Solidarity statement condemning attack on

students and faculty members of JNU

We, the undersigned faculty members of IIT Bombay, strongly condemn the violent attack on students and
faculty members of Jawaharlal Nehru University on the evening of January 5, 2020. We see this as part of
systematic attacks on all institutions in the country, including academic ones. We have watched with dismay
the failure of universities and other academic institutes to protect their members; the cases are too many to
be all listed here, but along with JNU we name Aligarh Muslim University and Benaras Hindu University, and
even Jamia Millia Islamia where the administration has vocalized its attempt to defend the students.

We reassert the right of freedom of expression the Constitution of India grants us, and thus the right of
intellectual engagement that follows from it including the right to debate, dissent, and protest
democratically and peacefully within academic campuses as well as outside. We emphasize the intellectual
autonomy of academic institutions to function without fear.

The undersigned have issued this statement in their personal capacity.

Signatories in alphabetical order:

1. Abhijit Majumder 16. Anush Kapadia 31. Debasattam Pal

2. Aftab Alam 17. Arindam Chowdhury 32. Debjani Paul
3. Ahonaa Roy 18. Arpita Mondal 33. Debraj Chakraborty
4. Akshay 19. Arun Inamdar 34. Dibyendu Das
5. Aliasgar Contractor 20. Arun Iyer 35. D Parthasarathy
6. Amitabha Nandi 21. Arun Mascarenhas 36. Dwaipayan Mukherjee
7. Amitabha Sanyal 22. Arup Ranjan Bhattacharyya 37. Guru
8. Amitabh Bhattacharya 23. Ashutosh Gupta 38. Harish Pillai
9. Amit Singh 24. Avijit Chatterjee 39. Himanshu Burte
10. Anandavardhanan 25. Avradeep Pal 40. Hridis Pal
11. Anil Kottantharayil 26. Bhalchandra Puranik 41. Indradev Samajdar
12. Anindya Datta 27. Bhaskaran Raman 42. Jitendra
13. Anirban Sain 28. C D Sebastian 43. Jugal Verma
14. Anupam Guha 29. Chandra Venkataraman 44. Kameswari Chebrolu
15. Anurag Mehra 30. Dayadeep Monder 45. Kantimay Das Gupta
46. Kishore Chatterjee 82. Rajarshi Chakrabarti 118. Suddhaseel Sen
47. Krishnendu Sinha 83. Rajiv Dusane 119. Sudhir Ghorpade
48. Kushal Deb 84. Ramesh Bairy 120. Sundar Vishwanathan
49. Lalit Kumar 85. Rangan Banerjee 121. Suneet Singh
50. Madhu N Belur 86. Ratheesh Radhakrishnan 122. Supratik Chakraborty
51. Mahesh Tirumkudulu 87. Ravi Banavar 123. Supratim Biswas
52. Manoj Gopalkrishnan 88. Ritayan Mitra 124. Supreet Saini
53. M Aslam 89. Rohit Manchanda 125. Surajit Bhattacharyya
54. Mazhar Kamran 90. Ronnie Sebastian 126. Suryakant Waghmore
55. Mithun Chowdhury 91. Rochish Thaokar 127. Sushil Mishra
56. Mithun Mitra 92. Rowena Robinson 128. Swaroop Ganguly
57. Mrinal Kumar 93. Sahana Murthy 129. Swati Pal
58. Mukta Tripathy 94. Sai Vinjanampathy 130. Swati Patankar
59. Murali Srinivasan 95. Sameer Jadhav 131. Tara Shankar Shaw
60. N. Hemachandra 96. Santosh Noronha 132. T T Niranjan
61. Narayan Rangaraj 97. Sarika Mehra 133. Udayan Ganguly
62. Naresh K Chandiramani 98. Sarthak Gaurav 134. Umesh Bellur
63. NC Narayanan 99. Saurabh Lodha 135. Urjit Yajnik
64. Nina Sabnani 100. Sharad Bhartiya 136. Vaijayanthi Sarma
65. Nutan 101. Sharmila 137. Varsha Apte
66. N.Venkataramani 102. Sharmistha Saha 138. Vijay Naik
67. Om Damani 103. Shashikanth Suryanarayanan 139. Vikram Singh Sirola
68. P Sunthar 104. Shilpa Ranade 140. Vinay Juvekar
69. Patwardhan 105. Shishir K Jha 141. Viswanathan nn
70. Paulomi Chakraborty 106. Shiva Gopalakrishnan
71. Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil 107. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
72. Pradeepkumar P.I. 108. Siby K George
73. Pradeep Sarin 109. Siddhartha Chaudhuri
74. Prakriti Tayalia 110. Siddhartha Ghosh
75. Prasenjit Bhaumik 111. Siuli Mukhopadhyay
76. Prita Pant 112. Soumya Bera
77. Priya Jadhav 113. Sridhar Iyer
78. Puru 114. Srikanth Srinivasan
79. Puthenpurakal 115. Sriram Srinivasan
80. Raghunath Chelakkot 116. S S Major
81. Raja Mohanty 117. Sudarshan