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Caste-discrimination and institutional harassment at IIT Kanpur

According to a ​news report published in the Indian Express on 1 April 2019​, the Senate at the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur has recommended revocation of the PhD degree of Dr.
Subrahmanyam Saderla, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He is
an alumnus of the same institute, where he received his MTech and PhD degrees. The revocation
of his degree would result in the termination of his position at the institute. The senate’s
recommendation will reportedly be placed before the institute’s Board of Governors soon, where
the final decision rests.

Dr. Saderla, who is a member of a Scheduled Caste, joined IIT-Kanpur in January 2018. A ​news
report of 19 April 2018 on the website newsclick.in indicates that upon joining the institute, he was
the subject of a sustained campaign of caste-based discrimination by four senior professors –
Ishan Sharma, Sanjay Mittal, Rajeev Shekhar and Chandra Shekhar Upadhyaya, who made
casteist remarks against him and questioned his mental fitness to be an assistant professor at the
institute. He submitted a complaint regarding this against the four professors, which was taken up
by a three-member committee set up by the institute.

According to Dr. Saderla’s complaint, he was humiliated and ridiculed at conferences organised by
his department and in social settings including one dinner party at the home of one of the four
senior professors. The complaint also reported that emails had been circulated among faculty
members questioning his credentials. The Indian Express quoted him saying “In addition to the
caste-based discrimination I have been facing by the hands of these professors since the day I
joined IIT Kanpur, they have now started making random allegations on my research work…They
started digging up things against my wife. I am continuously being harassed and anonymous
emails against me are doing the rounds in the institute.”

The three member committee found that Dr. Saderla’s allegations were true and recommended
that the institute’s Board of Governors take action against the four senior professors. Following
this, at the board’s request, a retired judge of the Allahabad High Court investigated the complaint
once again, and also found the accusations against the four professors to be true.

According to an ​Indian Express report of 20 November 2018​, following the committee’s

recommendations and the retired judge’s findings, the institute’s Board of Governors decided to
demote Sanjay Mittal and Chandra Shekhar Upadhyaya, and let off Ishan Sharma with a warning.
Rajeev Shekhar had meanwhile been appointed director at IIT Dhanbad and thus shielded from
institutional action at IIT Kanpur. According to the same report the Kanpur police also registered a
First Information Report under Section 500 (defamation) of the Indian Penal Code, the Information
Technology Act, and the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against
the four professors. The National Commission for the Scheduled Castes also took cognisance of
the case on the basis of a complaint submitted by Dr. Saderla, and issued an order that the
institute lodge an FIR against the four professors under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
and suspend them from duty; this order was stayed by the Allahabad High Court on an appeal by
the four.

IIT Kanpur’s faculty forum has sided with the four senior professors who were found guilty of
caste-based harassment by the university appointed committee and stand accused of an atrocity
under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. On ​22 November 2018, The Indian Express
reported that a group comprising 130 faculty members resolved to “divest” the institute’s Deputy
Director and the Head of the Aerospace Engineering Department, who were seen as supportive of
Dr. Saderla, at an “emergency meeting” convened after the filing of the FIR. They demanded that
the institute “defend” the four professors and bear their legal expenses. The forum requested that
faculty members contribute voluntarily to a “legal defence fund” for the four professors.

It is in this climate where a large section of the faculty body of the institute is hostile to Dr. Saderla
that the current developments have taken place. An anonymous email sent to several faculty
members on October 15, 2018 alleged that Dr. Saderla had plagiarised sections of his doctoral
thesis on parameter estimation of unmanned aerial vehicles using flight test data at low and high
angles of attack. The anonymous complaint was referred to the institute’s Academic Ethics Cell,
which investigated the complaint and submitted its report in November 2018.

