India, we would like to state, as students, teachers, activists, artists, filmmakers, and concerned individuals, some of us as ex-students of JNU, that we stand with them.We are shocked and appalled to see the administration’s horrifying attempts to normalise gender violence on the university campus. One among several deeply troubling instances of the failure of the newly instituted Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) is the persistent shielding by the JNU administration of Atul Johri of the Life Sciences Department, accused in cases of serial sexual harassment. The continuing refusal to suspend him, and the arbitrary questioning of the survivors over the past few days is condemnable. This deliberate breach of fundamental rights, as enshrined in the Indian constitution and the Vishakha guidelines, in our view constitutes a gross violation of what gender justice in a public university should stand for.This administration has taken a resolute stand against gender justice, with its prior dissolution of the long-established and hard-won Gender Sensitisation Committee against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH), unilaterally instituting in its place an Internal Complaints Committee, the composition of which gives the administration undue influence over due process. We are distressed by what the implications of this effective failure of the ICC are for women students, as they inhabit the university space, and join our voices with them in their fight to live and study without fear.In this regard, we know JNU students are not alone as there have been intense countrywide protests on university campuses in the recent past against a pattern of normalisation of harassment and gender discrimination as everyday affair. Student led movements at NIFT, Kannur, at the Banaras Hindu University, the Delhi University, the Aligarh Muslim University gather force and reveal the enduring strength of the collective voice, as well as the limits of the claimed shift in public discourse after the 2012 gang rape of Nirbhaya.The JNU administration’s high-handedness has been on habitual display in its unilateral decision-making. It has shown a complete disregard for reservation policies in JNU admission procedures, increasing the weight of the viva voce component from 30% to a 100%, without taking into account existing debates among students and teachers regarding the desirability of reducing viva marks from 30 percent of the admission procedure. The implementation of drastic seat cuts at the M.Phil/Ph.D level, the loss of deprivation points for students from disadvantaged social backgrounds and regions, the dissolution of the GSCASH, the raising of existing mess fees by 100% come together to reveal the clear and powerful agenda of the administration and country’s ruling dispensation to dismantle the existing substantive autonomy of universities in favour of an ‘autonomy’ articulated through the market.It is here that JNU students and teachers join the struggle in colleges and universities around the country, from Hyderabad Central University to the Film and Television Institute, Pune; Punjab University to the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, against the undoing of the potentiality of the university as a space in which students from different backgrounds can articulate a multiplicity of political futures. For instance, students at all four campuses of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) have been on strike since the TISS administration’s withdrawal of aid to students from marginalised communities who were eligible for the Government of India post-matric Scholarship scheme.In response to striking students the TISS administration has adopted silencing tactics not unlike the JNU administration, issuing legal notices to striking students, not allowing students to enter hostels if fees remain unpaid, among others. At the Assam Women’s University, students are part of ongoing protests against the state government’s proposal to downgrade the university, the only women’s university in Assam, to a technical institute. They are also demanding the appointment of a permanent vice chancellor, permanent faculty members and staff, as well as other necessary infrastructure, and