Statement In Solidarity With The Ongoing Movement At University Of Hyderabad

By Concerned Citizens

25 March, 2016
Countercurrents.org

1. We, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn police action in and around University of Hyderabad, from the 22 of March onwards. We criticize extreme police brutality, lathi charge, threats of rape and verbal abuse done to the students and faculty members of UoH.

2. We demand to know the whereabouts of the faculty members and students who were made to disappear on the 22nd March. We condemn the false charges under which they are rumoured to have been booked. We condemn the police attack on students preparing food, the detaining of students for ‘cooking in a public space’ and the insinuation that they had to be taught a lesson because they might have been cooking beef!

3. We condemn the UoH administration’s cutting off of water, electricity, internet and food to the campus residents. Nothing, no trumped up charge merits this kind of denial of basic necessities, and this action taken by the administration and aided by the police is CASTEISM, whereby the authorities feel justified to ‘teaching’ dissenting voices a lesson, in the manner of feudal upper caste landlords.

4. We demand a response from the Telangana state government, which has supplied police to meet the nefarious demands of tainted and on-leave VC Appa Rao. A government which was formed on the demands of equality of the disadvantaged sections of society must hang its head in shame due to its complicity with the casteist UoH admin.

5. VC Appa Rao Podile assumed office on the 22nd of March even though he has been booked under the SC ST Atrocities Act. Instead of arresting him, the police aided him in postponing the Academic Council meeting and shutting down university amenities. Appa Rao must go! The judicial probe and the MHRD probe against him be concluded impartially and at the earliest, and those responsible for Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder punished.

6. We also condemn the national media’s silence over this state of emergency imposed on UoH, demand that the UoH community’s voice be heard and adequately represented, as the gravity of the situation merits. This media blackout reeks of casteism and complicity with Hindtutva forces, and must be resisted by all means.

7. Casteism is the most deeply entrenched reality of modern India. Our public spaces, universities, and academia are as much a part of it, as our institutions of marriage, dining and religion. We urge the academic community in India and abroad to support UoH in its fight against casteism and fascism in the same manner in which it has supported elite institutions in the past.

Jai Bhim!