The report of the nine member ethics committee found “no reason to revoke the thesis” according
to the Indian Express. It stated “...there is no allegation of plagiarism with regards to the scholar’s
research work comprising his creative and technical part of the dissertation, including detailed
experiments, tables, figures and the conclusions drawn from them. Thus the only instances of
copying are restricted to certain introductory passages in several chapters and mathematical
basics and preliminaries.” The nine member committee in its report stated “the committee felt that it
would not be proposed to consider revocation of the thesis” instead recommending that Dr. Saderla
rewrite the passages in question and submit an updated thesis in a month, and tender an apology
letter to the institute’s director for his “misdemeanour.” Dr. Saderla complied with these
recommendations and duly submitted an updated thesis and letter of apology within the
recommended time period. However, in a meeting of the institute’s Senate on 14 March 2019, it
voted to have Dr. Saderla’s PhD revoked.

News reports based on Right-to-Information requests have revealed that IIT-Kanpur is woefully
behind in implementing the constitutionally mandated reservation of faculty positions for Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Dr. Saderla is one of only four Scheduled Caste faculty members at
the institute, of a total of 394. In fact, he was recruited in the first place on a special drive to appoint
faculty members from among the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. It has also been
reported that three-fourth of all students who have dropped out of, or been expelled from, the
institute belong to socially marginalised sections, including the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled
Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Persons With Disabilities. In such a climate, Dr. Saderla’s
statement to the Indian Express that “the recommendation to revoke my thesis is only a ploy to
torture me” stands legitimised. The institute’s senate's actions smack of a vendetta against Dr.
Saderla, following the success of his complaint of caste-based harassment and discrimination
against four senior professors who enjoyed wide support among the institute’s faculty members.

We, the undersigned, are a worldwide group of scholars, academics, activists and others, who are
dismayed by IIT-Kanpur’s vindictive attitude towards and actions against the young Scheduled
Caste scholar Dr. Saderla. We call upon the institute’s senate to rescind its recommendation to
revoke Dr. Saderla’s thesis, and to adhere to the institute’s own Academic Ethics Cell’s
recommendations which found “no reason to revoke the thesis.” We further urge the IIT-Kanpur
community, as members of one of India’s distinguished academic institutions, to take cognisance
of the alleged climate of hostility and alienation suffered by scholars of marginalised social sections
at the institute – whether students or faculty – and take proactive measures to address their
concerns.

Signed

1. Aakash Singh Rathore, Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla

2. Abdul Matin, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur
University
3. Abhinav Basak, PhD Scholar, IIT Kanpur
4. Abhishek Atreya, Bose Institute, Kolkata
5. Abhishek Bhattacharyya, PhD candidate, University of Chicago
6. Abhishek Dhar, Professor, International centre for theoretical sciences, Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