have the support of student organisations from across the state of Assam. As these policies make it increasingly difficult for those coming from socially disadvantaged backgrounds to access higher education, push those already pursuing higher education into impossible often deathly precarity, the very educational model that produces dissenting thought is taken apart. Concomitantly, spaces of dissent in the university are made to shrink.In JNU, the administration has actively undertaken this through a series of vindictive, unlawful demands and measures. The witch-hunt against dissenting voices; the clamping of free speech; FIRs against peacefully protesting students; imposition of arbitrary fines on students, as well as the recently issued diktat to register compulsory attendance, all demonstrate the insecurity of a schizophrenic administration when exposed to the circulation of dissident ideas.The Vice Chancellor’s complete disregard for the integrity of the academic council, and the arbitrary removal of seven department chairs and deans including the chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, Professor Sucheta Mahajan, and Professor Kavita Singh, the Dean of the School of Arts and Aesthetics, in violation of long-established protocols and often the JNU statute and constitution itself, is the latest in the habitual display of the moral bankruptcy of the JNU administration.By now we have all seen the circulating footage and images of students and teachers standing in defiance against the might of the Delhi police. We have seen also in the midst of that press of bodies running from water cannon and lathis the JNU students’ union president Geeta Kumari addressing the very same police as she alerts them against the progressive erosion of the country’s education system and its effects on all our lives.As JNU goes into lockdown, we urge the Vice Chancellor and the JNU administration to revisit the history of democratisation of universities and the role that the universities played in the struggle against hegemonic forces. The history of student movements at the Jawaharlal Nehru University is imbued with a tradition of unprecedented solidarity between teachers and students. As friends and colleagues, students and teachers in universities and colleges around the country initiate an asymmetric fight we join our voices with theirs and urge you to do the same.Rukmini Chakraborty, Cornell University, New YorkParnisha Sarkar, University of Toronto, TorontoDevika Shankar, Princeton University, New JerseyMalavika Kasturi, Department of History, University of TorontoSamira J unaid, University of Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaBaishakh Chakrabarti, University of Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaAnirban Ghosh, Postdoctoral fellow, Ashoka UniversityRohan D’Souza, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, J apanSarandha J ain, Anthropology Department, Columbia University, New YorkSohini Chattopadhyay, History Department, Columbia University, New YorkAviroop Sengupta, PhD student, Columbia UniversityUponita Mukherjee, Columbia University, New YorkSamyak Ghosh, Columbia University, New YorkIshan Mukherjee, Economic and Political Weekly, MumbaiDebarati Bagchi, Adamas University, KolkataAnwesha Sengupta, Institute of Development Studies, KolkataKaustubh Mani Sengupta, Bankura University, West BengalAnandaroop Sen, University of Cape TownPratyay Nath, Ashoka University, SonipatMaria-Daniela Pomohaci, Georg-August Universität, GöttingenRadhika Chadha, Miranda House, University of DelhiGaurav Garg, History Department, New York University, New York.Somak Biswas, of History, University of Warwick, UKAndrew Burchell, of History, University of Warwick, UKDeepasri Baul, Centre for Historical Studies, J awaharlal Nehru University, DelhiShrikant Botre, of History, University of Warwick, UKSnigdha Singh, Miranda House, University of DelhiDevi Vijay, Indian Institute of Management CalcuttaDebjani Sengupta, Indraprastha College for Women, University of DelhiDebobroto Sensharma, Trinity College DublinRupam Banerjee, West Bengal State University, KolkataShounak Ghosh, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, NashvilleMar ewa Karwoski, MESAAS Department, Columbia