1. Ananya Chatterjee, Haldia Govt. College, WB
2. Suman Nath, Haldia Govt College, WB
3. Ubai Rehman
4. Javid Ahmad Lone
5. Veena naregal Nidhin S R
6. Jenny Rowena, Delhi University
7. Samata Biswas, Bethune College, Kolkata
8. Donvan Jailsing Nayaka, Ambedkar Phule Study Circle, IIT Bombay
9. Anindya Sengupta
10. Tara Amrapally Basumataray
11. BRP Bhaskar, Chennai
12. Anita Cherain
13. Usman Ali
14. Rajat Dutta, CHS, JNU
15. Debarati Das, JNU
16. Anil Tharayith Varghese, Delhi
17. V Ramaswamy,CRG, Kolkata
18. Neju George,
19. Muhammad Afsal, Doha, Qatar
20. Shaheen Ahmed, Delhi
21. Iman Mitra, CRG, Kolkata
22. Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, faculty, CSSSC.
23. Ranabir Samaddar, Distinguished Chair, CRG.
24. Dipyaman Adhikary, MASUM
25. Asmita Das, Jadavpur University
26. Neeraja Sasikumar, Kerala
27. Ann George, EFLU, Hyderabad
28. Aby Abraham, CUK, Kerala
29. Mithilesh Kumar, CRG.
30. Madhura Chakraborty, Goa
31. Boshisattava Kar, UCT
32. Premangshu Ray
33. Saikat Ghosh, University of Delhi
34. Nirjhar Bose
35. Ketaki Chowkhani, TISS Mumbai
36. Blaise Joseph
37. Anwesha Barari Chatterjee
38. Richa Gupta
39. Bonojit Hussain, Assam,
40. Mohamed Jansher Khan, TISS Hyd
41. Loiya Leima Oinam
42. Partha Pratim Barua, delhi.
43. Bhargav Rani
44. Tarique Anwar
45. Rochelle Pinto
46. Indranil Dutta
47. Salim Divakaran
48. Gurpreet Sidhu
49. Prabhat Jha, Patna University
50. Sudipto Basu, jadavpur University
51. Paromita Patronobish, Delhi
52. Chinnaiyan Lakshmanan
53. Kamal Rajbangshi, Assam Engineering College
54. Krittika Mondal, JNU
55. Somdatta Bhattacharya, Pilani
56. Prakash K ray, bargad.org
57. Shipra Nigam, JNU
58. MP Dhaneesh, JNU
59. Mahaprajna Nayak, Alumni UoH
60. Ranjith Thankappan, EFLU
61. Veena Vimala Mani, IIT Chennai
62. N Manohar Reddy, EFLU
63. Muhammaed Afzal P, EFLU
64. Sherin BS, EFLU
65. Maitryei Karnoor, Bangalore
66. Bhuvi Gupta, Delhi
67. Rini Dasgupta, Bangalore
68. Narayan M Sankaran, EFLU
69. Santhosh Kumar Sakhinala, Hyderabad
70. Deepti Sreeram, New Delhi
71. Brinda Bose, New Delhi
72. Rakesh Kumar Singh,
73. Debaditya Bhattacharya, University of Calcutta
74. Feba Rasheed
75. Shameem Thalapurath
76. Ganpat Teli
77. Riyas Razack
78. Yasmin Majeed
79. Paula Banerjee, Professor, Calcutta University
80. Sucharita Sengupta, CRG
81. Snehashish Mitra, CRG
82. Ayesha Kidwai
83. Vinay Sarawagi
84. Richa Sophie Srishti
85. Vani Mecheril
86. Tarun Bhartiya, Thma U Rangli-Juki (TUR) Shillong
87. Nalini Taneja
88. Nandini Rao
89. Vani Mecheril
90. Vijay Kumar Yadavendu
91. Vebhuti Duggal
92. Lalit Rajkumar
93. Zafar Ullah
94. Indu Chandrasekhar
95. Reena Ashem
96. Kesang Kinzom Thakur
97. Parni Ray
98. Naresh Prerna
99. Azhar Uddin Sahaji Chaitanya, Ambedkar University, Delhi
100. Suvir Kaul
101. Tawheed N Baba, Karnatak University Dharawad
102. Usha Aravamudhan Saxena
103. Riz Khan
104. Arunima S Mukherjee
105. Sucharita Sen
106. Karthick Narayanan
107. Anasua Bhattacharya
108. Abhirami Sriram, Class of ’99, Department of English, HCU
109. Anand Chandu Lal
110. Rajorshi Das
111. Malavika Rao
112. Ka Josh
113. Hany Babu, DU
114. Kanika Katyal
115. Samuel Asir Raj
116. Andi Asmita
117. Babasaheb Kambale
118. Arindam Sengupta
119. Rina Ramdev
120. Cynthia Stephen
121. Anupam Saikia
122. Rosmin Mathew
123. Caroline Osella
124. Aritra Chakraborti
125. Bharat Iyer
126. Arifa Vanimel
127. Vinita Teresa
128. Sonia Vijayakumar
129. Chandra Sivakumar
130. Tamoghna Halder, University of California, Davis
131. Rowena Robinson
132. Nayana Thankachan
133. Gopal Pradhan
134. Shruti Sareen, Department of English, Delhi University
135. Atig Ghosh
136. Satyadeep Deep
137. Mahammud Yusuf
138. Sanjeev Sreedharan
139. Ajith Cherian
140. Kunal Chattopadhyay, Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
141. TN Uma Devi
142. Priyamvada Gopal, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
143. Subash Jeyan
144. Sharmadip Basu, Azim Premji University
145. Riz Khan
146. Bindu Menon, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi
147. Kiran Tandon
148. Rucha Satoor
149. Arjab Roy, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
150. Dr Rashmi Varma, University of Warwick, UK
151. Sunil Joseph
152. Lata Panicker
153. Sanghita Sen
154. Shabnam Surita, Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University
155. Atrei Chatterjee, Department of English, Jadavpur University
156. Shruti Sinha
157. Ritika Sahu
158. Abhigna
159. Tarit Chowdhuri
160. Vivek Lakshmanan
161. Kanupriya Kaikeya
162. Parul Bhardwaj
163. Ishita Dey
164. Arnab Deb
165. Stalina HBS
166. Madhurilata Basu
167. Marva Marva
168. Asima Das, Serampore College, Kolkata
169. Indrani Pal
170. Sithanthi Alfred
171. Anuradha Kapoor
172. Rajesh Acharya
173. Apeksha Priyadarshini
174. Minu Philipose
175. Bidisha Chatterjee
176. Arunlekha Sengupta
177. Ashish Awasthi
178. Imran Kazi
179. Ravindran Daniel
180. Kabir Chattopadhyay, Trinity College, Dublin
181. Sandra Eliswa
182. Premankur Biswas
183. Chetan Anand
184. Kripal Singh Mandloi
185. Ratul Ghosh
186. Shirsho Dasgupta
187. Garima Gupta
188. Purna Bannerjee
189. Sreyashi Ray
190. Shrabani Mukherjee
191. Oyndrila Sarkar
192. Somdutto Bhattacharyya
193. Rose Sebastian
194. Shrayragi Israni
195. Sharmila Purkayastha
196. Shyamal Bhattacharya
197. Edwin Aleixo Braganza
198. Sherna Dastur
199. Pratyay Bannerjee
200. Nanda Joylal
201. Rekha Abel
202. NP Shameer
203. Svenja Svensson
204. Sharada Vinod
205. Soma KP
206. Anjantha Subramanian
207. Sreekrishnan KP
208. Saburi Pandita
209. Zia Mydin
210. Gurveen Kaur
211. Vinutha Mallya
212. Radhakrishnan Govindan
213. Tejaswini Niranjana
214. G Anu Arunima
215. Gayatri Chatterjee
216. Sumanta Banerjee
217. Jayasree Subramanian
218. Manoj Chahil, Delhi University
219. Neepa Majumdar
220. Koonal Duggal
221. Vidita Priyadarshini, University of Delhi
222. Rajan Kurai Krishnan
223. Sahana Basavapatna, Advocate, Bangalore
224. Anoop Sukumaran, Thailand
225. Praskanva Sinharay
226. Manshi Asher
227. Sumit Mahar