7. Abir Dasgupta, Independent Journalist, Mumbai
8. Abu Anand, Research Scholar, University of Toronto, Canada
9. Achin Vanaik, Former Professor of IR and Global Politics, Delhi University
10. Addanki Hareesh,IIT BHU Varanasi
11. Adhip Agarwala, Postdoctoral Fellow, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore
12. Aditi Maddali, Research Scholar, TISS Mumbai
13. Ajay Bhardwaj, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
14. Ajay Gorla, Nizam College, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY Hyderabad
15. Ajay Kaladharan, Research Scholar, Oklahoma State University, USA
16. Akash Gautam, Assistant Professor, Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, Univerity
of Hyderabad
17. Akash Gautam, Assistant Professor, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
18. Akhil Kumar, Professor of Information Systems and SCIS Research Fellow, Smeal
College of Business, Penn State University
19. Alam Khan. Research scholar, IISc Bangalore.
20. Alex George, Navayana
21. Alladi Sitaram, Professor Emeritus, Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru
22. Alladi Uma, University of Hyderabad
23. Alli Sateesh Kumar, Software Engineer, TCS Hyderabad
24. Alok Bajpai, Psychiatrist
25. Alok Laddha, Chennai Mathematical Institute
26. Alokmay Datta, Raja Ramanna Fellow, CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research
Institute, Kolkata
27. Alpa Shah, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, London School of
Economics
28. Amit Upadhyay, TISS Hyderabad.
29. Amita Kanekar, Independent Researcher
30. Amiya Dev, formerly of Jadavpur University, Kolkata
31. Ananya Parikh, Research Scholar, JNU and Visiting Faculty, SSLA, Pune
32. Anayat Bhat, Research Scholar, University of Konstanz,Germany
33. Andrew Halladay, Ph.D. student, University of Chicago
34. Anindita Bera, Post doctoral fellow, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel
35. Anindya Banerji, Postdoc, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
36. Anish Vanaik, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat.
37. Anjali Monteiro, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
38. Anushka Sen, PhD student, Indiana University
39. Aparna Mohan, PhD student, IIT Madras
40. Aparna Ros P, PhD Research Scholar, Department of HSS, IIT Bombay
41. Apoorva Nagar, Assoc. Professor, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
42. Aravindhan Nagarajan, Research Scholar, TISS Mumbai
43. Arijeet Mandal, Assistant Professor, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University
44. Arjun Jayakumar, PhD Student, IIT Madras
45. Arpan Saha, Doktorand, Universität Hamburg.
46. Arul Shankar, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
47. Arun Som, IIT Bombay
48. Arundhati Roy, Writer and Activist, New Delhi
49. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Adjunct Faculty, IIT Madras.
50. Ashok Sircar, Professor, Azim Premji University
51. Ashoke Sen, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
52. Asrith Dasari, IIT Bombay
53. Atul Anand, Research Scholar
54. Avijit Pathak, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, New Delhi
55. Avinash Kumar, Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi
56. Avishek Konar, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School
57. Ayesha Kidwai, Jawaharlal Nehru University
58. Badri Raina, Retired Faculty, Delhi University
59. Balaji S B, Completed PhD degree in Indian Institute of Science, Completed Masters in
IITK
60. Bhanu Pratap Das, Professor of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