University in the City of New YorkKarim Malak, Columbia University, New YorkSitharthan Sriharan, MESAAS Department, Columbia UniversityPartha Chatterjee, Columbia University, New YorkAnashya Ghoshal, formerly of the Department of History, Presidency University, KolkataSanghamitra Deb, ex-student, Department of Film Studies, J adavpur University, KolkataSanjukta Deb, ex-student, Department of English, Bethune College, Calcutta UniversitySoumyadeep Roy, ex-student, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, KolkataSubhanil Chowdhury, Institute of Development Studies KolkataNikhil Menon, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USADhiraj Barman, Presidency University, KolkataSwapna Banerjee, Associate Professor, History, Brooklyn College of the City University of New YorkIndranil Mukhopadhyay, O P J indal University, Sonipat, Haryana, IndiaSoumya Mandi, J adavpur University, KolkataAditi Mukherjee, Leiden University, the NetherlandsNeelanjana Shakya, ex-student, The English and Foreign Languages University, HyderabadKanti Sur, University of Calcutta & Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Patna centre)Shaunna Rodrigues, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia UniversityNiyati Shenoy, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia UniversityRohit Dutta Roy, Faculty of History, University of CambridgeWiktor Ostasz, History Faculty, University of OxfordRana Baker, MESAAS, Columbia UniversityBasma Radwan, MESAAS, Columbia UniversitySugata Bag, Department of Economics, Delhi School of EconomicsLavanya Nott, Cornell University, New YorkAnindya Sengupta, J adavpur University, KolkataSakshi, University of CambridgeSayori Ghoshal, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia UniversityMuhammed Niyas Ashraf, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Culture and Societies, Freie University BerlinAnirban Kapil Baishya, Cinema and Media Studies Division, University of Southern 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Khan, SOAS, University of LondonParama Chaudhuri, School of Education, Indiana University BloomingtonShweta Krishnan, George Washington UniversityUsha Iyer, Dept of Art and Art History, Stanford UniversityAnustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAditya Ramesh, School of Oriental and African Studies, LondonNamratha Minupuri, Emory UniversityPrashant Kumar, University of PennsylvaniaArnab Dey, State University of New York at BinghamtonSanghita Sen, University of St Andrews, UKShrey Kapoor, Cornell University, New YorkBrinkley Messick, Columbia University, New YorkMeenu Deswal, University of Michigan–Ann ArborTitas De Sarkar, SALC, University of ChicagoKathryn Zyskowski, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, SeattleOeendrila Lahiri, ex-CES, J NUSeema Sareen, Tejii’s Transparency Filmart, New DelhiPrita Bali, Department of Film Studies, J adavpur UniversityFrederick Tucker, Department of Sociology, the Graduate Center, CUNYMeghna Sengupta, Department of Film Studies, J adavpur UniversityShaivya Mishra, University of California, BerkeleyShailza Sharma, SOAS, University of LondonAarthi, National University of SingaporeSangita Saha, University of Michigan, Ann ArborPallavi, EFL, Tezpur UniversityBedatri Datta Choudhury, Independent Scholar (Formerly Tisch School of the Arts, New York University)Vikrant Dadawala, University of PennsylvaniaMampi Bose, ex-CESP, J NUShantanu De Roy, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New DelhiAparajita Majumdar, Cornell University, New YorkMrinalini Chakravorty, University of VirginiaMaroona Murmu, Department of History, J adavpur University, KolkataFebe De Geest, Department of Geography, University of MelbourneTuhin Bhattacharjee, New York UniversityNikita Lamba, (e-student) Department of History, Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi UniversityRajarshi Sircar, Hotelier, Sales Manager, KolkataShruti Sengupta, (Ex Student SAA), Documentary FilmmakerSubhajit Chatterjee, Department of Film Studies, J adavpur UniversityDoyeeta 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BerkeleyAnamika Das, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka, IndiaPratik Chakrabarti, University of Manchester, UKAhitagni Roy