61. Bhanuj Kappal, independent journalist, Mumbai
62. Bhavtosh Bansal, Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata
63. Bidyut Kumar Patra, Faculty, NIT Rourkela, Rourkela, Odisha.
64. Bindhulakshmi P, Faculty, TISS Mumbai
65. Biri Arun, NIT Rourkela, Odisha
66. Bursenla, Alumni - Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
67. C R Pradeep, Professor, CIT Tumkur
68. Chandan Gowda, Professor of Sociology, School of Development, Azim Premji
University, Bengaluru
69. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Distinguished Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies,
Syracuse University, USA
70. Charles Xu, PhD candidate, Caltech, California, US
71. Chinmoy Banerjee, Retired Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada
72. Chloe Drewett, PhD Student, University of Adelaide
73. Claudio Cassardo, Professor, University of Torino, Italy
74. Dakshina Ranjan Kisku, Associate Professor, National Institute of Technology Durgapur,
India
75. Darshana Mitra, Student, Columbia Law School
76. Dattaraj Dhuri, Research Scholar, TIFR Mumbai
77. David Graeber, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
78. David Mumford, Fields Medal Recipient, MacArthur Fellow, University Professor
Emeritus in the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
79. Debrup Chakraborty, Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
80. Deepak Kapur, Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of
New Mexico
81. Dhiman Chatterjee, IIT Madras
82. Dilip M Menon, Mellon Chair in Indian Studies, University of Witwatersrand
83. Dinesh Mohan, IIT Delhi
84. Dolores Chew, Liberal Arts Program Coordinator, Marianopolis College, Westmount,
Canada
85. Dona Biswas, Research Scholar, Ambedkar University, Delhi
86. Dr AK Ghosh, IIT Kanpur
87. Dr Satyaki Roy, IIT Kanpur
88. Dr Sunny Sandhu , Alumnus AIIMS , Founder AtelierOM
89. Dr. A K Biswas, Retired IAS and former Vice-Chancellor, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Bihar
University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar
90. Dr. Anand Teltumbde, Senior Professor and Chair - Big Data Analytics, Goa Institute of
Management
91. Dr. Anant Parghi, Assistant Professor, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of
Technology (SVNIT), Surat,Gujarat-INDIA
92. Dr. Ananth Shankar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
93. Dr. Aparna Sundar, Independent Scholar, Toronto, Canada
94. Dr. B Karthik Navayan, Hyderabad
95. Dr. B Shobha, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of
Hyderabad
96. Dr. Bhanukiran Perabathini, Assistant Professor, Mahindra Ecole Centrale, Hyderabad
97. Dr. Bittu K.R., Associate Professor, Ashoka University
98. Dr. C.D. Modhera, Professor, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology
(SVNIT), Surat,Gujarat-INDIA
99. Dr. Debasattam Pal, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT
Bombay
100. Dr. Dulari Hansdah, NIT Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
101. Dr. Faruk Azam, Postdoc Scholar, The University of Tokyo & The University of Lille,
France
102. Dr. G Vijay, School of Economics, University of Hyderabad
103. Dr. Goldy M. George, Activist, Social Scientist, Writer, Chattisgarh
104. Dr. Hiren Gohain, Assam
105. Dr. Koonal Duggal, New Delhi
106. Dr. Lalit Saini, Assistant Professor, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of
Technology (SVNIT), Surat,Gujarat-INDIA
107. Dr. Luis Dias, MBBS, DGO (OBGYN), DNB (OBGYN), DRCOG (London), MRCGP
(London) now founder and Project Director of Child’s Play India Foundation
www.childsplayindia.org)