Chowdhury, Designer, KolkataKhaliq Parkar, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, PuneGayatri Nair, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, HyderabadUjithra Ponniah, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, HyderabadKrithi S, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, HyderabadBiswanath Saha, Institute of Development Studies, KolkataDebalina Ghosh, Designer, KolkataAR Vasavi, Social Anthropologist, BengaluruAntony Thomas, Senior J ournalist (Retired)ESM Aslam, Department of History, The New College, ChennaiPriyanka Kumar, Bengaluru (ex- School of Arts and Aesthetics, J NU)Pavel Pal, Department of Mathematics, Bankura University, West BengalRavi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi175: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, I SER, MohaliSyamal Kumar Basak (Retd), Department of Mathematics, Presidency University, KolkataRashmi Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi UniversityPriyanka Khanna, IGNOU, New Delhi (ex-CHS, J NU)Abdul Rahman, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, HyderabadParichay Patra, BITS Pilani, Goa CampusKrittika Sengupta ,Patha Bhavan, KolkataSanam Roohi, J oseph’s (Autonomous), BangaloreShikha Sen, Documentary Film Editor, New Delhi, (ex CHS 1980- 1982)Satwati Dutta, BKGCH, West BengalSujit Thomas, Deptt of Anthropology, New York University, New YorkParul Abrol, Freelance J ournalist, J NU alumniShahnaz Akhter Dept of Politics and International University of WarwickSara Arab, Masters Candidate, The Graduate Insitute of International and Development Studies , GenevaShadab Arab, PhD Candidate, University of GenevaAnand Teltumbde, Writer and Civil Rights ActivistTarun Karmakar, Teacher, West KolkataArnab Chakraborty, University of York,Amit Upadhyay, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, HyderabadAnish Vanaik, J indal Global Law School, SonipatAakshi Magazine, University of St Andrews, UKShalini Shekhar, Publishing Professional, New DelhiVanessa Chishti, Jindal Global Law School, SonipatSantosh Verma, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, HyderabadSita Mamidipudi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, HyderabadAvishek Konar, Jindal Global Law School, SonipatDivya Sharma, University of SussexSnehashish Mitra, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS),Rahul Menon, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, HyderabadPooja Satyogi, Ambedkar University, DelhiPreeti Singh, The Ohio State University (former MA/ PhD, J NU)Upendra Prasad Singh , Bhasa Publishers, Ranchi (MA J NU)Probal Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, KolkataAbhijit Gupta, Department of English, Jadavpur UniversityRahul Nair, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio (MA, J NU)Akshay Dafade, Designer, BangaloreDebapriya Roy, United Nations Climate Change, Bonn, GermanyLalyi Uddin, University of LondonGarima Sahai, University of Cambridge, UKMaidul Islam, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, CalcuttaRashmi Singh, University of 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LondonNandini Bhattacharya, Lecturer in History, University of Dundee, UK 247 Ayushi Madan, SHS, Ambedkar University DelhiRikimi Madhukaillya, Associate Professor- Pearl Academy, DelhiUpal Chakrabarti, Presidency UniversityAnanya Chakraborty, ex-student, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur UniversityDeblina Dey, J indal Global Law School, P. 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University of PennsylvaniaAkhauri Nitish Kumar(Research Scholar), MSPU, MoscowRovel Sequeira, Graduate Student, University of PennsylvaniaJ ayadev Athreya, Associate Professor, University of WashingtonAnamarija Horvat, PhD Researcher, Northumbria University, UKMeghna Nag Chowdhuri, University of Cambridge, UKAyesha Sheth, University of Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaBijoya Roy, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New DelhiRanabir Samaddar, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, KolkataOyndrila Sarkar, Heidelberg University, GermanyTariq Thachil, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USAYengkhom J ilangamba, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, GuwahatiAnnu J alais, National University of Singapore, SingaporeJ ohn Thomas, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, I T Guwahati, GuwahatiAnurag Advani, Graduate Student, SSEAS, University of California, BerkeleyAtreyee Gohain, Department of English, University of North FloridaAniruddh Sheth, Azim Premji University, BangalorePiyali Chakraborty, Self-EmployedShibani Ganguli, School Teacher, West BengalTanmay J aswal, Self Employed, GurgaonSuchismita Chattopadhyay, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (ex-CPS, J NU)Mandakini Dubey, Department of English, Ashoka University (Haryana)Ritambhara Mehta, Nazariya: A Queer Feminist Resource Group (M.A. Politics (International Studies, SIS, 2007-09)Jack Loveridge, The Cooper Union, New YorkHariharan, Ashoka University, HaryanaDebarati Roy, Employed, BangaloreRavindran Sriramachandran, Ashoka University, DelhiKanika Singh, Ashoka University, SonepatPreeti Kumari, Doctoral candidate, I T Delhi, J NU AlumnusDurba Chattaraj, Ashoka University, SonepatSubhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Retired, Presidency College, KolkataAditi Chaturvedi, Ashoka University, SonepatIman Mitra, Centre for Development Practice and Research, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, PatnaMonisha dhingra, Ashoka University, HaryanaIndrajit Hazra, Journalist, The Economic Times, New DelhiSayantani Adhikary, Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, FaltaTulsi Srinivasan, Ashoka University, SonepatSounak Kar, ex student, Dept of direction and screenplay writing, SRFTI, KolkataShruti Jain, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, PatnaArundhati Dasgupta, Pearl Academy, New DelhiAnamika Priyadarshini, TISS Patna Centre, PatnaTeja Varma Pusapati, Shiv Nadar University, Greater NoidaSowjanya, TISS, HyderabadVinod Koshti, ex-SLL&CS, J NUSubhasri Chatterjee, City, University of LondonArijit Ghosh, KolkataManish Shrivastava, (ex-CSSP/ SSS), J t Seceretary, IPTA National CommitteeAnirban Bandyopadhyay, EMMRC, Xavier’s College, KolkataIshani Dasgupta, University of Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaSwati Mitchelle Dsouza, Associate Fellow, The Energy and Resources InstituteMeenakshi, PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, SwitzerlandRamya Devi, (ex CSSS/ SSS), Educational Consultant, Tamil NaduPayoshini Pandey, Undergraduate student, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, PuneRanbir Nerwal, Business, NewKalpana Mishra, Freelance J ournalist, New DelhiSuvritta Khatri, Associate Professor, Deshbandhu College, University of DelhiShri Prakash, Faculty, Department of Mass Communication, Xavier’s College, RanchiRadha Kumar, Self employed,Samina Mishra, Film Maker and Writer, New DelhiIona Sinha, New DelhiSamira J ain, Film Maker, New DelhiAarti, ex-SSS, J NUAnil Singh, Secretary General, South Asian Network for Social and Agricultural Development (SANSAD), New DelhiSoe Tjen Marching, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS- University of LondonRanjita Dawn, Assistant Professor, Loreto College, KolkataSubir Sinha, Development Studies SOAS, University of LondonRashmi Varma, Department of English, University of WarwickDr Vanja Hamzić, SOAS University of LondonProjit Bihari Mukharji, University of PennsylvaniaEleanor Higgs, SOAS University of London, UKNavtej Purewal, SOAS University of London, UKJens Lerche, SOAS University of London, UKManali Desai, University of Cambridge, UKSharmishthha Gupta, All India Radio, New DelhiRaghavendra Lal Das, (Retd.) Banker, Ex-CHS/ SSS, (1976-1982), J NUSitaram Singh, Theatre Activist, Ex-J NU Student (1976-1980)Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Senior Journalist and Writer, New DelhiSherna Dastur, Graphic Designer, DelhiNithya Natarajan, Royal Holloway, University of LondonMayur Suresh, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of LondonOindrila Bank officer. HooghlySwargajyoti Gohain, Ashoka UniversityVagish K J ha, IL&FS Education, NOIDAPoornima Paidipaty, Philomathia Research Fellow in History, Cambridge University, UKJ ohn Faulkner, SOAS, University of LondonBarbara Har iss-White, Oxford UniversityAnwesha Roy, King’s College LondonArun Kumar, Linnaeus University, SwedenMeera Visvanathan, Shiv