108. Dr. Mallarika Sinha Roy, JNU
109. Dr. Manu V. Mathai, Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University, India.
110. Dr. Nagarjuna G. Alumnus IIT Kanpur, Associate Professor, HBCSE, TIFR.
111. Dr. Pankaj Tame, PhD IIT Bombay
112. Dr. Priya Kurian, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of
Waikato, New Zealand
113. Dr. Rajender Kumar, Assistant Professor, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of
Technology (SVNIT), Surat,Gujarat-INDIA
114. Dr. Ranganatha N, Karnataka
115. Dr. Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios
Superiores en Antropología Social, México DF
116. Dr. Sowmya Dechamma, Associate Professor, Centre for Comparative Literature,
University of Hyderabad
117. Dr. Sylvia Karpagam, Public health doctor
118. Dr. Umakant, Independent Scholar, New Delhi
119. Dr. V. Ranjth Babu, Associate Professor, SNIST, HYDERABAD.
120. Dr. Vivek Kalyankari, Assistant Professor, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of
Technology (SVNIT), Surat,Gujarat-INDIA
121. Dr. Yash Paul Kundal, Principal, Government Degree College, Ramnagar, Jammu
and Kashmir
122. Dr.A.Suneetha, Senior Fellow, Anveshi RCWS, Hyderabad.
123. E Asaithambi, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Pachaiyappa College,
Chennai
124. Elancheran T S, Software Engineer, California, US
125. Eleanor Newbigin, SOAS, London, UK.
126. Emiliana Cruz, CIESAS-CDMX
127. Enakshi Bhattacharya, IIT Madras
128. Fleur D’Souza, Retired Associate Professor of History, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
129. Francesca Matrone, PhD student, Italy
130. Gautam Bharali, Professor ofMathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
131. Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia
University
132. Gayatri Menon, Associate Professor, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
133. Gayatri Nair, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
134. Gee Imaan Semmalar, Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni, Bangalore
135. Giribabu D,Assistant Professor, MANIT Bhopal
136. Giuditta Soccali, PhD candidate, Politecnico and University of Torino, Italy
137. Gutta Rohith, Human Rights Forum
138. Harjinder (Laltu) Singh, IIIT-Hyderabad.
139. Harsh Kapoor, Independent Researcher and Archivist, New Delhi
140. Hartman de Souza, Author
141. Hema Preya Selvanathan, PhD student, University of Massachusetts Amherst
142. Hrushikesh Naik, National Institute of Technology ROURKELA
143. Ishan S Bhadoria, Alumni TISS Mumbai
144. Ishan, Civil society Activist,Ranchi
145. J Devika, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
146. Jaesica Chandan, Ashoka University
147. Jagdish Chand, Centre for Education and Communication, Mathura, UP
148. Jai Sen, Independent Researcher, Editor
149. Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Professor, School of Technology and Computer Science,
TIFR, Mumbai
150. Jayant Lele, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
151. Jenny S, Researcher, Centre for Equity Studies, Delhi
152. Jens Lerche, Reader (Professor), Department of Development Studies, SOAS,
London
153. Jit hazarika, PhD Candidate, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
154. Jitendra Shah, ex-faculty, VJTI, Mumbai
155. Joby Joseph, University of Hyderabad
156. Joe Godinho, Management Consultant at IP-Innovation Partnership, Ireland.
157. Joel Lee, Assistant Professor, Williams College, USA
158. John Drury, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Sussex, UK
159. Joya Roy, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
160. K. Murali Krishnan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Calicut
161. K. Srilata, IIT Madras
162. Kamalakar Duvvuru, Freelance writer, Hyderabad
163. Kamlesh Bharodiya, Alumnus, IIT Kanpur
164. Kanthi Swaroop, IIT Bombay
165. Karthikeyan Damodaran, Visiting Fellow, University of Goettingen, Germany
166. Kartikeya Jain, New Delhi
167. Khaliq Parkar, NMIMS University, Mumbai
168. Koel Das, IISER Kolkata
169. KP Jayasankar, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
170. Krishna Hanumanthu, Chennai Mathematical Institute
171. Kriti Budhiraja, Research Scholar, Sociology, University of Minnesota.
172. Kunal Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University
173. Kuriakose Mathew, IIT Bombay
174. Kushal, BS-MS Student, IIT Madras
175. Labani Jangi, PhD student, CSSSC, Kolkata
176. Leslee Lazar, visiting faculty, IIT Gandhinagar
177. M Sridhar, Retired Professor, Department of English, University of Hyderabad
178. M. V. Ramana, Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and alumnus of IIT, Kanpur
179. Madhavi Shivaprasad, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
180. Madhusudhan Raman, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
181. Mahendra Gaikwad, IIT Delhi, Hydraulic Engineer-Germany
182. Mahendranath R, Masters student, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
183. Maitreyee Saha Sarka, SINP, Kolkata
184. Maitreyee Shukla, M.Phil Research Scholar, IIT Bombay
185. Mallika Sarabhai, Dancer, Choreographer, Actor, Activist, Ahmedabad
186. Manoj Puravankara, Reader, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
187. Maroona Murmu, Associate Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University
188. Mary John, CWDS New Delhi.
189. Mathew D. Marques, Lecturer, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe
University, Australia
190. Matta Vyshali Nanda, IIT(BHU) Varanasi
191. Miray Philips, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
192. Mohammad Afzal Shadab, Grad Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
193. Mohan D, Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad
194. Mritunjay Kumar, PhD Scholar, IIT Kanpur
195. N Raghavendra, Faculty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
196. Nairit Sur, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
197. Nandini Chandra, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
198. Nandini Sundar, Delhi University
199. Naresh Kumar Sharma, University of Hyderabad
200. Naveen Gaur, Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi), Delhi, India.
201. Naveen Surendran, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum
202. Nicolas Jaoul, Research officer, CNRS, IRIS/EHESS, Paris
203. Nihav Dhawale, PhD Candidate, NCBS-TIFR, Visiting Scholar - Yale University.
204. Nijil Lal C. K., Research Scholar, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
205. Nikhila Henry, Writer and Journalist
206. Nilima Regina Topno, Associate Professor, National Institute of Fashion Technology,
Patna
207. Nivedita Menon, JNU, Delhi
208. Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor (emeritus), Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Laureate Professor, University of Arizona
209. Odile Henry, Professor, Political Sciences department, Paris 8 University
210. Oindrila Deb, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Basel, Switzerland
211. Om Damani, Professor, IIT Bombay
212. P Ashish Kumar, University of Hyderabad.
213. P R K Rao, Retired Professor, IIT Kanpur
214. P. K Abdul Rahiman, University of Madras, Chennai
215. P. Naveen kumar , Research Scholar, University of Hyderabad.
216. Pablo A. Ruffino, PhD Student, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
217. Pallavi Rao, PhD Candidate, Indiana University-Bloomington
218. Paolo Rapisarda, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of
Southampton
219. Parswa Nath, Senior Research Fellow, TIFR Hyderabad
220. Partho Sarothi Ray, Associate professor, IISER Kolkata
221. Patricia Gruben, Associate Professor (retired), School for the Contemporary Arts,
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Canada
222. Paula Rocha, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Porto - Portugal
223. Peishi Cheng, PhD candidate, Caltech, California, US
224. Pradip Kumar Datta, JNU
225. Prajit K Basu, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Centre for Neural and Cognitive
Science, Centre for Knowledge Culture and Innovation Studies, University of Hyderabad
226. Prajwel Joseph, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
227. Prashant Usha Vijaykumar, MA Student, TISS Mumbai
228. Pravabati Chingangbam, IIA Bangalore
229. Praveen Singh, Research Student
230. Preeti Kharb, Reader, NCRA-TIFR, Pune.
231. Pritam Singh, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
232. Probal Dasgupta, Retired Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
233. Procheta C.V. Mallik, Trustee and Principal Scientist, Innovation and Science
Promotion Foundation, Bangalore, India
234. Prof Ashok Kumar Turuk, NIT Rourkela
235. Prof Diego Napp, Centre of Research and Development in Mathematics and
Applications, University of Aveiro, Portugal
236. Prof Dr. Ralf Meyer, Mathematisches Institut, Universitat Gottingen
237. Prof Gangadharan Menon, Rachana Sansad College, Mumbai
238. Prof Jacob Tharu, Retired Professor, EFLU Hyderabad
239. Prof Shukla Swant, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi
240. Prof. Deepak Malghan, IIM Bangalore
241. Prof. Jugal Verma, Professor of Mathematics, IIT Bombay
242. Prof. Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton
243. Prof. Sandeep K Shukla, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT
Kanpur
244. Prof. Sudhir Ghorpade, IIT Bombay
245. Prof. Sujatha Surepally, HOD, Sociology, Satavahana University
246. Prof. Thomas Kailath, Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford
University
247. Prof.Mohan Rao, recently retired from JNU.
248. Prosenjit Das, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Space Science and
Technology, Trivandrum.