Nadar University, DadriAayati Sengupta, the English and Foreign Languages University, HyderabadAmmel Sharon, University of Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaAlfredo Saad Filho, SOAS University of LondonArnab Ghosh,Leandro Vergara-Camus, SOAS University of LondonChaman Lal, Retired Professor, CIL/ SLL&CS, J NU, New DelhiAnushka Halder, J adavpur University & University of OxfordSahil Sasidharan, University of SheffieldAdrija Dey, SOAS University of LondonAfsar J afri, New DelhiHaimanti Roy, (University of Dayton)Sunanda Bhat, Filmmaker, BangaloreJ ayeeta Sharma, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, CanadaDaniel Bender, Professor, University of Toronto, CanadaMolly Varghese, The English and Foreign Languages University, HyderabadNadje Al-Ali, Professor of Gender Studies, SOAS University of LondonKanika Sharma, Lecturer, SOAS University of LondonKenneth Bo Nielsen, Norwegian Network for Asian StudiesChandra Shekhar Tibrewal, Social Activist, Somerville, MA, USAFeyzi Ismail, SOAS University of LondonGuruprasad, Employed in Private Sector, Chennai (Ex -CPS/ SSS, J NU)Ann Ninan, J ournalist, DelhiDivya Dwivedi, I T DelhiVidya Nidhi, Associate professor, Government College, Sunni, ShimlaSudip Kumar Saha, North-Eastern Hill University, ShillongJ acob Weile, South Denmark University in KoldingNilanjana Sinha, Burdwan UniversityDr Annapoorna Sharma, Consultant Paediatrician Oxford UKRavi Normandale, BA History (SOAS,London)Shalini Shekhar, Publishing professional, New DelhiDipak Roy, UNICEF (Retd.), (Student of J NU from 1976 to 1978 in Zakir Hussein Centre for Educational Studies)Ayesha Fatima, English honours, Sri Venkateswara CollegeAnoushka Sinha, English Honours, Sri Venkateswara CollegeBharat Narayanan, English Honours, Sri Venkateswara CollegeAkash Kumar, English Honours, Sri Venkateswara CollegeRanjana Dave, Gati Dance Forum (ex-student, School of Arts and Aesthetics, J NU), New DelhiGyanesh Kudaisya, Faculty, South Asian Studies, National University of SingaporeArvind Elangovan, History, Wright State UniversityArunava Sinha, Ashoka University, SonipatMatthew J . Nelson, Politics, SOAS, University of LondonVijayakrishnan, Bangalore (J NU SIS Alumnus)Bhavani Raman, Department of History, University of TorontoNandita Sehgal, Former IAS, (Ex student, SIS, J NU), DubaiSamira Sheikh, Department of History, Vanderbilt University (ex- student, CHS, J NU)Kavita Ratna, BangalorePamela Ghosh, Optometrist, KolkataJ ostein J akobsen, University of OsloRama Mantena, Department of History, University of Illinois at ChicagoPoonam Kapoor, Vasudeva Textile Designer and Proprietor of Black Tulip Design Studio for Home Furnishings and Fabrics and SareesMeera Samson, Director, CORD, New DelhiDilip Sarma, Centre for Humanistic Development, GuwahatiWinifred Poster, Washington University, LouisShreya Dutta, Pondicher y UniversityAnjali Dutta, KolkataJ ayasree Mukherjee , Pondicher y UniversityDeep Mukherjee, Alakriti, HyderabadAnurag Dasgupta, KolkataNamita Dey, KolkataVineetha Pondichery UniversityAritrika Lahiri, The Neotia UniversityPranab Roy, KolkataFaizi Hashmi, DelhiRui Oliveira, PhD Researcher, Northumbria University, United KingdomNalini Taneja, Associate Professor, School of Open Learning, Delhi University (retd.)Debashree Mukherjee, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia UniversitySeetha Kumar, LondonSabarna Roy, KolkataDebjani Nandy, KolkataSudur Roy, I EST, Shibpur, KolkataProfessor Emma Crewe, SOAS, University of LondonRuchi Chaturvedi, University of Cape TownAsanda Benya, University of Cape TownMrityunjay Prabhakar, Visva-Bharati University, SantiniketanUjjayan Bhattacharya, Vidyasagar University, MidnapurIshan Agarwal, National Centre for Biological Sciences, BangaloreSangeeta Ghosh, Economic & Political Weekly, MumbaiInmaculada Sanchez-Garcia, Northumbria University, UKIlina Sen, Feminist Scholar, (Retd) Professor, TISS, MumbaiRavi J oshi, Former Diplomat, Ex-Student of SIS, J NUMeena J oshi, EducatorSharmadip Basu, Azim Premji University, Bangalore (Ex-CESP, Ex- CAWES)Varuni Bhatia, Azim Premji University, Bangalore (Ex-CHS)Maya Saran, Ashoka University, HaryanaSonal Dhama, DesignerRohit Kumar, EducatorApoorv Avram, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, MumbaiHarshita Yalamarty, York University, Canada (ex-CPS, J NU)Teresa Barat, concerned citizen, New DelhiJ onas Hamberg, University of Waterloo, CanadaRahul Roy, film maker, Gurgaon, HaryanaSupriya Roy, Govt Officer, KolkataMadhureeta Anand, Film maker, New DelhiNatasha Badhwar, Writer and Film maker, New DelhiSonya Surabhi Gupta, J amia Millia Islamia, New DelhiAashti Kazmi, Student, Srishti Institute of Art and Design, BangaloreVivek Sagar Ghosh, Student, Indian Statistical Institute, DelhiSimin Patel, Director, Bombaywalla Historical WorksArunabha Banerjee, Executive Director – Alliance Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd.Prerna Gupta, Gargi College – DU (alumnus), London School of Economics and Political Science (alumnus)Christian Luczanits, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of LondonVijaya Rajni, Associate professor, D.U.J anaki Abraham, Associate professor, U.Sajal Head-Railways. AhmedabadReena Mohan, New DelhiSujata Mukherjee, teacher, KolkataSiddhartha Datta, post doctoral fellow, NCBSAparna Balachandran, Department of History, University of DelhiPragati Mohapatra, Department of History, Indraprastha College for Women, U.Manju Kapur writer and ex teacher Miranda House College Delhi UniversityRicha J ha, writer and publisher, NoidaGarima Bhat, CEO of Creatnet Services Limited, New DelhiPonni Arasu, MA, History (2005), PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Alumnus, J NUShahana Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Delhi UniversityRashmi Doraiswamy, J NU Alumnus, DelhiMadan Gopal Singh, J NU Alumnus, NCRDeborah Sutton, Lancaster University, J NU AlumnusDr Gun Nidhi Dalmia , Industrialist and WriterSatyaki Karmakar, University of CalcuttaDebak Das, Department of Government, Cornell UniversityPrabhat Garg, Entrepreneur, New DelhiMayukh IGNOU, Bharathiyar UniversitySyamantakshobhan Basu, Department of English, J adavpur UniversityPanchali Kar, Actor, Writer, Alumnus, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of TechnologySreejata Roy (former student of University of Calcutta)Reshmi Mukherjee, Institute Of Education (P.G) For Women, Chandernagore (Hooghly)Satyasikha Chakraborty, Rutgers University, New J erseyPriyanka Basu, The British Library LondonNavtej K. Purewal, Deputy Director, South Asia Institute, Reader in Political Sociology and Development Studies, SOAS University of London.Priyanka Basu, The British Library, LondonShari Daya, University of Cape Town, South AfricaApurba Goswami, Delhi UniversityKelsey Utne, Cornell University, New YorkAPA Kabeer, Ex CSSS/ SSS/ J NUDevasis Kundu, KolkataElisa Van Waeyenberge, SOAS University of London, UKSaumyashree Ghosh, Princeton University, New J erseyPradyumna J airam, King’s College, London (Ex CHS/ SIS)Swarnajyoti Basu, ex-student, Indian Institute of Aeronautical Science, KolkataPratichi, Department of History, University of California, Irvine (ex- CHS/ SSS)Anandi Rao, University of California, IrvineAlwin Franke, Columbia University, New YorkRei Terada, University of California, IrvineEyal Amiran, University of California, IrvinePragya Trivedi, University of California, IrvineNandita Badami, University of California, IrvineDr Rochana Bajpai SOAS University of LondonDr Prashant Kidambi, University of LeicesterAnannya Mukherjee, University of California, IrvineSaba Sharma, University of Cambridge, UKVatsal Naresh, Yale University, USATejas Parasher, University of ChicagoK Krishna Reddy, Freelance History Teacher at Hyderabad, ex- J NU Student, CHS/ SSS, 1980-82Mithu Sen, Artist, New DelhiAshok Beera, Travel writer and Photographer, Madrid, SpainShambwaditya Ghosh , Research Scholar , Ambedkar University, DelhiMeghna Nandy, Student, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, MumbaiSharmila Doyle, concerned citizen, New DelhiSelvyn J ussy, Associate Professor, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, IndiaK L Sharma, Associate Professor (retd.), of Economics, University of Rajasthan, J aipur.R Suryanarayana Reddy, Professor, Osmania University, J NU Alumnus, HyderabadNalini Dhariwal, Director, Youreka, DelhiVasudha Pande, New DelhiSadhna Saxena, , Deptt. Of Education, University of Delhi, DelhiGyan Prakash, Professor, Princeton University, USAVeronica