249. Proshant Chakraborty, Independent Researcher, Mumbai
250. Proteep Mallik, Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
251. Pujita Guha, JNU, New Delhi
252. Purandar Bhaduri, IIT Guwahati
253. R Azhagarasan, Lecturer, Department of English, University of Madras
254. R Srinivasan, Chennai Mathematical Institute
255. R. Ramakumar, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
256. Rachel Sieder, CIESAS, Mexico City
257. Rahul Basu, Goa
258. Rahul De, Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University
259. Rahul Menon, TISS, Hyderabad
260. Rahul Pandey, ex-faculty and presently visiting faculty - IIM Lucknow; ex-faculty - IIT
Bombay
261. Rahul Siddharthan, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
262. Rajiv Velicheti, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Hyderabad
263. Raju Chalwadi, IIT Bombay
264. Ram Puniyani, Activist, Mumbai
265. Ramchandra Phawade, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad.
266. Ramesh Bairy T S, IIT Bombay
267. Ravi Chalwadi, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
268. Ravi Kunjwal, Postdoctoral Researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Canada.
269. Ravi Vijaya Satya, Bioinformatics Scientist, California, USA
270. Ravichandran Bathran, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of
Madras
271. Ravinder Kumar Banyal, Reader, Indian institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore.
272. Resmi Lekshmi, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum.
273. Reva Yunus, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Azim Premji University,
Bengaluru
274. Richa Gupta, Research Scholar, CSSSC, Kolkata
275. Rita Kothari, Professor, Ashoka University
276. Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Iconology and Symbology at Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
277. Ronak M Soni, Stanford University
278. Ronnie Sebastian, IIT Bombay
279. Rossi D’Souza, Research Student, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education -
TIFR
280. Ruchi Shevade, Eklavya.
281. Rupali Samuel, Independent Researcher, New Delhi.
282. S Anand, Navayana
283. S Sheerazuddin, Associate Professor, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai
284. S. Akshay, IIT Bombay
285. S. debbarma, professional officer,ANU, Ex Scientist govt of India
286. S.P. Rajaguru, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India
287. Saientan Bag, Postdoctoral Fellow, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
288. Samantak Das, Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
289. Samir Gandesha, Director, Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, BC Canada
290. Sandeep Krishna, Associate Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore
291. Sandeep Pandey, Activist and (former) Visiting Faculty at IIT-Kanpur,
IIM-Ahmedabad, IIT-BHU
292. Sandip Varkey George, IISER Pune, India
293. Sanjay Jhingan, International College of Liberal Arts, YGU, Yamanashi, Japan
294. Sanjay Katheria, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
295. Sanjit Chatterjee, Associate Professor, IISc, Bangalore
296. Sanjukta Poddar, PhD Student, University of Chicago
297. Sannaki Munna (ASA-UoH), Research Scholar, University of Hyderabad.
298. Santos Kumar Das, NIT Rourkela, Odisha
299. Saptarshi Mandal, Assistant Professor of Law, Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat
300. Sarayu Menon, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
301. Sarbajaya Kundu, Research Scholar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Mumbai
302. Sasanka Roy, Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
303. Satish Deshpande, Professor, University of Delhi
304. Satyaki Mazumder, IISER Kolkata
305. Satyendra Mishra, Associate Professor, NIFT Kanpur
306. Saumia P S, JINR, Dubna
307. Saurav Islam, IISc, Bangalore
308. Sayantani Bhattacharyya (National Institute of Science Education and Research,
Bhubaneshwar)
309. Seema Saha Poddar, service
310. Shah Alam Khan, Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of
Medical Sciences, New Delhi
311. Shalini Bhattacharya, IISER Tirupati.
312. Sharmila Sreekumar, IIT Bombay
313. Shaunna Rodrigues, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
314. Shekhar Research Scholar, UoH, Hyderabad.
315. Sheshan P, MS Student, IIT Madras
316. Shilpaa Anand, BITS Pilani - Hyderabad Campus
317. Shiva Shankar, Chennai Mathematical Institute
318. Shruti Sharma, Research Scholar, CSSSC, Kolkata
319. Siddharth Joshi, FPM, IIM Bangalore
320. Sivarani Thirupathi, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore,
India
321. Smt. Prithvi Pothupogu, NIT, Warangal
322. Sneha Visakha, Lawyer and Researcher
323. Solomon Benjamin, IIT-Madras (2010).
324. Somnath Waghmare , Research Scholar , TISS , Mumbai .
325. Soumya Datta, Faculty of Economics, South Asian University, New Delhi.
326. Soundarya Iyer, London School of Economics
327. Sourabh Wade, Researcher, IIT Bombay
328. Souvik Mandal, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology &
Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, USA.
329. Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Bard College, New York
330. Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan, PhD Student, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
and alumnus of IITK
331. Subhashis Banerjee, IIT Delhi
332. Subhojoy Gupta, Assistant Professor, IISc Bangalore.
333. Subodh Kunwer, PhD Scholar, Delhi University
334. Suchetana Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Literature and Theatre, SSLA, Pune
335. Suchetana Chatterjee, Presidency University
336. Sujatha Subramanian, PhD Candidate, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
The Ohio State University
337. Sukhendu Mehrotra, Chennai Mathematical Institute
338. Sukruta Alluri, Research Scholar, CSSSC, Kolkata
339. Sumathi Rao, Professor, Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
340. Sumati Surya, Prof Raman Research Institute
341. Sumeet Mhaskar, Associate Professor, Jindal School of Government and Public
Policy
342. Sumeru Hazra, Tata institute of fundamental research
343. Sumit Haldar, IISc Bangalore
344. Sumit Kumar, Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics,
Hannover
345. Sumit R Das, Professor, University of Kentucky / Adjunct Professor, TIFR
346. Sunil Yadav, Ph.D Scholar, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai
347. Supratik Chakraborty, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
IIT Bombay
348. Supratim Sengupta, IISER Kolkata
349. Supurna Dasgupta, PhD student, University of Chicago
350. Suresh Devashayam, Professor of Bioengineering, Christian Medical College
351. Suresh Govindarajan, IIT Madras
352. Suryakant Waghmore, Associate Professor, Sociology, IIT Bombay
353. Susie Tharu, Retired Professor, EFLU Hyderabad
354. Sutanoya Chakraborty, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore
355. Suvankur Sukul, PhD student, UChicago
356. Suvrat Raju, Associate Professor, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research
357. Swadheenananda Pattanayak, Institute of Mathematics and Applications,
Bhubaneswar
358. Swapnil Khandekar, Alumni IIT-M, IIM-C
359. T Pradeep Chakravarthy, Research Scholar, University of Hyderabad
360. T R Govindarajan, Chennai Mathematical Institute.
361. T. Jayaraman, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
362. T. V. H. Prathamesh, Universitat Innsbruck
363. Tanujit Biswas, IISc Bangalore
364. Tapan Kumar Mandal, Deputy Librarian, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
365. Tathagata Sengupta, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
366. Tejas Harad, Copy Editor, Economic and Political Weekly
367. Tsering Thargay, Sikkim University
368. Tyler W. Williams, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
369. Ujithra Ponniah, Assistant Professor, TISS, Hyderabad.
370. Uliya Yashtala, Musician, US
371. Urmila Bhirdikar SNU
372. Usha Shankar, Principal Consultant, NMSWorks Software Pvt Ltd
373. V S Sunder, Retired Professor, IMSc Chennai
374. Vaibhav Kumar, IIT Kanpur Alumnus (MTech Mechanical Engineering, 2013)
375. Vaibhav Vaish, Alumni, IIT Kanpur (BTech EE, 2004)
376. Vaibhav Wasnik, Indian Institute of Technology, Goa
377. Valerian Rodrigues, Department of Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
Canada
378. Vanessa Assumma, PhD Student, Italy
379. Vasantharajan G, PhD student, IIT Madras
380. Vasudev Dehalwar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MANIT,
Bhopal, India
381. Vasudha Sawalker, PhD Student, Goa University
382. Vasvi Oza, Artist, Bengaluru
383. Veena Naregal, Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi
384. Venkata Sai Kiran Yatagiri, Masters in Mechanical Engineering, SIUE, USA
385. Venu Madhav Govindu, IISc Bengaluru
386. Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Author and Human Rights Activist, New Delhi
387. Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, CEO, Ekgaon Technologies, New Delhi
388. Vikas Bajpai, CSMCH, JNU
389. Vinod John, IISc Bangalore
390. Virendra Sule, IIT Bombay
391. Vivek Kumar Mehta, Alumnus, IIT Kanpur
392. Vivek Kumar, Centre for the Study of Social Systems/ Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India.
393. Wandana Sonalkar, Retired Professor, Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
394. Wenceslaus Mendes, Goa
395. Winnifred Louis, Professor, School of Psychology, University of Queensland,
Australia
396. Y Srinivasa Rao, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bharathidasan
University, Thiruchirapalli
397. Yashodhan M, BS+MS student, IIT Madras
398. Yashpal Jogdand, Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi
399. Yashwant Zagade, PhD Scholar, TISS, Mumbai.
400. Zoya Vallari, Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics Department, Caltech, California, US