Sousa, Graduate Student, Princeton University, USASophia Abbas, Graduate Student, Yale University, ConnecticutJ agat Sohail, Graduate Student, Princeton University, USANabaneet Bora, Visual Designer, New DelhiMathew Titus, Financial ConsultantRituparna Sengupta, Graduate Student, I T DelhiAnjali Monteiro, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, MumbaiJyotirmay Das, Graduate Student, I T DelhiSandip Datta, Graduate Student, I T DelhiRupali Bansode, Graduate Student, Indian Institute of Technology DelhiJ igisha Bhattacharya, MPhil, CSSSC Kolkata, former CES-J NUPritika Nehra, Alumna I T, DelhiP. J ayasankar, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, MumbaiPranav K Chaudhary (CHS / J NU1979-82), Freelance journalist and researcher Former Assistant Editor TOI Patna editionArpita Sengupta, Barasat Government College, West BengalSumita Sharma, Assistant Professor, Shyam Lal College, University of DelhiUpama Sen, Architect, KolkataGilbert Achcar, Professor, SOAS, University of LondonHimanshu Sagar, Pearl AcademyLise Bjerke, University of OsloSritama Chatterjee, J adavpur University, KolkataAnkit Prasad, J adavpur University, KolkataP. Geevan, Director, Centre for Environment and Social Concerns, Ahmedabad, Alumnus, J NUDebarati Sarkar, ex-student, Department of Comparative Literature, J adavpur University, KolkataRahul Rao, SOAS University of LondonSumallya Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New DelhiSVD Chandrasekhar, Tata Institute of Social SciencesHuzaifa Pandit, Research Scholar(English), University of KashmirSandip Debnath, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, I T DelhiRajiv, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, I T DelhiEsther Moraes, New DelhiShamindra Nath Roy, New DelhiMithun Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad. (Ex. CSMCH/ SSS/ J NU)Rani Rohini Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad. (Ex. CSMCH/ SSS/ J NU)Shireen Department of History, Calcutta University (Retired)Geeta Kapur, independent critic and author, New DelhiRitanjan Das, University of Portsmouth, UKManjira , Researcher, CLI, Alumni, I T KharagpurBimla Chand, J NU alumnus, AustraliaKumar, Prof of Management (Retd.), Guruvayurappan Institute of Management, CoimbatoreRabindra Hazari, Lawyer and J NU alumnus, MumbaiMeera Velayudhan, Policy Analyst( RULSG), CDS, TrivandrumGita Dang, J NU alumnus, New DelhiNitin George – Creative Director, ITSA, New DelhiAnindya Sengupta, Risk Analytics professional, alumnus of ISI Delhi, TorontoAnirban Dutta, Film-maker,Serina Mukhopadhyay, Teacher, KolkataSneha Lamba, Program, Bloomberg School of Public Health, J ohns Hopkins UniversitySumit Sarkar, (Retd.) Professor, Department of History, University of DelhiTanika Sarkar, (Retd.) Professor, CHS/ SSS, J NUSA Khan , Chief Regional Manager, GSFC, VadodaraSamata Biswas, Department of English, Bethune College, KolkataSudeshna Deb, ex-student, MSc Physics, Calcutta UniversitySoumitra Deb, ex-student, R.G. Kar Medical College, KolkataSarah Naqvi, Student, National Institute of Design, AhmedabadHasnain Naqvi, lecturer, Xavier’s College, MumbaiIndira Chandrasekhar, Publisher, Tulika Books, New Delhi, IndiaSnigdha Sircar, (Retd.) Teacher, Loreto, Elliot Road and Heritage School, KolkataPrasun Sircar, (Retd.) Medical Representative, Abbot Pharmaceuticals, KolkataDeepak Saran, former student, SIS, J NU, (Retd.) IAS, HP CadreVivan Sundaram, ArtistGulammohammed Sheikh, ArtistNilima Sheikh, ArtistAnuradha Kapur, Theatre director, former head of National School of DramaMatan Cohen, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University, New YorkManas Dutta, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West BengalTarangini Sriraman, Azim Premji University, BangaloreManjeet Ramgotra, SOAS University of London, UKDebjani Banerjee, Adjunct faculty, English department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus, Lucy Stone HallRebeca Robertson, Senior Analyst Programmer, SOAS, University of LondonShirin Rai, Professor of Politics & International Studies, The University of WarwickEleanor Newbigin, Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern India, SOAS, University of LondonShivani Kapoor, P. Jindal Global University, Haryana.